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This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2021.
Guitarist/singer Johnny "Guitar" Watson collapsed and died onstage during a performance in Yokohama, Japan. The cause of death was a heart attack. 1997: English actor Anthony Wheeler died by strangulation while playing Judas Iscariot at a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar in Chalkidiki, Greece. He hanged himself after failing to attach the ...
Suicide by hanging [168] Martin Phillipps The Chills: 61: July 28, 2024: Dunedin, New Zealand: Undisclosed [169] Mick Underwood The Outlaws, The Herd, Episode Six, Quatermass, Gillan: 78: July 28, 2024: Alzheimer's and vascular dementia [170] Joey Gilmore Guitarist for James Brown, Etta James, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, and Little Johnny ...
Joey Molland, guitarist for the group Badfinger, who had continued leading a touring edition of the group decades after other key members had passed on, died Saturday night at age 77. Badfinger ...
The Cryan' Shames are an American garage rock band from Hinsdale, Illinois.Originally known as The Travelers, the band was formed by Tom Doody ("Toad"), Gerry Stone ("Stonehenge"), Dave Purple ("Grape") of The Prowlers, Denny Conroy from Possum River, and Jim Fairs from The Roosters, Jim Pilster ("J.C. Hooke", so named because he was born without a left hand and wore a hook), and Bill Hughes.
Suicide Alan Aldridge Artist and graphic designer: 73: February 17, 2017: Peter Skellern: 69: February 17, 2017: Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall, England: Brain cancer [33] David Yorko Guitarist for Johnny and the Hurricanes: 73: February 17, 2017 "Heartland of Waterville" Emphysema [34] Clyde Stubblefield: 73: February 18, 2017: Madison ...
Doug Hopkins (1993), American songwriter and lead guitarist for the band Gin Blossoms, gunshot [589] Brita Horn (1791), Swedish countess and courtier, drowning [590] Harry Horse (2007), English author, illustrator, cartoonist and musician, stabbed himself 47 times in a murder-suicide [591]
Their subsequent albums floundered, as Molland and Evans alternated between co-operation and conflict in their attempts to revive and capitalise on the Badfinger legacy. Evans died by suicide in 1983 and Gibbins died from a brain aneurysm in 2005, leaving Molland as the classic line-up's only surviving member. Molland continued to tour under ...