Ten African music legends we have lost, from Fela Kuti to Daddy Lumba
Two of them collapsed at the end of a performance, one died in exile in Belgium and one died a day after opening his own festival. Ten African music legends and how they died.
Category: Music
The 27 Club: the musicians who died at 27, and what the numbers really say
Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Cobain and Winehouse all died at 27. The coincidence became a legend, but a study of more than a thousand musicians found something else.
Wayne Osmond, singer and guitarist of the Osmonds, dies at 73
The fourth of nine Osmond children sang and played guitar in the family group from their barbershop days on The Andy Williams Show to the teen hysteria of One Bad Apple. He died after a massive stroke.
Craig Douglas, the Singing Milkman whose Only Sixteen topped the chart in 1959, dies at 85
Terence Perkins was delivering milk on the Isle of Wight when he started singing. As Craig Douglas, he took Only Sixteen to number one in 1959, outselling Sam Cooke's original in Britain.
Cronos, Venom frontman whose album gave black metal its name, dies at 63
Conrad "Cronos" Lant sang and played bass in Venom, the Newcastle trio whose 1982 album Black Metal named a genre and whose noise shaped Metallica, Slayer and a generation of extreme bands.
Lena Martell, Scottish singer of the 1979 number one One Day at a Time, dies at 86
Lena Martell became the first Scottish woman to top the UK singles chart with a solo record when One Day at a Time spent three weeks at number one in 1979. She had already been a television star for a decade.
George Fenton, composer of Gandhi, Groundhog Day and Planet Earth, dies at 76
The five-time Oscar nominee scored films for Richard Attenborough, Ken Loach and Nora Ephron, and wrote the music millions of people hear when they picture the natural world: Blue Planet and Planet Earth.
Mighty Sparrow, the ‘Calypso King of the World’, dies at 91
Slinger Francisco won Trinidad's Calypso King crown and its Road March eight times each, beginning with 'Jean and Dinah' in 1956, and performed into his eighties.
Angry Anderson, Rose Tattoo frontman, dies at 79
The shaven-headed singer fronted Rose Tattoo for half a century, scored an international hit with the Neighbours wedding song 'Suddenly' and suffered a cardiac arrest on the band's 50th anniversary tour.