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Name a musician or artist whom you genuinely mourn

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All this outpouring about Doris Day, she had never occurred to me in any way. I thought she was already dead.

Let's give this thread a time-lapse of, say, 2 years.

What poet, musician or artist do you mourn, who made a real and meaningful impact on your life?

My first nominee is Leonard Cohen. Someone gave me 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' for my birthday when I was twenty, and it changed my life.

I also nominate Séamus Ennis. The only man who played the pipes whom I could not bring myself to hate, quite the opposite. He led a sad life, and he died too young in a mobile-home in North Dublin, despite having already established himself as a giant of irish traditional music.

Who do you really miss, long after their passing?

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Cryptopagan

JupiterKid wrote: »

David Bowie...massive influence on me in my later teenage years. His best work was long behind him.

He released a superb album just days before he died.

w/s/p/c/

When I was a teenager in the 90's during my gangster rap phase, was gutted to hear about Eazy-E passing away. Was a fan of NWA and his solo stuff.

Also as someone mentioned earlier, was sad to hear about Adam Yauch (MCA) from the Beastie Boys, had always hoped to see them live one day having never previously had the chance to. Really liked their last album that was released before he died.

Farawayhome

You may like Bowie's music but his behaviour with underage girls should mean you don't really mourn him. Same goes with Elvis. Those taken in their prime I'm more sympathetic to.

[Deleted User]

Keith Flint. Being a huge Prodigy fan since the mid 90's he was obviously a big part of my life. Music was what I turned to in order to get through the days.

Pyr0

Chris Cornell. I still can't believe he's gone.

Dimebag Darrell is another one, taken way too early in such a horrific way.

Chuck Shuldiner, a genius of a man.

sbsquarepants

Freddy Mercury
Kurt Cobain
Robin Williams

Plopsu

Zappa and Lemmy. They made the world more interesting as well as music.

Gimme A Pound

Deleted User wrote: »

There's something kind of rock and roll of dying of a heroin overdose at 27..

Ah jeez and you tell someone else to cop on? That's an unbelievably teenage thing to say.

Farawayhome wrote: »

You may like Bowie's music but his behaviour with underage girls should mean you don't really mourn him. Same goes with Elvis. Those taken in their prime I'm more sympathetic to.

Either you've a problem with inappropriate behaviour towards minors or you don't - whether the person was in their prime or not.

barney shamrock

Randy Rhoads, Ozzys first guitarist who died in a plane crash.
What he was doing on guitar in 1980 was decades ahead of his time.
Such a tragedy he died so young.
Stevie Ray Vaughan was the closest thing to Hendrix I ever heard, sad that he's gone.
And Freddie Mercury was just the best frontman of all time.
It still saddens me that he's no longer with us.

Comhrá

Louis Stewart. Arguably Ireland's best ever guitarist.

[Deleted User]

Mariana Clean Sunspot wrote: »

Ah jeez and you tell someone else to cop on? That's an unbelievably teenage thing to say.

I must be in a state of arrested development or something..
Probably down to all the same bands still knocking around playing the same songs..

pc7

George Michael and Freddie

gammygils

Ian Curtis, Joe Strummer and Bowie

Tabnabs

Deleted User wrote: »

That's one of the greatest lines of English song ever written. But the thing that always struck me about him was when you saw him being interviewed it was almost a spiritual experience. The sheer humility. He spoke a profound spiritual truth.

The line is variously attributed to both Groucho Marx and Spike Milligan. But safe to safe it isn't a Cohen original.

[Deleted User]

Tabnabs wrote: »

The line is variously attributed to both Groucho Marx and Spike Milligan. But safe to safe it isn't a Cohen original.

Ah, they said something similar..

Farawayhome

Mariana Clean Sunspot wrote: »

Ah jeez and you tell someone else to cop on? That's an unbelievably teenage thing to say.

Either you've a problem with inappropriate behaviour towards minors or you don't - whether the person was in their prime or not.

I should have put a space between sentences. Seperate issues i was discussing.

hatrickpatrick

It's already been more than a year and I'm still devastated by Avicii (Tim Bergling). No artist in the last decade has meant more to me emotionally or influenced me more as a musician.

I think when it comes to artists like him who were still actively putting out new music, as opposed to those who died in old age and had already retired, it hits a tiny bit harder - because, in my case for instance, I'll be out in a club at night time and one of his songs will come on, and at some point I'll feel this gut-punch feeling where it suddenly hits me, "we're never going to hear new music from this guy ever again".
They're releasing at least one posthumous album of his and after that, there are still a lot of tracks he debuted at music festivals in the last few years which aren't on it, so there may be more down the road - but as the productions have to be finished by others, you can hear when you listen to them that they're missing at least some of that Avicii spark.

So it's probably not the fairest comparison with all of the incredible musicians who've died in the last few years who were retired and finished making new music anyway. Avicii's death was a huge emotional blow for his fans in part because he was in the prime of his career and we were all massively looking forward to the three albums he was known to be in the middle of writing. It's hard to be looking into summer weather, long nights, and parties, without remembering that for many years that summer party atmosphere was entirely defined by the genre of dance music he created.

loyatemu

Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys - died far too young.

+1 on Steve Irwin

CalamariFritti

Farawayhome wrote: »

You may like Bowie's music but his behaviour with underage girls should mean you don't really mourn him. Same goes with Elvis. Those taken in their prime I'm more sympathetic to.

Ah go away with that sh1te

Farawayhome

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Ah go away with that sh1te

You think sleeping with underage girls is fine or what's the deal?

jelutong

Liam og o'flynn. Liam Clancy.

Sonics2k

Chester Bennington, singer for Linkin Park.
I'd rarely mourn the death of a singer, but his suicide really hit me harder than I thought when I first read it.

While the band is more known for their heavy rock songs, the man is imo the Freddie of his generation. His vocal range was mind-blowing, his stage presence incredible and was known for just being such a nice and caring man.

Terry Pratchett would be another, a truly gifted and funny author. I get really bad insomnia and have done since I was about 9 years old, do virtually every night since then I've either read or listened to his books and it helps me sleep.

Undividual

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Chris Cornell

Still the only celebrity death to really hit me hard.

Same.

Felt like a friend I never met.

Oink

Luke Kelly, as mentioned by someone else. Dadgummit he was too young and too good.

Robin Williams. I have no idea why, I wasn’t even a huge fan at the time. I just thought it was so sad that he would kill himself, though I totally understand it now.

Hamsterchops

John Lennon, George Harrison, David Bowie, Ian Dury, Walter Becker ....

The list is long, that's just several

MarkY91

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Cop on to yourself..

I was like 12....

dirkmeister

Scott Hutchinson.

That was a real kick in the stomach.

RobMc59

Kirsty McColl

Arghus

Prince.

Still can't believe the guy is dead.

Wabbit Ears

The most profound memories I have of artists dying where it really struck me that a lot of people were genuinely upset for an extended amount of time are Roy Orbison and David Bowie.

I was never a massive fan of either but their deaths stood out to me as just massive outpourings of love for them.

I liked Cobain and it affected a lot of kids my age at the time but the fact he took his own life always... I dunno.. it just made it tragic in a very different way.

My personal greatest losses was Freddie mercury and River Phoenix.

Freddy because he was just amazing.

River because he got me girls...girls used to tell me I looked really like him and that was epic. But then he overdosed and my never met before wingman died. Brandon and Heath, also taken before their time were better actors imho, but I never identified with either of them.