Remembrance

Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York’s CBGB punk scene in the late ’70s, died on January 28, 2023. He was 73.

Jeff Beck, one of the respected and influential guitar heroes who made it happen for the classic rock generation, died on January 10, 2023, after contracting bacterial meningitis.

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, died on January 12, 2023, after a medical emergency and brief hospitalization. She was 54.

Kim Simmons, the leader and founder of Savoy Brown, died on December 13, 2022. The seminal blues-rock boogie band from England recorded a live album of greatest hits at Denver’s Rainbow Music [...]

There’s a whole lot less shakin’ goin’ on these days. Rock ’n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis—whose pounding piano, impassioned vocals and raw, uninhibited performing style captured the rebellious [...]

Robert Gordon, a fixture on the ’70s New York City downtown club scene who resuscitated rockabilly music, died on October 18, 2022. He was 75.

Mark Lanegan, an integral part of the grunge scene of the ’80s and ’90s, died at his home in Killarney, Ireland on February 22 at the age of 57. Lanegan first became prominent as the lead singer [...]

Meat Loaf—real name Marvin Lee Aday, “but nobody ever calls me that”—died on January 20, 2022. He was 74. His Bat out of Hell albums were perhaps the most grandiose, bombastic, [...]

Graeme Edge, drummer and co-founder of the Moody Blues, died on Novermber 11, 2021, at the age of 80. Described by frontman Justin Hayward as “one of the great characters of the music business,” [...]

Commander Cody, alias pianist and vocalist George Frayne, died September 26, 2021, at age 77, after a long battle with esophageal cancer. The crazy Commander was a fixture on the American music [...]