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though y'know, they did both record really fine versions of "Lucky Old Sun" which seems to be a far more "embracing/looking forward to death" song than any stupid goth band could ever imagine.
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
eight months pass...
Well, It's time to update the
site here; considering they
have both gone on....
― Christian Taylor, Saturday, 12 June 2004 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link
seventeen years pass...
In February 1970, US rock magazine Circus ran a cover story: "These People Are Approaching 30 - Will They Survive The 70's?" The cover featured portraits of 20 rock stars (some of whom were only "approaching" the age of thirty in reverse); four would indeed not survive the decade:
Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970)
Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
Since then, six more of the cover subjects have died:
John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
George Harrison (1943 - 2001)
Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003)
Alvin Lee (1944 - 2013)
Johnny Winter (1944 - 2014)
Charlie Watts (1941 - 2021)
Currently, 10 of the cover subjects are still living:
John Mayall (1933 - )
Grace Slick (1939 - )
Ringo Starr (1940 - )
Bob Dylan (1941 - )
David Crosby (1941 - )
Paul McCartney (1942 - )
Mick Jagger (1943 - )
Jimmy Page (1944 - )
Ray Davies (1944 - )
Pete Townshend (1945 - )
As a kid, I was always fascinated by encyclopedias and gravestones that listed birthdates with the death dates left blank; this post is my contribution to this longtime tradition. I considered making this a poll of which would be the last survivor, but felt ashamed remembering a poster criticizing other posters for treating the deaths of musicians too lightly.
Anyway, if anyone from February 1970 is reading this thread, I regret to inform you that Alvin Lee is no more.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 18 September 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
one year passes...