musicians(or other famous people) who died too early .

Funnily enough I was listening to an interview with his brother the other day. Does cage fighting, amongst other things.

A sad thread

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mozart fell ill in 1791 while in Prague for the 6th September (my birthday) premiere of his opera La clemenza di Tito, composed the same year on commission for the coronation of the Emperor.

He died aged 35 in December 1791, a few weeks short of his 36th birthday.

Franz Schubert

Richie Valens.

Could be here a while..

Godber was played by Richard Beckinsale.

Who's delicious daughter still treads the boards..

John Keats.

kenny was right, far too many to mention. The 27 club alone has got loads in it.

George Butterworth - Composer, best known for "Banks Of Green Willow" and Percy Jeeves, cricketer; he was a fast-medium bowler with a bowling average in the low 20s and a  batting average about the same.  Jeeves was the person whose surname PG Wodehouse used for his famous butler.
George Butterworth and Percy Jeeves were both killed in action in the Battle Of The Somme, in 1916, a few days aprt.

Schubert coming down the Bier Keller ?

our own  names will end up in this thread,

Not too sure about that!

Gerry Rafferty(baker street)

Jimmy hendrix
Bob marley
Richey Edwards
Bon scott
Amy whinehouse

Bob Marley

Joan Rivers was only just getting going...

Rafferty was 63

Hedley Verity

Phil Lynott and Gary Moore

Abraham, Martin and John.

Rory Gallagher

63 is not old

Gary Moore

John denver(annies song)

I've mentioned the King of Strings already, cmat

Forgot the king Mr PRESLEY

Name someone famous who had a great talent but sadly died before the world got the full benefits of their talent.


So what did the alchoholic recluse have left to share to the world?

Mark Bolan

... and Gary was King, even if his fan club only have him as Lord of the Strings.

His talent to drink

JFK

Billie holiday.

Ayrton Senna(grand prix driver)

Fred Archer

Who would win top award for services to the T-shirt industry for dying at the right time?
Che Guevara
Jim Morrisson
Bob Marley

a super talent from the world of snooker.. paul hunter would have been a multi world champion by now. what a player and sadly missed

John White
David Rocastle
Ben Hollioake
Ivo Van Damme
Lillian Board

Malcolm Owen
Phil Lynott

Arkie Whiteley
Katrin Cartlidge

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Jeff Healey

Freddie of course but also Amy Winehouse.

I only know one song, but it was very memorable!

Falco

"Amadeus! Amadeus!"

ian curtis
stuart adamson (big country)
obvious, but Kurt cobain
elliot smith

guy de maupassant - greatest short story writer of all time

and hemingway

Eva Cassidy - great voice and great musician. Thankfully there is plenty on youtube to keep her fans happy.

phil ochs - how could i forget when i wrote a song about him.

Sandy Denny
Charlie Parker
Mary Rand
Clifford Brown
Paul Kossoff
James Dean
Kurt Cobain

Mary Rand is still alive

Do you mean Lillian Board?

I did mean Lillian Board,my apologies.

Hank Williams

john lennon nap

Jesus of Nazareth.Only just got going, sad loss.

Sevy...truly sad as such a good guy

Princess Grace of Monnaco

Princess Dianna

Roy Orbison

George HarrisonAndy, Maurice and RobinGibb

Michael Whacko Jacko

James Hunt

Kirsty MacColl

Sorry if these were already mentioned but couldn't be @rsed to wade through four pages.

AP change your option to 40 posts a page, that cuts it down to 2 pages.

Thanks for good advice as always.

That's a bit like changing your odometer from Kms to miles.

Far quicker to skim over 2 pages of 40 posts than 4 pages of 20 posts.

Mr Logistics.

I always get my pizza cut into 6 slices, as I could never eat 8.

There's a girl group in the top 20 at the moment called G.R.L. One of them was found dead at the weekend. Coroner says it was suicide. Was also a contestant on X Factor USA. Only 25 years old. RIP.

Ronnie Van Zant.....

Sadly, many of the above contributed, in no small amount to their demise.

Some others may well have peaked already, for a variety of reasons.

Several of those mentioned, probably through my own shortcomings, I've never heard of.

So I'll just add a few who may, or may not, feature in the above categories, or have already been mentioned:

Wilfred Owen,
Alan Turing,
Tupac Shakur,
Sylvia Plath,
Ian Curtis,
Marvin Gaye,
Lilian Board,
Ayrton Senna,
Jim Clark,
Norman Brown.... and a few others..

Frederic Chopin for me. Died in 1849 aged 39 probably from Tuberculosis.

No, he was from Warsaw.

FFS I actually laughed at that.

Thanks for the information, didn't know that

Try this for size (and I don't mean the young lady although that would be nice)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPcy2h-H9E

I once depped for an awful band playing at Thamesmead Working Mens Club - and we died before the end of the third number.

One of those "keep the engine running" gigs.

Fack me, Thamemead, on a par with Canning Town.

At least we had The Bridge House (famous pub, if you didn't know it)

Thamesmead is the @rsehole of S.E. London, and it has no famous pubs.  It's probably got some infamous ones but I never hung around long enough to find out.

I've seen Stevie play

Timothy Evans

.. also his wife Beryl and daughter Geraldine.

Thursday 11th September 10:15pm bbc4

10 Rillington Place .............. which was a short distance away from Kensington Palace.

Hi c-c,

Speaking of which - we 're still waiting to find out what you were doing on your Royal Festival Hall thread!

Freddie Mercury a truly shocking omission

mysterious musical genius returns

FM has already been mentioned

Lowell George ( Little Feat )

I appreciate that the OP has pointed out that John Lennon was "of the Beatles"

Tim & Jeff Buckley

grant McLennan- go betweens

aren't the London boys dead ?

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    10 Sep 14 23:20   


Fack me, Thamemead, on a par with Canning Town.

At least we had The Bridge House (famous pub, if you didn't know it)

Memories!

Saw Iron Maiden (with Paul Di Anno on vocals) and the Cockney Rejects and a whole bunch of other bands lost in rock n' roll history!

Arthur Jones

Judee Sill

Bix Beiderbecke 28

Robert young- primal scream

rogerthebutler
11 Sep 14 08:13   
Memories!
Saw Iron Maiden (with Paul Di Anno on vocals) and the Cockney Rejects and a whole bunch of other bands lost in rock n' roll history!

Remus Down Boulevard were still playing about 7 years ago in The Albert pub in Plaistow, which is now an asian supermarket.

River Phoenix (August 23rd, 1970 - October 31st, 1993).

Natalie Wood (July 20th, 1938 - November 29th, 1981).

which prompted the sick joke, what wood doesn't float?

or is it which wood?

Stevie Mariott (January 30th, 1947 - April 20th, 1991).

Johnny Owen boxer died aged 24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Owen

Steve Marriott seemed a great bloke as well as a fantastic singer, a very good interview with of all people Stanley Unwin at his side on youtube denonstrates that.

Howard Winstone boxer died aged 61

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Winstone

life story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risen_(film)

Johnny Owen, well remembered C-C, great boxer but with a thin skull, sadly.

Jimi Hendrix (November 27th 1942 - September 18th 1970)  - Hey Joe -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpkDdLZGg30

Bradley Stone - boxer from Canning Town, who died after 'feeling unwell' the day after a fight. 

His mum would have beaten Natalie Wood in a Natalie Wood look-a-like contest, but that's another story.

On the news this morning.

The Primal Scream guitarist whose name I've forgotten, aged 49.

Rudi Pika

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    12 Sep 14 10:07   


On the news this morning.

The Primal Scream guitarist whose name I've forgotten, aged 49

'Throb' Young

A lesser light in the music world but still much missed

Chris Acland, drummer with Lush. 30 years old

Another drummer sad to say - Michael Lee who played with Page & Plant in the 90's. Great talent.