In Memoriam of Those Lost in 2022
Sometime around 2016, I got the sense that we were entering into a new era of rock history: a period when the musicians we loved and admired began to die...\nListen, there had been many deaths before then, but they seemed\xa0reasonably\xa0few and far between...but 2016 seems to have been the year\u2014for me, anyone\u2014when I realized that many of our most beloved musicians were getting older and starting to die off...\nThat one year alone we lost David Bowie, Glen Frey of The Eagles, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and George Michael....we lost both Keith Emerson and Greg Lake of the prog band Emerson, Lake, and Palmer...Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship...Maurice white of Earth, Wind, and Fire...Beatles producer George Martin...and that\u2019s only a partial list...\nIn 2017, it was Gord Downie, Tom Petty, Gregg Allman, Chris Cornell, ac/dc\u2019s Malcolm Young, Walter Becker of Steely Dan, and Chuck Berry, among others....\nThe following year, we lost Dolores O\u2019Riordan of The Cranberries, Mark E. Smith of the fall, Avicii, Aretha Franklin, and Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks.\nThen in 2019, Keith Flint of The Prodigy, Mark Hollis of Talk Talk,\xa0\xa0Ranking Roger of The English Beat and General Public, Ric Ocasek of The Cars, drumming legend Ginger Baker...I could go on, but you get the idea...\nThe one thing that binds all humans on this planet together is that some day, we\u2019re all gonna shuffle off into the great beyond... No 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 the time has come for an annual look back for those whom we\u2019ve lost in the last 12 months as a way to recognize their contributions to the world of music...this is 2022 in memoriam...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices