List of 2015 deaths in popular music

This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2015.

2015 deaths in popular music

Name Age Date Location Cause of death Jeff Golub 59 January 1, 2015 New York City, New York, U.S. Progressive supra-nuclear palsy Little Jimmy Dickens 94 January 2, 2015 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Heart failure Pino Daniele 59 January 4, 2015 Rome, Italy Heart attack Curtis Lee 75 January 8, 2015 Yuma, Arizona, U.S. Cancer Andraé Crouch 72 January 8, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Popsy Dixon The Holmes Brothers 72 January 9, 2015 Richmond, Virginia, United States Bladder cancer Tim Drummond 74 January 11, 2015 Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. A. J. Masters 72 January 12, 2015 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Prostate cancer Trevor Ward-Davies Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 70 January 13, 2015 Devizes, England Cancer Kim Fowley Record producer and songwriter; manager of the Runaways 75 January 15, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Bladder cancer Yao Beina 33 January 16, 2015 Shenzhen, China Metastatic cancer Dallas Taylor Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 66 January 18, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Cancer ASAP Yams ASAP Mob 26 January 18, 2015 New York City, New York, U.S. Drug overdose Ward Swingle The Swingle Singers 87 January 19, 2015 Eastbourne, England Edgar Froese Tangerine Dream 70 January 20, 2015 Vienna, Austria Pulmonary embolismRossana Ruffini Italian singer and actress71January 20, 2015Vetralla, Viterbo, Italy Demis Roussos Aphrodite's Child 68 January 25, 2015 Athens, Greece Pancreatic, stomach and liver cancer Neil LeVang 83 January 26, 2015 Canyon Country, Santa Clarita, California, U.S. UnknownDanny McCullochThe Animals 69 January 29, 2015 UK Maurizio Arcieri Italian singer and actor72January 29, 2015Varese, Italy Don Covay 78 January 31, 2015 Franklin Square, New York, U.S. Stroke Andriy Kuzmenko Skryabin 46 February 2, 2015 Lozuvatka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine Traffic accident William Thomas McKinley 76 February 3, 2015 Reading, Massachusetts, U.S. Edward "Eddie The Kydd" RendiniGuitarist for Darwin's Waiting Room, Cold 38 February 5, 2015 Altamonte Springs, Florida, U.S. UndisclosedMarisa Del Frate Italian singer and actress83February 6, 2015Rome, Italy Joe B. MauldinThe Crickets 74 February 7, 2015 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Cancer Calvin Jackson 54 February 10. 2015 Senatobia, Mississippi, U.S. Steve StrangeStrange Cruise, The Moors Murderers, The Photons, Visage 55 February 12, 2015 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Heart attack Sam AndrewBig Brother and the Holding Company 73 February 12, 2015 San Francisco, California, U.S. Complication after open heart surgery David Maxwell 71 February 13, 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Prostate cancer Lesley Gore 68 February 16, 2015 Manhattan, New York, U.S. Lung cancer Mats Olausson Talisman, Kamelot 54 February 18, 2015 Rayong, Thailand Suicide Clark Terry 94 February 21, 2015 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S. Diabetes Ariel Camacho 22 February 25, 2015 Sinaloa, Mexico Car accidentGiacomo Rondinella Italian singer91February 26, 2015Fonte Nuova, ItalyMaxeeBrownstone 46 February 28, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Fatal cut from glass of a cup that shattered when she fell Orrin Keepnews 91 March 1, 2015 El Cerrito, California, U.S. Lew Soloff Blood, Sweat & Tears 71 March 8, 2015 New York City, New York, U.S. Heart attack Jimmy Greenspoon Three Dog Night 67 March 11, 2015 North Potomac, Maryland, U.S. Melanoma Daevid Allen Gong, Soft Machine 77 March 13, 2015 Byron Bay, Australia Cancer Mike Porcaro Toto 59 March 15, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Bruce Crump Molly Hatchet 57 March 16, 2015 Richmond, Virginia, United States Throat cancer Andy Fraser Free 62 March 16, 2015 Temecula, California, U.S. Heart attack Paul Jeffrey 81 March 20, 2015 North Carolina, U.S. A. J. Pero Twisted Sister, Adrenaline Mob 55 March 20, 2015 Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. Heart attack John RenbournPentangle 70 March 26, 2015 Hawick, Scotland Heart attack Susumu Yokota 54 March 27, 2015 Japan Unspecified long illness Billy Butler 69 March 31, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Bob BurnsLynyrd Skynyrd 64 April 3, 2015 Bartow County, Georgia, U.S. Traffic accident Kayahan 66 April 3, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey Percy Sledge 74 April 14, 2015 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. Liver cancer Billy Ray HearnRecord producer and co-founder of Myrrh Records and Sparrow Records 85 April 15, 2015 Nashville, Tennessee, United States Heart disease Johnny Kemp 55 April 16, 2015 Montego Bay, Jamaica Hit and fall from shipSlobodan DomanćinovićSerbian Folk singer 63 April 16, 2015 Negotin, Serbia Unknown Wally LesterThe Skyliners 73 April 21, 2015 Southport, North Carolina, U.S. Pancreatic cancer Jack ElyThe Kingsmen 71 April 27, 2015 Terrebonne, Oregon, U.S. Kęstutis Kazakevičius Member of Broliai Aliukai 59 April 27, 2015 Kaunas, Lithuania Unknown Guy LeBlancCamel 54 April 27, 2015 Kemptville, Canada Kidney cancer Ben E. KingThe Drifters 76 April 30, 2015 Hackensack University Medical Center, New Jersey, U.S. Natural causes Craig GruberRainbow, Elf 63 May 5, 2015 Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. Prostate cancer Errol BrownHot Chocolate 71 May 6, 2015 Bahamas Liver cancer B.B. King 89 May 14, 2015 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Vascular dementia Louis JohnsonThe Brothers Johnson 60 May 21, 2015 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Gastrointestinal bleeding Dennis Sheehan Tour manager for U2 68 May 26, 2015 West Hollywood, California, U.S. Heart attack Kirill Pokrovsky Russian musician and member of Aria, Master 53 June 1, 2015 Ghent, Belgium Undisclosed Ornette Coleman 85 June 11, 2015 New York City, New York, U.S. Cardiac arrest Big Time Sarah 62 June 13, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Heart complicationsRemo Remotti Italian narrator, actor, and singer-songwriter90June 21, 2015Rome, Italy James Horner 61 June 22, 2015 Southern California, U.S. Plane crash Cristiano Araújo 29 June 24, 2015 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil Car accident Chris SquireYes 67 June 27, 2015 Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Acute erythroid leukemia Ernie MarescaThe Regents 76 July 8, 2015 Florida, U.S. Michael Masser 74 July 9, 2015 Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. Hussein Fatal Outlawz42 July 10, 2015 Banks County, Georgia Car crash Eric WrixonThem, Thin Lizzy 68 July 13, 2015 Pontremoli, Italy Joan Sebastian 64 July 13, 2015 Teacalco, Morelos, Mexico Bone cancer Dave SomervilleThe Diamonds 81 July 14, 2015 Santa Barbara, California, U.S. Cancer David Masondo Member of The Soul Brothers 65 July 15, 2015 Johannesburg, South Africa Undisclosed Buddy Buie 74 July 18, 2015 Dothan, Alabama, U.S. Heart attack Dieter Moebius Moebius & Plank, Harmonia, Cluster 71 July 20, 2015 Germany Cancer Theodore Bikel 91 July 21, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Mitch Aliotta Rotary Connection 71 July 21, 2015 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Eddie HardinThe Spencer Davis Group, Axis Point 66 July 22, 2015 France Heart attackAnna Marchetti Italian singer, active in the 1960s 69July 23, 2015Bologna, ItalyLong illness Lynn Anderson 67 July 31, 2015 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Heart attack Cilla Black 72 August 1, 2015 Estepona, Costa del Sol, Spain Stroke after a fall Sean PriceBoot Camp Clik, Heltah Skeltah 43 August 8, 2015 New York City, New York, U.S. Giancarlo Golzi Italian drummer, members of the group Matia Bazar and the Museo Rosenbach63August 12, 2015Bordighera, ItalyHeart attack Bob Johnston 83 August 14, 2015 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Danny Sembello 52 August 15, 2015 Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, U.S. Drowning Smokey Wilson 79 September 8, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Bryn MerrickThe Damned 56 September 12, 2015 Cardiff, Wales Cancer Gary RichrathREO Speedwagon 65 September 13, 2015 Bloomington, Illinois, U.S. Johnny "Yard Dog" Jones 74 September 15, 2015 Decatur, Illinois, U.S. Ben CauleyThe Bar-Kays 67 September 21, 2015 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Wilton FelderThe Crusaders 75 September 27, 2015 Whittier, California, U.S. Multiple myeloma Frankie Ford 76 September 28, 2015 Gretna, Louisiana, U.S. Natural causes Phil Woods 83 September 29, 2015 East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. EmphysemaRodolfo Maltese Guitarist and trumpet player of the progressive group Banco del Mutuo Soccorso68October 3, 2015Rome, ItalyLong illness Stasys PovilaitisLithuanian Pop singer and member of Nemuno Žiburiai, Nerija 68 October 6, 2015 Palanga, Lithuania Lung cancer Billy Joe Royal 73 October 6, 2015 Morehead City, North Carolina, U.S. Natural causes Jim DiamondPh.D.64 October 8, 2015 London, England Pulmonary edema Bruce NazarianBrownsville Station 66 October 9, 2015 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Heart attack Steve MackayThe Stooges 66 October 10, 2015 Daly City, California, U.S. Sepsis Robbin ThompsonSteel Mill 66 October 10, 2015 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. Cancer Smokin' Joe Kubek 58 October 11, 2015 Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S. Heart attack Frank WatkinsObituary, Gorgoroth 47 October 18, 2015 Florida, U.S. Cancer Cory Wells Cory Wells & The Enemys, Three Dog Night 74 October 20, 2015 Dunkirk, New York, U.S. Complications from multiple myeloma Eddie HohThe Mamas & the Papas, The Monkees 71 November 7, 2015 Westmont, Illinois, U.S. Andy WhiteThe Beatles 85 November 9, 2015 Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S. Stroke Allen Toussaint 77 November 10, 2015 Madrid, Spain Heart attack Phil TaylorMotörhead 61 November 11, 2015 Hasland, England Liver disease P.F. Sloan 70 November 15, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Pancreatic cancer David Van Landing Michael Schenker Group, Crimson Glory 51 November 17, 2015 Clearwater, Florida, U.S. Car accident, collision Cynthia Robinson Sly and the Family Stone 69 November 23, 2015 Carmichael, California, U.S. Cancer Ronnie Bright The Cadillacs, The Coasters, The Deep River Boys, The Valentines 77 November 26, 2015 New York City, New York, U.S. Unknown causes Wayne Bickerton 74 November 29, 2015 Hertfordshire, England Kelvin Knight Drummer for Delta 5 56 December 2, 2015 York, England Liver & kidney failure Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver 48 December 3, 2015 Bloomington, Minnesota, U.S. Drug overdose Bonnie Lou 91 December 8, 2015 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Dementia Rainer Bloss 69 December 10, 2015 Berlin, Germany Zemya HamiltonClubland 50 December 23, 2015 Sigtuna, Sweden Multiple sclerosis Stevie Wright The Easybeats 68 December 27, 2015 South Coast, New South Wales, Australia Pneumonia LemmyMotörhead, Hawkwind 70 December 28, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia, and congestive heart failure John BradburyThe Specials 62 December 28, 2015 North London, England Natalie Cole 65 December 31, 2015 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Congestive heart failure

See also

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