The year 2018 was book-ended by the passing of members of two of my favourite bands from the Manchester area. Mark E. Smith of The Fall in January and Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks in December. The year also ended with the passing of one of my favourite film directors, Nicolas Roeg. Director Bernardo Bertolucci died this year, as well.
Here’s a list (quite incomplete) of some of the music-related folks whi have left us in 2018…
Charles Aznavour
Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane)
Roy Carr (British music journalist)
Roy Clark
Vic Damone
Dennis Edwards (The Temptations)
Geoff Emerick (Abbey Road recording engineer)
Nanette Fabray
Sonny Fortune
Hardy Fox (The Residents)
Aretha Franklin
France Gall
Mike Harrison (Spooky Tooth)
Edwin Hawkins
Dave Holland (Judas Priest drummer… not the jazz bassist)
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Ed King (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Danny Kirwan (Fleetwood Mac)
Didier Lockwood
Reggie Lucas
Vince Martin
Hugh Masekela
Abi Ofarim
Dolores O’Riordan (The Cranberries)
Vinnie Paul (Pantera)
Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine)
Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)
Mark E. Smith (The Fall)
Tomasz Stańko
Cecil Taylor
Ray Thomas (The Moody Blues)
Wah Wah Watson (Funk Brothers)
Randy Weston
Nancy Wilson
For a more complete list check out:
Musician who died in 2018 list
