Bob Marley

Krytonite said:

I forgot to add him to my post. Like the ones I listed, Bob definitely had more iconic art to make before he died.

1. Bob Marley
2. Donny Hathaway
3. Sam Cooke- Best male vocalist ever.
4. James Brown
5. Marvin Gaye

Bob Marley's death was interesting... considering this man who was such a fighter for peace in his music. He died of an inauspicious but still fatal incident with his toe which contracted melanoma. According to reports, Bob lost all of his dreads (due to cancer) prior to his death. At 36.

This was one of the last images of Bob Marley prior to his death in May 1981.

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Timmy84 said:

Yep, but he could've been a soul royalty long before Sam Cooke, James Brown and Marvin Gaye had he not been incarcerated and died in jail.

All of those guys looked up to him.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

That's right.

As much as I like Michael Jackson, he had already produced his best work both in studio and live.

Harlepolis said:

Exactly.

some great names up in here my three are

1 - Donny Hathaway

2 - Bob Marley

3 - Phyllis Hyman

3. Marvin Gaye
2. Donny Hathaway
1. MJ

Sam Cooke at number 4.

Harlepolis said:

Stevie Wonder admired him too, which is why he hired Keith John (John's son) to sing backup vocals... Keith has been with Stevie for about 25 years or more now, you can see him singing backup on just about every Stevie Wonder performance. He also sings backup on albums.

I don't think John wrote fever, just sang it.

Timmy84 said:

Damn that's one chilling picture. Never saw Bob like this before...
A tremendous loss!
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I really don't feel a loss for any particular artist since Rick James, Roger Troutman, and Michael Jackson had felloff and began making weak stuff years before their death.

The loss I feel in music is....

1. Uptempo fun dance music
2. Real drums
3. Real bass

But as for humanwise loss of a particular artist while they are still in their prime and "what ifs", it would definately be Prince beginning with "Around The World In A Day". From that point on, he was a completely different artist than he previously was (like a completely different person altogether) and I definately felt a huge loss.
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For me..... MJ, Tupac, Kurt Cobain and Selena Quintanilla.

Oh! I forgot to add Bradley Nowell from Sublime to my list. What's really sad is that they had just been signed to a major label and finished recording their major debut when he died. It's a great album and he never lived to see how successful it became.

Odd trying to put things like these in any order, but...

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. John Coltrane
3. Eric Dolphy

Obviously, many great artists have died, which is of course only natural. It would have been nice to see Michael Jackson finish his concert run successfully, but as an artist he probably didn't have that much left to give anymore.

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Krytonite said:

+ Jacob Miller, Tosh, Dennis Brown...

michael jackson
james brown
marvin gaye

and don't forget Prince. We lost him a few years back too...

My personal 3 are Ritchie Valens, Selena, and Aaliyah.

Timmy84 said:

There are so many that deserve mention, i mean its impossible to rank any of it because the relevance of each is so varied depending what they were doing but just a few that hit me.....


Michael Hutchence: The last great frontman of a band, nowadays does anyone care who the lead singer in a band is, or do they have something that makes you take notice.

Freddie Mercury: talk about the day the music died, god only knows what he would be working on now

John Lennon: he was looking at 40 as a new life and new beginning, i think had he lived there would have been ALOT of reconciling in his life.

Harry Chapin: The best songwriting storyteller ever, and the last GREAT HUMANATARIAN, this guy did 150 shows a year and 75% of those shows were all for charity, world hunger was his thing, he was given the nobel peace price for it later after his death in 1981 only lived to 39.

Jim Croce,John Denver: just for what was still to come, more for Jim than John since John had already done so much, Jim was just starting

Terry Kath (guitarist of Chicago) : possibly the best guitar player ever, def in the top 10, too bad Rolling Stone readers feel the likes of Kurt Cobain and Jack White are better, they need to look at the films of Terry.

This is just a few, but so many more exist

I don't know how to feel about this thread no offense to the poster

lastdecember said:

Harry Chapin was 38 when he died and he was given the Congressional Gold Medal.

1. MJ
2. Lisa Lopes
3. Biggie

Zannaloaf said:

I was waiting for someone to say that.

1. Clifford Brown
2. Charlie Parker
3. Otis Redding
4. Jim Croce
5. Eric Dolphy

Buddy Holly, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon