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George Michael, Greg Lake and All The Musicians Who Died in December 2016

By Serene Dominic
Jan 3, 2017

2016 didn't hold back at the end of the year.
Prince, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, and Too Many Other Great Musicians Died in 2016

By Serene Dominic
Dec 21, 2016

The Grip Reaper had a busy, devastating year.
Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell, Sharon Jones, and 17 Other Musicians Who Died in November 2016

By Serene Dominic
Dec 6, 2016

November 2016 was a brutal month for music fans, as legends dropped at a seemingly nonstop rate.
Death Race 2016: Here are all the Musicians Who Died in October 2016

By Serene Dominic
Nov 1, 2016

With Halloween and Day of the Dead behind us, we turn now to our Month of the Dead tally and see if there were any October surprises. Of course, there were. Like the nine months before it, we lost some great underrated musicians, many of them songwriters whose names may not...
Death Race 2016: Here are the Musicians Who Died in September- Please Pray!

By Serene Dominic
Oct 4, 2016

Now cognizant of the dwindling rock star pool that is 2016, you've no doubt you've clicked on a story like this a couple of times every day on FaceBook: "BREAKING: Rock Music Legend Found Dead — Please Pray" I only just noticed that the source of this click bait turns...
Death Race 2016: Here are the Musicians Who Died in August 2016

By Serene Dominic
Sep 2, 2016

Even the Grim Reaper has to hang up his scythe and take a vacation once in awhile, and nothing shows he was slumming it in August more than the emergence of that Indonesian dude Mbah Gotho, who both claims to be both the oldest man alive at 145 and the...
Here Are All the Musicians Who Died in July 2016

By Serene Dominic
Aug 1, 2016

We went into 2016 with a bunch of whopper deaths in the rock pantheon and for a while it looked like they would continue unabated. As far as legends go, few of this month's casualties would qualify as that. But what we do have are a lot of journeyman players...
All The Famous Musicians Who Died In June 2016

By Serene Dominic
Jul 8, 2016

Here we are at the midway point of what has been the worst year for music having nothing to do with what was issued and everything to do with who was discontinued. "Sure," you say. "We lost a lot of giants early in the year like Bowie and Prince, but...
Death Race 2016: All The Musicians Who Died in April 2016

By Serene Dominic
May 3, 2016

No doubt about it, we suffered two devastating music legend losses in April 2016, but it is heartwarming to know that alarmist podcasts like Infowars and websites Survivopedia.com have found the missing link between Merle Haggard and Prince and united them in death — yes, those geo-engineering chemtrails! "Just to...
Here Are All The Famous Musicians Who Died in March 2016

By Serene Dominic
Apr 4, 2016

March came in like a lion and went out like a light for 16 notable musicians. The latest in the Reaper Ranks for the past 31 days, we have the demise a knighted record producer, a prog rock maverick and an actress turned pop star of whom we know that...
Eighteen Musicians Who Died in February 2016

By Serene Dominic
Mar 3, 2016

After the carnage that was January 2016 when we lost David Bowie AND Glenn Frey and two members of the Jefferson Airplane on the same day, media outlets felt it was their duty to tell us that since they ain't making classic rock musicians anymore, we'd better get used to losing...
The Famous and Forgotten Musicians Who Died in January 2016

By Serene Dominic
Jan 26, 2016

"We have all been here before, we have all been here before..." It's only fitting that the guy who drummed on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Deja Vu album would die two deaths, one year apart. If you remember, there wasn't any major rock ’n’ roll carnage taking place in...

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