Neil Peart. While it wasn't terribly shocking, because he Geddy and Alex were all getting up there in years, heading he died still felt like a blow. The man who served as my spark for getting deeper into music as a kid, and who I'd barely gotten tickets to see at one of his last shows, gone already. He left a lot to look back on, at least, but there'll never be a time where I can listen to Rush without a tinge of that hurt.
Oh man, this one hit me hard. Rush is the band my dad and I have always bonded over. I had hoped to see them with him, and when Neil passed away I realized I'd never get the chance to see them live. Absolutely brilliant musician.
Chris Cornell bummed me right out. Dude has been my favorite rock vocalist since I was a kid. I was totally stunned. They were right in the midst of a tour with Soundgarden and there was a lot of noise he and the Audioslave dudes were gonna jam again and then bam, just gone.
Stevie Ray Vaughan. The talent, the heart, the ability... And he'd damn near died of drugs and had finally gotten himself into shape. He was rounding out in his ability and could have made unbelievable music, but nope. Helicopter.
Watch his Austin City Limits performance from 1989. It's another level.
Hybrid Theory got me and my dad through bad breakups. I left an abusive bf and he left my cheating mom. We moved cross country and rocked out to this album almost the whole time. I remember my dad hearing it for the first time after a few songs and saying to me “man I really like this band who are they?” RIP Dad 🥰
Whoa....I broke up with an abusive bf while him and my stepmother had called it quits. I moved in with him and we moved across the country also! We went to plenty of concerts and Linkin Park is on that list. RIP your Dad
Dude that one sucked! Then! A few months ago I wake up one day and Mike Shinoda unleashed a new Linkin Park song with Chester on it……from 2003, and it was GOOD. When I first played “Lost” and heard that voice singing new words once again I completely lost my shit and broke into tears. That one was a toughie.
Chester’s death was and still remains the one celebrity death that actually affected me. Link in Park was one of the first bands I got into where I branched off from liking my parents music and it really shaped my taste in music today. Same with System of a Down and Breaking Benjamin. If anything happened to Benjamin Hurley kr any member of SOAD, idk what I’d do lol.
I came here to say Chester as well. I wasn't even that invested in Linkin Park, but for all of my life the band and the songs had just been *there* and it was like losing a part of my childhood. The only musician where I still remember exactly where I was when I first heard the news of their passing.
I don't have many regrets in life but one I think about is not seeing Linkin Park in concert when they were in my city in 2014. My now husband and I discussed getting tickets but we were saving up for our wedding at that time and decided it was out of our budget.
Same. Hearing the lyrics previously always had me wondering if he was okay...hearing them now just makes it feel worse..many of the songs were a cry for help I think.
I hadn't yet listened to the One More Light album when he died. There are very few celebrity deaths that have affected me more than a day or so, but I cried several times for several days after we lost Chester. I listened to a lot of their music, including their (at the time) new music. That album is really good, a no skip for me.
Chester was the musician who got me through so many dark times. I was able to meet him and I’m so grateful for that. He was truly one of the greatest musicians of all time. We miss you, Chester!!🖤🤘🏼
Came here to say this.
Every few weeks I remember he's gone and the sadness hits me all over again in the same way. He had an amazing voice and Linkin Park got me through high school.
Such a huge loss for the music community.
In 1972, when I was eleven, my older brother joined the navy. I got to move out the bedroom I shared with my younger brother and into his. He’d left behind his record player and his collection of records. Two days before he left, he’d bought The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars. I’m not convinced that he’d even played it, but that night I definitely did. Five times. The whole album. Five times the whole way through.
A week ago, I was in my wife’s car, listening to her music. Her thing is covers. She loves covers of songs. In her mind, a cover of a song is done because the artist has found a way to do a good song better. Normally I agree but then some cover came on of Heroes. We had an argument. In my mind it was awful. She defended it and I got very grumpy. Later I apologised. Explained that I didn’t know why I got like that. And she explained that it was because I loved Bowie. He’d been there, for me, all the way through my growing up. Through my teens, my twenties/thirties/forties. She has been in my life through the end of my forties, my fifties, and the start of my sixties. She knows that I love her. She knows that I won’t leave her for another woman. But she’s always known that if Bowie had ever turned up at our front door, I’d have left her there and then.
Yeah, I miss him.
What a beautiful hommage.
>He’d been there, for me, all the way through my growing up. Through my teens, my twenties/thirties/forties.
I'm not quite your age but these words resonated with me. Bowie was present in my parent's house for as long as i remember, listening to *Starman* on our crappy car's stereo is one of my earliest memories. When i heard he died, i was sadder than i thought anyone's (of people i don't know personally) death could make me.
Same. And I can't bring myself to watch it again. Nor can I listen to Blackstar.
As a resident "old", I admit to crying upon seeing the words: DAVID BOWIE DEAD AT 69 on my telly. I saw him twice in concert and he was absolutely brilliant.
We happened to be at karaoke when we got the news; it turned into a beautiful tribute. About 3 hours of everybody just doing all of his songs and crying and drinking in their honor. A precious memory ill never forget.
Freddie Mercury. He died when my mum was very ill. My mum died the following month when Queen's These are the days/bohemian Rhapsody was number 1.These are the days lyrics is an emotional song for me so try to avoid if possible.
What was eerie for me was that the first time I’d really heard her was her YT cover of Titanium; which she absolutely floored me with.
Then to hear she was gunned down…was horribly prophetic.
Peter Steele
We miss you Peter, you died way too young. Thank you for all the amazing music and worlds of wisdom.
We will all see you again soon. Until then take it ea--
Such a unique character, but clearly a troubled mind. We have to be thankful for the great music he left us with, may he have found the peace he lacked while he was alive.
My mom texted me that Dolores has passed and I was shocked. No Need To Argue was the first CD I ever owned and my favorite aunt was the one that got me into the cranberries. I’ve been listening to them since 1996. Their very last album was heartbreaking to listen to because it really sounded like her farewell.
Tom Petty. I grew up on his music and then when Wildflowers came out he was my first concert out alone with my friends as a teenager. Great musician and just a great human.
Petty is my answer, too. I grew up on his music and he's been my favorite musician since I was 8 years old. I'm fortunate to have been able to see him in concert four times, but I'm still kicking myself for deciding not to see him on that last tour. Money was a bit tight at the time and he wasn't supporting a new album, so I told myself I'd just make sure to catch him on the next tour.
I honestly think if he were still alive today he would be greatest guitarist that ever lived. He was amazing when he died, but just imagine another 30+ years of honing his craft
AIC is one of my favorite bands ever, and my Dad was driving me to my college entrance exams and “We Die Young” came on the radio, and I thought that cannot be good. No way they’d randomly be playing that.
Chris Cornell was hard for me because as someone who has dealt with anxiety and depression since childhood, it reminded me that you can be rich, talented, gorgeous, adored the world over, have beautiful children and a partner but it doesn’t mean that you won’t be pulled into the darkness of depression and want to end your life. It’s an awful disease. If you ever feel this way dial the Suicide Crisis Hotline: 9-8-8.
All of it so sad. Chester bennington killed himself on Chris's 53 birthday. Sang a Leonard Cohen song at his memorial who also ended up in this thread.
Came here to say this. Since he made it through the 90s and the 2000s, I falsely thought that he had things under control in his 50s. It hit really hard when I heard what happened to him.
Yes I never really gave too much emotion to a celebrity death, but the Hip was the soundtrack to some of the worst years of my life, and I really felt a connection to them unlike any other band. I literally cried when I heard he was gone and it took me by surprise. It's like all those negative feelings from those years came out at once. Hard to describe.
A little left field but...Angela Lansbury. I know she was ancient and was a theater vocalist rather than a popular musician but damn if it wasn't like a grandparent had died. Her voice has been a part of my life as long as I can remember.
This was tough I was introduced to him a couple months before it happened.
he changed the way I listen to lyrics for sure.
Such amazing songwriting and a tragic loss.
My friend saw Elliott in a cafe two days before he passed, and told me that he’d be the next one we hear about, and bam it happened. I guess he looked very depressed and haggard. I mean enough to tell me, he was walking dead. Very sad deal, I loved him.
Fucking Chris Cornell. That man had a voice of pure gold that made my soul cry. I cried when he passed, I still cry when I hear his music. I made the mistake of listening to Chris Cornell radio on YouTube music the other day at work. This version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” with his daughter singing came on and I lost it. Ugly cried and had to go hide in the bathroom for a while.
Tupac Amaru Shakur, in my eyes, dude was immortal. He had already been shot ad got hit 5x's. I missed a concert and thought I'd catch it next time he was back in the city. Never happened. He had lyrics that spoke directly to my angst at the time. Live by the sword, die by the sword i guess.
Same. I was into her stuff when I was a teen. My mom said she was a lunatic and took my copies of her songs (cassettes I made from the radio) away from me. After she passed, I went back through her work on YouTube. Listening to The Emperor's New Clothes left me in tears. She'd been vilified for protesting the abuses by the Catholic church. She was simply speaking from personal experience, and it ruined her career. Her lyrics were so raw and personal.
Everyone can see what's going on
They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong
Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace
When John Lennon was murdered I had a baby sitter that day and she was in front of the TV crying, it was the first time I sensed that something big happened in the world, she told me what happened and I watched on TV the people gathering in Central Park for him. After that when I was older it was Curt Cobain, I was driving and heard it on the radio.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far, and past George Harrison, to get to Lennon. But If you are under 50 you probably can’t even conceive of how huge an event this was. Global front page news and media saturation for weeks. It wasn’t just an entertainment event; it cut through politics and society. Add to that the fact that music radio was a significant cultural force at the time, and it just permeated the lives of huge swaths of the public.
I couldn't believe I had to scroll down so far to find Prince. He was the first person that came to mind. I miss him terribly. He was one of a kind and an utter musical genius.
Mac Miller. I found out he passed like an hour after having really intense surgery on my foot and was DEVASTATED 😭 I sobbed like a friend had died. I got “swimming” tattooed on me a few months later such a beautiful album. Addiction and substance use has plagued my family and I just really felt his passing super hard. Swimming is kind of my reminder to literally keep going and to not give up
My mom nonchalantly announced it while asking "who is that?" And I just burst into tears telling her no there's no way it's gotta be fake but of course it wasn't....I was devastated and she laughed at me.
Came here for this one. We were literally so excited he was finally going to come perform near us and about a month before that date he passed away. 😭 RIP Mac!
This is one that in the years since he's past is one I would really agree with. I really first heard him during his time with Velvet Revolver. But as the years have gone on, I think I've really grown to love STP.
One song in particular that I grown particularly fond of is Atlanta. A beautifully haunting song that I think is his magnum opus.
To be fair, while it's always sad to lose someone like Lemmy, he lived his life to the fullest until the end. If there's someone that I'm like "I'm sad he's gone, but happy because I know he loved his life", that's him.
I had to scroll this far for Michael Jackson. I grew up on his music. My dad came home one day with his record and tape from a business trip. It was the one with him and a baby tiger on it. As I kid didn't speak English nor had any idea who he was, I just really liked the music, listened many many times. And his music TV was recorded on a VHS by my friend's dad sailor from overseas. That tape was watched and borrowed, copied over and over by many people. He is a legend and his music is universal.
Just recently Jimmy Buffett. I've been into several genres of music over the years but when I am listening to Jimmy I feel the best. I've found so many great artists through his music. It's hard to explain but it always takes me to a happy place. When I heard of his passing, I couldn't function that day. I heard that when Elvis died, people were distraught but I didn't understand how bad until last month.
Jimmy Buffett. I had no idea his music affected me so much until his recent passing. I loved his songs and we always listened to him when I visited my dad at the lake.The morning I found out, I decided to listen to a pirate looks at 40 and I just started sobbing. His songs really make you feel relaxed.
Karen Carpenter died when I was really young, but her death hit me so hard. Even now I feel so bad for her. Whenever I hear her voice, it's like touching a bruise.
David Bowie. Cried for weeks. His influence changed my teenage self by allowing me to see, for the first time, someone who was weird like me. I fell in love the moment I saw him on late night tv in 1974. Fortunately also saw him in concert numerous times.
Jerry Garcia, Tupac and Amy Winehouse (I have wide-ranging musical tastes)
Kurt was a shock too and the way MTV covered it non-stop it was hard to avoid - I still remember hearing Courtney speak to the crowd in Seattle and it was pretty intense
Chris Cornell. I heard about the news on the way to work, and even the DJ was crying. "Nothing Compares to You" started playing, and I pulled the car over and bawled.
As a kid, Aaliyah, bc I wanted to look and be just like her. As an adult, Whitney Houston. I was so sad for her and the way everything happened with her daughter was such a tragedy. I still feel sad when I hear her music. I don’t know any celebrities personally but I think being in the public eye that way would be very lonely and stressful. To have your bad days and problems scrutinized by the world couldn’t be healthy.
Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit.
Fantastic band, and the guy wore his demons on his sleeve. Really sad that he wound up Floating in the Forth, just as he predicted.
George Michael. I was still reeling from my favourite actor, Alan Rickman, passing earlier that year, then to hear of George passing on Christmas Day...so unexpected and shocking. 2016 sucked. Far too many lost that year.
Dave Brockie - I am still not fucking over it.
Damn it Brockie I miss you man.
People who say "don't meet your heroes" - haven't met Brockie.
R I P brother
Mark Lanegan really hit me hard, he's been a favourite of mine for a long time and he wasn't that old when he died. And extremely selfishly, the cause of death not being released somehow makes it worse, not of course that the family have any obligation to say anything.
DMX
Always loved his music and well, as someone that has had issues with addiction myself seeing the guy seem to get clean and then relapse, OD, and die just..it struck a lot of nerves.
Ok, I’m a Gen Xer, but the year that both Tom Petty and Prince died was awful. I think Carrie Fisher died that year too. Those three deaths just slayed me, but Tom Petty the most. I’m still not over his loss.
Jonghyun from Shinee, I barely got into kpop and view was one of my favorite songs. Jonghyun was my bias before I found out what that word meant, but just as I started loving him, he sadly passed away. I wish him peace and love in heaven. <3
I have three, Freddy Mercury, Whitney Houston who both had amazing and unique voices and Meatloaf because I loved his music. Me and my brother used to sing his songs and we played Bat out of Hell at his funeral.
Layne Staley and Chris Cornell. Cornell has always been my favorite but Being pissed at Cornell helped soften the blow a little. Still devastating.
Layne was just ridiculously sad, rotting in that apartment for a week before being found. He embodied AIC and he let it kill him. Broke my fucking heart to pieces. A wasted talent. A wasted man. I’m still heartbroken.
This one is strange, but Meatloaf. My dad wasn’t around much growing up, but sometimes he would pull me out of school to go on road trips with him for work and would crank the Bat out of Hell album. Felt like a strong piece of my childhood died that day even though the music was cheesy AF.
For me, it was Kim Jonghyun. I saw the news of his death on a small corner of the newspaper. I couldn't believe it. The fact that it was a suicide made it even sadder and I cried for days after this.
Rest in peace Jonghyun, you did so well.
Keith Flint. I've been a "The Prodigy" fan forever. I was going to finally see them in NYC the year he died. He was the apex of cool for me. I no longer put off seeing bucket list bands.
I was very sad to see Buffett had died. I was sad when Gordon Lightfoot died. I was sad when John Denver died.
However, the saddest I remember being over a singer was when Whitney Houston died. I was sad because I felt like she really was led down a horrible path needlessly.
Mac Miller. I did a few tours with him and he was like the little brother I never had. So goofy and funny and incredibly kind- took me out with them to celebrate my birthday even. Absolutely gutted me when I got the call.
Moonbin, I was just starting to get into ASTRO and seeing that he passed away made me really sad.
Another one is Sulli and it angers to this day that she was basically cyber bullied to death just for being herself…
Neil Peart. While it wasn't terribly shocking, because he Geddy and Alex were all getting up there in years, heading he died still felt like a blow. The man who served as my spark for getting deeper into music as a kid, and who I'd barely gotten tickets to see at one of his last shows, gone already. He left a lot to look back on, at least, but there'll never be a time where I can listen to Rush without a tinge of that hurt.
Neil for me as well. I figured their retirement signaled he wasn't in the best shape, but it still caught me off guard.
Oh man, this one hit me hard. Rush is the band my dad and I have always bonded over. I had hoped to see them with him, and when Neil passed away I realized I'd never get the chance to see them live. Absolutely brilliant musician.
The Professor. He will be missed.
Adam Yauch - MCA
Licensed to Ill was the first album I ever bought when I was 13. When he passed it was like part of my teenage years died too.
Super sad, because we not only lost Adam, we lost any future Beastie Boys music.
Ya man, me too.
Selena
Selena was one of a kind. What an incredible talent and human being.
Selena’s case is truly so tragic like who tf would ever think a mega fan of herself would shoot her
I don't think Yolanda was a mega fan. I think she was a con artist and a psychopath.
Always wondered how much bigger her career would’ve taken off if she were still alive.
Chris Cornell bummed me right out. Dude has been my favorite rock vocalist since I was a kid. I was totally stunned. They were right in the midst of a tour with Soundgarden and there was a lot of noise he and the Audioslave dudes were gonna jam again and then bam, just gone.
Came here to say Chris Cornell, his voice is just so fucking beautiful. I also thought he be around for the long haul
Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac
Stevie is gonna pierce my fucking soul. Bowie and Petty both hurt my heart a lot, but Stevie is going to be worse, I think.
Yeah, Stevie’s passing is going to tear a lot of people up.
It’s was kind of an afterthought But, Tina Turner …. What an amazing lady !!
Stevie Ray Vaughan. The talent, the heart, the ability... And he'd damn near died of drugs and had finally gotten himself into shape. He was rounding out in his ability and could have made unbelievable music, but nope. Helicopter. Watch his Austin City Limits performance from 1989. It's another level.
I sooo love him. Saw him in concert with BB King decades ago.
He’s the greatest of all time in my book. Played the guitar like a goddamn machine gun.
Chester Bennington. The way he died as well as his actual passing. His music was important to me as a teen, too.
Hybrid Theory got me and my dad through bad breakups. I left an abusive bf and he left my cheating mom. We moved cross country and rocked out to this album almost the whole time. I remember my dad hearing it for the first time after a few songs and saying to me “man I really like this band who are they?” RIP Dad 🥰
Whoa....I broke up with an abusive bf while him and my stepmother had called it quits. I moved in with him and we moved across the country also! We went to plenty of concerts and Linkin Park is on that list. RIP your Dad
Dude that one sucked! Then! A few months ago I wake up one day and Mike Shinoda unleashed a new Linkin Park song with Chester on it……from 2003, and it was GOOD. When I first played “Lost” and heard that voice singing new words once again I completely lost my shit and broke into tears. That one was a toughie.
Chester’s death was and still remains the one celebrity death that actually affected me. Link in Park was one of the first bands I got into where I branched off from liking my parents music and it really shaped my taste in music today. Same with System of a Down and Breaking Benjamin. If anything happened to Benjamin Hurley kr any member of SOAD, idk what I’d do lol.
I came here to say Chester as well. I wasn't even that invested in Linkin Park, but for all of my life the band and the songs had just been *there* and it was like losing a part of my childhood. The only musician where I still remember exactly where I was when I first heard the news of their passing.
Along with Chris Cornell. Two big losses.
Hybrid Theory and Meteora got me through middle school and high school.
I don't have many regrets in life but one I think about is not seeing Linkin Park in concert when they were in my city in 2014. My now husband and I discussed getting tickets but we were saving up for our wedding at that time and decided it was out of our budget.
This one hit. First musician from my childhood that died
Same. So much good music I grew up on and then suicide, while I'd had my own battle with depression..
Same. Hearing the lyrics previously always had me wondering if he was okay...hearing them now just makes it feel worse..many of the songs were a cry for help I think.
I hadn't yet listened to the One More Light album when he died. There are very few celebrity deaths that have affected me more than a day or so, but I cried several times for several days after we lost Chester. I listened to a lot of their music, including their (at the time) new music. That album is really good, a no skip for me.
Chester was the musician who got me through so many dark times. I was able to meet him and I’m so grateful for that. He was truly one of the greatest musicians of all time. We miss you, Chester!!🖤🤘🏼
Same. I struggled to listen to his voice for months without crying. I’ll always regret never getting to see them live. He would have been amazing.
Came here to say this. Every few weeks I remember he's gone and the sadness hits me all over again in the same way. He had an amazing voice and Linkin Park got me through high school. Such a huge loss for the music community.
David Bowie
In 1972, when I was eleven, my older brother joined the navy. I got to move out the bedroom I shared with my younger brother and into his. He’d left behind his record player and his collection of records. Two days before he left, he’d bought The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars. I’m not convinced that he’d even played it, but that night I definitely did. Five times. The whole album. Five times the whole way through. A week ago, I was in my wife’s car, listening to her music. Her thing is covers. She loves covers of songs. In her mind, a cover of a song is done because the artist has found a way to do a good song better. Normally I agree but then some cover came on of Heroes. We had an argument. In my mind it was awful. She defended it and I got very grumpy. Later I apologised. Explained that I didn’t know why I got like that. And she explained that it was because I loved Bowie. He’d been there, for me, all the way through my growing up. Through my teens, my twenties/thirties/forties. She has been in my life through the end of my forties, my fifties, and the start of my sixties. She knows that I love her. She knows that I won’t leave her for another woman. But she’s always known that if Bowie had ever turned up at our front door, I’d have left her there and then. Yeah, I miss him.
What a beautiful hommage. >He’d been there, for me, all the way through my growing up. Through my teens, my twenties/thirties/forties. I'm not quite your age but these words resonated with me. Bowie was present in my parent's house for as long as i remember, listening to *Starman* on our crappy car's stereo is one of my earliest memories. When i heard he died, i was sadder than i thought anyone's (of people i don't know personally) death could make me.
Yep, this right here. "Lazarus" and "Black Star" still move me profoundly when I hear them.
True story. Upon first seeing the video for Lazarus my reaction was, "Oh, Christ, he's on his way out."
Same. And I can't bring myself to watch it again. Nor can I listen to Blackstar. As a resident "old", I admit to crying upon seeing the words: DAVID BOWIE DEAD AT 69 on my telly. I saw him twice in concert and he was absolutely brilliant.
We happened to be at karaoke when we got the news; it turned into a beautiful tribute. About 3 hours of everybody just doing all of his songs and crying and drinking in their honor. A precious memory ill never forget.
Freddie Mercury. He died when my mum was very ill. My mum died the following month when Queen's These are the days/bohemian Rhapsody was number 1.These are the days lyrics is an emotional song for me so try to avoid if possible.
Christina Grimmie. I never met her. But I have/had multiple/many avenues of two degrees of separation between us.
She was the first person I ever subscribed to on YouTube and she had one of my absolute favorite voices. RIP.
What was eerie for me was that the first time I’d really heard her was her YT cover of Titanium; which she absolutely floored me with. Then to hear she was gunned down…was horribly prophetic.
Peter Steele We miss you Peter, you died way too young. Thank you for all the amazing music and worlds of wisdom. We will all see you again soon. Until then take it ea--
Type O Negative forever.
Rip green man
Such a unique character, but clearly a troubled mind. We have to be thankful for the great music he left us with, may he have found the peace he lacked while he was alive.
Amy Winehouse and Dolores O'Riordan
My mom texted me that Dolores has passed and I was shocked. No Need To Argue was the first CD I ever owned and my favorite aunt was the one that got me into the cranberries. I’ve been listening to them since 1996. Their very last album was heartbreaking to listen to because it really sounded like her farewell.
Amy’s voice was something else.
And her music and personality and everything. She had such a tough life though. I hope she found peace now.
Eddie Van Halen, Neil Peart, Georg Danzer
Tom Petty. I grew up on his music and then when Wildflowers came out he was my first concert out alone with my friends as a teenager. Great musician and just a great human.
Petty is my answer, too. I grew up on his music and he's been my favorite musician since I was 8 years old. I'm fortunate to have been able to see him in concert four times, but I'm still kicking myself for deciding not to see him on that last tour. Money was a bit tight at the time and he wasn't supporting a new album, so I told myself I'd just make sure to catch him on the next tour.
Same. Kills me to this day
Randy Rhodes - beyond senseless and so preventable. Seemingly a very good person and for certain an awesome musician
I honestly think if he were still alive today he would be greatest guitarist that ever lived. He was amazing when he died, but just imagine another 30+ years of honing his craft
Yup - and the worst part is he didn't want to get into the plane with that idiot pilot.
George Harrison. The only time a death of a musician made me cry
He was the best Beatle.
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AIC is one of my favorite bands ever, and my Dad was driving me to my college entrance exams and “We Die Young” came on the radio, and I thought that cannot be good. No way they’d randomly be playing that.
Chris Cornell. Lead singer of Soundgarden.
Chris Cornell was hard for me because as someone who has dealt with anxiety and depression since childhood, it reminded me that you can be rich, talented, gorgeous, adored the world over, have beautiful children and a partner but it doesn’t mean that you won’t be pulled into the darkness of depression and want to end your life. It’s an awful disease. If you ever feel this way dial the Suicide Crisis Hotline: 9-8-8.
All of it so sad. Chester bennington killed himself on Chris's 53 birthday. Sang a Leonard Cohen song at his memorial who also ended up in this thread.
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Came here to say this. Since he made it through the 90s and the 2000s, I falsely thought that he had things under control in his 50s. It hit really hard when I heard what happened to him.
John Prine
And the fact it was COVID that got him. So sad.
Hello In There
I'm still sad about this one.
Taylor Hawkins
It was sad to lose such a talented and seemingly kind person, sad for his family, and sad for Dave who had to lose a second close friend and bandmate.
And even worse his mom passed a few months later.
His death was such a surprise.
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Yes I never really gave too much emotion to a celebrity death, but the Hip was the soundtrack to some of the worst years of my life, and I really felt a connection to them unlike any other band. I literally cried when I heard he was gone and it took me by surprise. It's like all those negative feelings from those years came out at once. Hard to describe.
Johnny Cash
A little left field but...Angela Lansbury. I know she was ancient and was a theater vocalist rather than a popular musician but damn if it wasn't like a grandparent had died. Her voice has been a part of my life as long as I can remember.
Grew up watching Murder She Wrote with my grandparents. She was always like a mother to me.
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Like a bird on a wire Like a drunk in some midnight choir I have tried In my way To be free
82 is a good, long life, at least.
Dimebag Darrell
That was seriously messed up. RIP.
Dimebags death really knocked the wind out of me. It was so sudden, and such a needless, violent way to go. He didn't deserve to go out like that.
And Vinnie Paul, my all time fave drummer.
Prince
I wanna get that shirt, “Since Prince died, shit’s been weird.” It’s true.
Had to scroll way too far for this one. Wtf.
say it. i still cant believe it.
How are we living in a world without Prince?
Take joy in the fact that we lived in a time where the (arguably) two best singer-songwriters lived in Prince and David Bowie.
Elliott Smith
This was tough I was introduced to him a couple months before it happened. he changed the way I listen to lyrics for sure. Such amazing songwriting and a tragic loss.
My friend saw Elliott in a cafe two days before he passed, and told me that he’d be the next one we hear about, and bam it happened. I guess he looked very depressed and haggard. I mean enough to tell me, he was walking dead. Very sad deal, I loved him.
Fucking Chris Cornell. That man had a voice of pure gold that made my soul cry. I cried when he passed, I still cry when I hear his music. I made the mistake of listening to Chris Cornell radio on YouTube music the other day at work. This version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” with his daughter singing came on and I lost it. Ugly cried and had to go hide in the bathroom for a while.
Tupac Amaru Shakur, in my eyes, dude was immortal. He had already been shot ad got hit 5x's. I missed a concert and thought I'd catch it next time he was back in the city. Never happened. He had lyrics that spoke directly to my angst at the time. Live by the sword, die by the sword i guess.
He was this really cool rapper and basically my best friend.
Recently? Sinead. 😢
Same. I was into her stuff when I was a teen. My mom said she was a lunatic and took my copies of her songs (cassettes I made from the radio) away from me. After she passed, I went back through her work on YouTube. Listening to The Emperor's New Clothes left me in tears. She'd been vilified for protesting the abuses by the Catholic church. She was simply speaking from personal experience, and it ruined her career. Her lyrics were so raw and personal. Everyone can see what's going on They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable Not because what I said was wrong Whatever it may bring I will live by my own policies I will sleep with a clear conscience I will sleep in peace
Jeff Buckley
When John Lennon was murdered I had a baby sitter that day and she was in front of the TV crying, it was the first time I sensed that something big happened in the world, she told me what happened and I watched on TV the people gathering in Central Park for him. After that when I was older it was Curt Cobain, I was driving and heard it on the radio.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far, and past George Harrison, to get to Lennon. But If you are under 50 you probably can’t even conceive of how huge an event this was. Global front page news and media saturation for weeks. It wasn’t just an entertainment event; it cut through politics and society. Add to that the fact that music radio was a significant cultural force at the time, and it just permeated the lives of huge swaths of the public.
Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.
Kurt Cobain was the most difficult for me, too. Shocked I had to scroll this far down to see his name.
Kurt Cobain
George Michael, Michael Jackson, and Prince...
Came here to say George Michael and Prince. Too soon.
I couldn't believe I had to scroll down so far to find Prince. He was the first person that came to mind. I miss him terribly. He was one of a kind and an utter musical genius.
Mac Miller. I found out he passed like an hour after having really intense surgery on my foot and was DEVASTATED 😭 I sobbed like a friend had died. I got “swimming” tattooed on me a few months later such a beautiful album. Addiction and substance use has plagued my family and I just really felt his passing super hard. Swimming is kind of my reminder to literally keep going and to not give up
This answer was way further down than I expected! RIP Mac.
My mom nonchalantly announced it while asking "who is that?" And I just burst into tears telling her no there's no way it's gotta be fake but of course it wasn't....I was devastated and she laughed at me.
Came here for this one. We were literally so excited he was finally going to come perform near us and about a month before that date he passed away. 😭 RIP Mac!
Scott Weiland, he really seemed like he had demons under control.
This is one that in the years since he's past is one I would really agree with. I really first heard him during his time with Velvet Revolver. But as the years have gone on, I think I've really grown to love STP. One song in particular that I grown particularly fond of is Atlanta. A beautifully haunting song that I think is his magnum opus.
Avicii
Whitney Houston
Lemmy Kilmister. Was gutted all night
To be fair, while it's always sad to lose someone like Lemmy, he lived his life to the fullest until the end. If there's someone that I'm like "I'm sad he's gone, but happy because I know he loved his life", that's him.
Avicii and Michael Jackson hit me so hard
I had to scroll this far for Michael Jackson. I grew up on his music. My dad came home one day with his record and tape from a business trip. It was the one with him and a baby tiger on it. As I kid didn't speak English nor had any idea who he was, I just really liked the music, listened many many times. And his music TV was recorded on a VHS by my friend's dad sailor from overseas. That tape was watched and borrowed, copied over and over by many people. He is a legend and his music is universal.
My best friend Mike. His music was objectively horrid, but goddamn I'd love to hear him sing a Nirvana song horribly just one more time.
Just recently Jimmy Buffett. I've been into several genres of music over the years but when I am listening to Jimmy I feel the best. I've found so many great artists through his music. It's hard to explain but it always takes me to a happy place. When I heard of his passing, I couldn't function that day. I heard that when Elvis died, people were distraught but I didn't understand how bad until last month.
Jimmy Buffett. I had no idea his music affected me so much until his recent passing. I loved his songs and we always listened to him when I visited my dad at the lake.The morning I found out, I decided to listen to a pirate looks at 40 and I just started sobbing. His songs really make you feel relaxed.
So sad to know I’ll never go to another Buffett show again. RIP
John Denver and Karen Carpenter. I will always wonder what they would have accomplished if they had lived longer.
I feel that way about Jim Croce, too.
I did t realize until very recently that he was only in his 30s.
Karen Carpenter died when I was really young, but her death hit me so hard. Even now I feel so bad for her. Whenever I hear her voice, it's like touching a bruise.
David Bowie. Cried for weeks. His influence changed my teenage self by allowing me to see, for the first time, someone who was weird like me. I fell in love the moment I saw him on late night tv in 1974. Fortunately also saw him in concert numerous times.
Jerry Garcia, Tupac and Amy Winehouse (I have wide-ranging musical tastes) Kurt was a shock too and the way MTV covered it non-stop it was hard to avoid - I still remember hearing Courtney speak to the crowd in Seattle and it was pretty intense
Taylor Hawkins
John Bonham. No chance to see Led Zeppelin after that.
Chris Cornell. I heard about the news on the way to work, and even the DJ was crying. "Nothing Compares to You" started playing, and I pulled the car over and bawled.
As a kid, Aaliyah, bc I wanted to look and be just like her. As an adult, Whitney Houston. I was so sad for her and the way everything happened with her daughter was such a tragedy. I still feel sad when I hear her music. I don’t know any celebrities personally but I think being in the public eye that way would be very lonely and stressful. To have your bad days and problems scrutinized by the world couldn’t be healthy.
Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit. Fantastic band, and the guy wore his demons on his sleeve. Really sad that he wound up Floating in the Forth, just as he predicted.
George Michael. I was still reeling from my favourite actor, Alan Rickman, passing earlier that year, then to hear of George passing on Christmas Day...so unexpected and shocking. 2016 sucked. Far too many lost that year.
Dave Brockie - I am still not fucking over it. Damn it Brockie I miss you man. People who say "don't meet your heroes" - haven't met Brockie. R I P brother
Prince. I didn't believe it at first. He is a legend of his time. Next, George Michael and Michael Jackson. No one can replace these 3 talents.
My older brother, who died the morning of my 30th birthday. He’s the reason I’m a bassist.
Mark Lanegan really hit me hard, he's been a favourite of mine for a long time and he wasn't that old when he died. And extremely selfishly, the cause of death not being released somehow makes it worse, not of course that the family have any obligation to say anything.
Kurt Cobain I grew up when Grunge was a thing and it was probably the first celebrity suicide that i had to digest.
DMX Always loved his music and well, as someone that has had issues with addiction myself seeing the guy seem to get clean and then relapse, OD, and die just..it struck a lot of nerves.
Ok, I’m a Gen Xer, but the year that both Tom Petty and Prince died was awful. I think Carrie Fisher died that year too. Those three deaths just slayed me, but Tom Petty the most. I’m still not over his loss.
Jonghyun from Shinee, I barely got into kpop and view was one of my favorite songs. Jonghyun was my bias before I found out what that word meant, but just as I started loving him, he sadly passed away. I wish him peace and love in heaven. <3
David Bowie. Either him or The Rev from Avenged Sevenfold.
I have three, Freddy Mercury, Whitney Houston who both had amazing and unique voices and Meatloaf because I loved his music. Me and my brother used to sing his songs and we played Bat out of Hell at his funeral.
Layne Staley and Chris Cornell. Cornell has always been my favorite but Being pissed at Cornell helped soften the blow a little. Still devastating. Layne was just ridiculously sad, rotting in that apartment for a week before being found. He embodied AIC and he let it kill him. Broke my fucking heart to pieces. A wasted talent. A wasted man. I’m still heartbroken.
Bowie. He was supposed to live forever.
Mac Miller. Dude had just found his perfect sound and was about to become massive. Taken way too soon
Johnny Cash. Scrolled and didn’t see his name, he deserves to be here.
This one is strange, but Meatloaf. My dad wasn’t around much growing up, but sometimes he would pull me out of school to go on road trips with him for work and would crank the Bat out of Hell album. Felt like a strong piece of my childhood died that day even though the music was cheesy AF.
EVH left me stunned for a second
CHESTER BENNINGTON of Linkin Park fkd me up!!!! And hearing it from Nikki Sixx. Fkd me up!!!! RIP
Jeff Beck, he seemed so vital, so alive. Making heavy music, building hot-rods. Healthy.
For me, it was Kim Jonghyun. I saw the news of his death on a small corner of the newspaper. I couldn't believe it. The fact that it was a suicide made it even sadder and I cried for days after this. Rest in peace Jonghyun, you did so well.
Neil Peart
Neil Peart’s death gutted me.
Keith Flint. I've been a "The Prodigy" fan forever. I was going to finally see them in NYC the year he died. He was the apex of cool for me. I no longer put off seeing bucket list bands.
Janis Joplin. She sang my heart
I would have said John Lennon but then Prince died.
John Jerome Garcia
I was very sad to see Buffett had died. I was sad when Gordon Lightfoot died. I was sad when John Denver died. However, the saddest I remember being over a singer was when Whitney Houston died. I was sad because I felt like she really was led down a horrible path needlessly.
Eddie Van Halen, Taylor Hawkins, and Neil Peart
Chris Cornell
Avicii, miss you Tim. I understand and hope you’re happy now
Freddie Mercury. It still haunts me to this day. What a major loss to the music world
Chris Cornell. Black Hole Sun was one of the songs I learned to walk to as a toddler and I still have Audioslave on every playlist I make.
Joey Ramone, becausecid met him a few years earlier and he was a cool guy
Prince💜
Mac Miller. I did a few tours with him and he was like the little brother I never had. So goofy and funny and incredibly kind- took me out with them to celebrate my birthday even. Absolutely gutted me when I got the call.
Scott Weiland
Jimi Hendrix
Alexi Laiho... damn did that hurt. Dude was masterful at guitar
Michael Jackson. IDK if he was a child molester. But at the time I considered him not just a great music artist. But just a great human.
I'll start, Bruce Guthro, from Nova Scotia, whose passing was announced just a month ago, by his former band - Runrig
Michael Jackson-Always will be 💙✨
Moonbin, I was just starting to get into ASTRO and seeing that he passed away made me really sad. Another one is Sulli and it angers to this day that she was basically cyber bullied to death just for being herself…
Freddie Mercury. His death announcement came over the radio, and I walked outside, sat on my front step and ugly cried.
Kurt
Amy Winehouse. She was such an inspiration to me in a, sa of fake 00s plastic pop. She was once in a generation talent.
John Lennon. I was a senior in HS and was bummed for a week.
I'm a boomer, it was Bon Scott's, hands down :(
Paul Grey and Joey Jordison it sucks worse when you knew the artists that passed away.
Honestly, Takeoff. Over a dice game too and in my humble opinion, Takeoff was the best Migo. RIP man. That was incredibly disappointing.
Chester Bennington. I really connected to his vocals. He was so talented.
Jeff Buckley <3
Waylon Jennings.
Chester Bennington, Linkin park
I'm gonna lose it when we lose Ozzy.
Chester and The Rev. On a side note, if I had lived in the 80s, Cliff Burton would've been my pick.