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- Artist2025 ✝Colin JerwoodFounding member, frontman and lyricist for anarcho-punk band Conflict; the band advocated for veganism, animal rights and anti-capitalism, issuing nine full albums and 11 EP’s from 1982 to 2025, with several early 80s recordings reaching the Top 10 on the UK Indie Charts for albums and singles; the band’s concerts were often followed by rioting and general mayhem by fans clashing with police; continued to perform until suffering from an undisclosed illness in early 2025 that led to his death on 6/2/2025, age 63.Read more
- Artist2025 ✝James LoweFounding member, guitarist and lead singer for 60s psych/garage rock The Electric Prunes ("I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)),” #11, 1967) and two other charting singles, later became an audio engineer and producer for Todd Rundgren, glam-rock Sparks, and other rockers, left the music industry in the 70s for a career producing TV programs but returned for occasional Prunes reunions, reformed the group in 1999 for two decades of touring on the oldies circuit, died from natural causes on 5/22/2025, age 82.Read more
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- Artist2026 ✝Tommy DeCarloForty-something Home Depot credit manager, wanna-be rock singer and huge fan of rock group Boston (“More Than A Feeling,” #1, `1976); recorded a self-penned tribute song to original Boston singer Brad Delp following Delp’s 2007 suicide, plus vocal covers of the band’s big hits, and posted them to a MySpace page; recruited by bandleader Tom Scholz for the group's 2008 tour and spent the ensuing 18 years Boston’s principal vocalist and keyboardist on tours and on the 2013 album Life, Love & Hope; in between formed the melodic rock group DeCarlo with his son Tommy Jr., releasing the debut album Lightning Strikes Twice (2020), and issued a lone solo album, Dancing In The Moonlight in 2022; died from brain cancer exactly 19 years to the day of Delp’s suicide on 3/29/2026, age 60.Read more
- Artist1963Mike NocitoBass guitar for underappreciated, one hit wonder New Wave sophisti-pop Johnny Hates Jazz, "Shattered Dreams" (#2, 1988).Read more
- Artist1966Ken BlockLead singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer for Southern folk-rock Sister Hazel, "All For You" (#11, 1997), solo.Read more
- Artist1980Albert L. Hammond, Jr.Guitarist for early 00s garage rock revival The Strokes, "Juicebox" (Modern Rock #9, 2005).Read more
- Artist1962Calvin HayesFounding member, keyboards and drums for underappreciated, one hit wonder (in the U.S.) New Wave sophisti-pop Johnny Hates Jazz ("Shattered Dreams," (#2, UK #5, 1988), badly injured in a 1992 car accident, spent two years in a hospital recovering and largely dropped from sight in the late 90s.Read more
- Artist1964Phil ThornalleyVocals, guitar, songwriter and producer, briefly as bassist for post-punk The Cure, "Let's Go To Bed" (Dance/Club #32, 1983) then fronted one hit wonder New Wave sophisti-pop Johnny Hates Jazz, "Shattered Dreams" (#2, 1988), co-wrote "Torn" (covered by Natalie Imbruglia, #13, 1998).Read more
- Artist1966Charlie GroverDrummer in post-grunge alt rock Sponge, "Molly (16 Candles Down The Drain" (Modern Rock #3, 1995).Read more
- Artist1978Alison MosshartSinger, songwriter and occasional model, lead singer for indie rock The Kills ("The Good Ones," UK #23, 2005) and blues-rock supergroup The Dead Weather ("Die By The Drop," Alt Rock #20, 2010).Read more
- Artist1964Conny BloomGuitarist and songwriter for Finnish glam-punk-metal Hanoi Rocks, covered Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Up Around The Bend" (UK #61, 1984).Read more
- Artist2012 ✝Tommy MarthFreelance journalist, Las Vegas nightclub manager,Hard Rock Café marketing director and session saxophonist in alt hard rock The Killers ("Mr. Brightside," #10, Alt. Rock #3, 2003), committed suicide by gunshot on 4/23/2012, age 33.Read more
- Artist2025 ✝Perry BamonteRoadie and guitar tech for post-punk, art-glam-goth rock The Cure ("Friday I'm In Love,” #18, Modern Rock #1, 1992) before moving to the front of the stage in 1990 as guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter for the band, left in 2005 after being dismissed inexplicably by frontman Robert Smith and kept a low-profile for several years fly fishing, providing illustrations for a fly fishing magazine, and managing a retirement stable for elderly horses, joined London-based rock band Love Amongst Ruin in 2012 and resumed playing guitar and keyboards for The Cure in 2022 until suffering through a short, unspecified illness and dying at home on Christmas Eve, 12/24/2025, age 65.Read more
- Artist2025 ✝ManiBassist for “Madchester” guitar pop-rock The Stone Roses from 1987 to dissolution in 1996; played on both of the band’s albums and fourteen charting singles, including "One Love" (Alt Rock #9, UK #4, 1990); joined Scottish jangle pop/dance fusion Primal Scream in 1996 as full-time bassist for five albums and sixteen charting singles through 2011, including "Country Girl" (UK #5, 2006); left Primal Screen to rejoin former Stone Roses bandmates in 2012 and toured with the group until 2017; collapsed at home and died in an ambulance from undisclosed causes on 11/20/2025, age 63.Read more
- Artist2025 ✝Dave BallMulti-instrumentalist electronic musician and producer best known as half of the New Wave synth-pop duo Soft Cell; the group charted six Top 10 hits in the UK and one big hit in the US, "Tainted Love" (#8, UK #1, 1982); played with musical partner Marc Almond from 1978 to 1984, then off and on for the ensuing forty years; during breaks forming electro-dance The Grid (“Swamp Thing,” UK #3, 1994) and other short-lived groups, producing music for others and participating in several collaborations; completed a final Soft Cell album, Danceteria, in mid-2025; suffered from various ailments in later years and died in his sleep on 10/22/2025, age 66.Read more
- Artist2026 ✝Phil “Wizzo” CampbellWelsh guitarist and frontman for Cardiff-based heavy metal band Persian Risk before replacing Brian Robertson in British heavy metal Motörhead in 1984; remained the band’s primary guitarist for 31 years and 16 studio albums including Orgasmatron (1986), 1916 (1991), and the Grammy-winning Inferno (2004); co-wrote many of the band's modern era classics, including the Grammy-winning cover of "Whiplash" (2005); following the death of frontman Lemmy Kilmister - the founder and only constant member of Motörhead - and the group's subsequent dissolution in 2015, formed Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons with his three sons, releasing hard rock albums including The Age of Absurdity (2018) and We're the Bastards (2020); released his first solo project, Old Lions Still Roar in 2019, featuring collaborations with Alice Cooper and Rob Halford; died in intensive care from complications following a “complex” but unspecified surgery on 3/13/2026, age 64.Read more
- Artist2025 ✝James PrimeSession musician for Altered States and John Martyn in the 80s, then keyboards for revered Scottish indie pop-rock Deacon Blue, played with the band for forty years and on all 17 of their UK Top 40 ingles, including "Real Gone Kid" (UK #8, 1988) died following a short bout with cancer on 6/19/2025, age 64.Read more
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