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Robbie Robertson, the legendary guitarist and songwriter who led the Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, died at age 80 on August 9, 2023.

Randy Meisner, a creator of the Southern California rock sound as a singer, songwriter and bassist who achieved fame with the Eagles and Poco in the ’70s, died on July 26, 2023. He was 77.

Sinéad O’Connor, the outspoken Irish singer-songwriter who went to the top of the charts at a dizzying speed with her biggest hit, the Grammy-winning “Nothing Compares 2 U,” died on July 26, [...]

Tony Bennett, the legendary pop and jazz crooner who famously sang “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” died on July 21, 2023. He was 96.

George Winston, a solo pianist whose Grammy-winning sound helped define the new age genre, died on June 4. He was 74.

Tina Turner, whose modest beginnings balanced out her emergence as one of the most admired entertainers in the world, died on May 24, 2023. She was 83.

Guitarist and songwriter Gary Rossington, the last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, died March 5, 2023. He was 71.

David Lindley, who died on March 3, 2023 at the age of 78, pursued a peculiar—some would say nutty—path through more than five decades of music making. His encyclopedic knowledge of traditional [...]

Burt Bacharach died on February 8, 2023 at the age of 94. Spoken of with such names as Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers, Bacharach’s hit-single track record ran the gamut from rock and soul to [...]