2023 In Memoriam
A year ago, I began what will unfortunately be a regular series of these programs from now on\u2026it\u2019s an annual look back on the musicians we lost in the previous year\u2026\nRock star deaths have been on our mind since late 2015 when Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots died, followed a few weeks later by Lemmy of Motorhead\u2026then the floodgates opened in 2016: Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Glenn Frey of the eagles, both Keith Emerson and Greg Lake from Emerson Lake and Palmer, and George Michael\u2014just to name a few\u2026\nAnd since then, it seems we hear about a rock star death every couple of weeks\u2026Tom Petty, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Gregg Allman, Walter Becker of Steely Dan, Chuck Mosley of Faith No More, Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode, Mark E. Smith of The Fall, Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones\u2026it\u2019s been a lot to take in\u2026\nSome of these deaths have been of natural causes, disease, and old age\u2026others have involved drugs, alcohol, years of hard living, misadventure, and suicide\u2026\nHere\u2019s the hard truth: rock has been around for about seventy years\u2026many of the people who have provided us with our favourite music and some of the greatest songs of all time are reaching the end of their lives\u2026\nNo one is getting any younger...and over the next decade, we\u2019re going to lose some of the personalities who have always been with there for us over the last 30, 40, 50, or even 60 years...\nWith that grim reality in mind, I think we need to continue with an annual retrospective at those whom we\u2019ve lost in the last 12 months\u2026they may be gone, but we need to recognize and celebrate their contributions to the world of music...this is 2023 in memoriam...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices