Guitarist Steve Cropper has died, aged 84. His signature sound was what made Stax Records the cream of the crop for soul music in the 60...

photo: Yann Orhan Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78 in London. She had one of the greatest voices in moder...

Recording engineer and musician Steve Albini only made to 61. He died from a heart attack at his home in Chicago on May 7. He was the pro...

Guitarist Sturgis Nikides succumbed to an agressive form of cancer on April 9. He was 66. He started out in the NYC punk in the late Sev...

photo: Gerald Jenkins From one Can vocalist to another: Malcolm "Desse" Mooney has posted a poem for Damo Suzuki on Can...

Former Can singer Damo Suzuki succumbed to colon cancer yesterday. He was 74. He never trained as a vocalist and made things up on the s...

Canadian guitarist Robbie Robertson , best known for his work with the highly influential quintet The Band , has died. He was 80 years old...

Singer and guitarist Tom Verlaine , the frontman of Television , has died after a brief illness. He was 73. With his instantly recognizabl...

Guitar maestro Jeff Beck has died from contracting bacterial meningitis, aged 78. He was the guitarist's guitarist, a rocker who beca...

Tape Op has an in depth article about the recently deceased Moog synth pioneer Herb Deutsch . Without him electronic music would have ta...

Gary Brooker , the singer and pianist of influential English band Procol Harum , has succumbed to cancer. He was 76. This obituary posted ...

Singer and actor Meat Loaf , who put the boom in bombast with his Bat Out of Hell album, has died. He was 74. Born Michael Lee Aday he b...

Fifty-one years ago Jimi Hendrix died at the Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill in London. He was only 27. Tons of book...

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts , whose groove made the band rock and swing since he joined them in 1963, has died. Besides laying d...

Dusty Hill , the rock solid bass player of ZZ Top , has died in his sleep, aged 72. His fellow band members Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons...

Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain , best known as a member of the New York Dolls , succumbed to cancer aged 69. The news was confirmed on his offi...

Gerry Marsden , leader of Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers , is dead at 78. He scored huge hits in the early Sixties with songs li...

Leslie West , founding member of the pioneering hardd-hitting blues rock band Mountain is dead at 75. He suffered a heart attack, which p...

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Spencer Davis , bandleader with the UK R&B band the Spencer Davis Group , has died in hospital yeste...

Fifty years ago Jimi Hendrix died at the Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill in London. He was only 27. Tons of books ha...