Blog: Any Major Dude With Half A Heart

Having rounded up most of the deaths of musicians in 2009, I'll start to do so monthly as of now. I won't include everybody who has died. So jazz drummer Ed Thigpen, who died on 13 January at 79, doesn't feature because I have no music by him. Others won't feature because their genre is meaningless to me (death metal, for ironic example). And a few will surely slip under my radar, though probably fewer than the numbers ignored by the Grammys. I will include only musicians; songwriters, producers, managers, label bosses and so on are excluded unless they also [...]