Name a musician or artist whom you genuinely mourn

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.

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

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.

Ian Curtis, Joe Strummer and Bowie

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.

Liam og o'flynn. Liam Clancy.

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Chris Cornell

Still the only celebrity death to really hit me hard.

Same.

Felt like a friend I never met.

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

The list is long, that's just several

Scott Hutchinson.

That was a real kick in the stomach.