Musicians we’ve lost so far this year 2019

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30 April 2019, English musician Boon Gould died age 64.
He was one of the four founding members of Level 42 who scored the
1986 hit ‘Lessons in Love’, which reached number three on the
UK Singles Chart, and number 12 on the US chart.




30 April 2019, American concert promoter and media personality Russ Gibb died.
He was best known for his role in the “Paul McCartney is dead” phenomenon,
a story he broke as a disc jockey on radio station WKNR-FM in Detroit.
As a promotor around the Detroit music scene he was instrumental in giving
the MC5, Ted Nugent and Iggy Pop their start.




14 May 2019 American guitarist, singer and songwriter Mike Wilhelm died aged 77.
He was best known as a founding member of the influential Bay Area band
the Charlatans, who have been widely credited as starting the Haight-Ashbury
psychedelic scene during the 1960s. He later played with the bands
Loose Gravel and the Flamin’ Groovies.




14 May 2019, County singer Leon Rausch died age 91.
He was known as ‘the voice’ of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
who had the hits ‘Steel Guitar Rag’, ‘New San Antonio Rose’, and ‘Smoke On The Water.’




15 May 2019, Charles ‘Chuck’ Barksdale a founding Member of the doo-wop
group The Dells died age 84. They scored the hits ‘Oh, What a Night’, ‘Stay in My Corner,’
‘Always Together,’ and ‘Give Your Baby a Standing Ovation.’




17 May 2019, Eric Moore, lead singer of Ohio-based biker rock group The Godz
died after a battle with bladder cancer age 67. The Godz had toured with acts including
Kiss, Cheap Trick, Judas Priest, Blue Öyster Cult, and Iggy Pop.




18 May 2019, R&B singer Melvin Edmonds died at the age of 65.
He was a member of the group After 7 and the brother of
Kenny ‘Babyface’ Edmonds. After 7 scored the hits ‘Can’t Stop,’
‘Ready or Not’ and ‘Heat of the Moment.’




21 May 2019, Scottish musician Jake Black (The Very Reverend D. Wayne Love),
died age 59. He was a member of Alabama 3 who are best known for their track
‘Woke Up This Morning’ which was used for the opening credits of the TV series
The Sopranos. In the United States, the band is known as A3, to avoid legal
conflict with the country music band Alabama.




29 May 2019, Tony Glover, the influential blues harmonica player who was a longtime
peer of Bob Dylan and helped teach Mick Jagger how to play, died of natural causes age 79. He
also worked as a writer and critic, contributing to magazines Crawdaddy and Cream,
while also writing extensively for Rolling Stone between 1968 and 1973.




30 May 2019, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor Leon Redbone died age 69.
Redbone rose to fame in the ’70s folk scene when Bob Dylan sought him out
at a Canadian music festival. He later performed in several TV commercials,
including Budweiser beer, in which he lay on a surfboard singing ‘This Bud’s for You.’




31 May 2019, American singer, songwriter Roky Erickson died age 71.
Erickson co-founded the 13th Floor Elevators in late 1965 who released their
debut album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators the following year.
In 1968, while performing at HemisFair, Erickson began speaking gibberish.
He was soon diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital.
Erickson released his eponymous debut as Roky Erickson and the Aliens in 1980.
He recorded a steady stream of releases up until 2004.




6 June 2019, American singer and songwriter Dr John known for music combining
blues, pop, jazz, boogie woogie and rock and roll died at the age of 77 after suffering a
heart attack. Born Malcolm John Rebennack his career started in the late 1950s, when
he became prominent as a pianist and singer on the New Orleans music scene.
He played piano on the Rolling Stones’ 1972 song “Let It Loose”, and also worked
with many other artists including Carly Simon, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr,
Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Bob Seger and Joe Walsh.