Joe Cocker
May 20, 1944 - December 22, 2014
Joe Cocker, the British singer best known for his cover of The Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends, has died at age 70 of lung cancer.
Ian McLagan
May 12, 1945 - December 3, 2014
Ian McLagan, a keyboardist who rose to fame with the British rock band the Small Faces (later the Faces), has died a day after suffering a massive stroke. He was 69.
Rick Rosas
Sept. 10, 1949 - November 6, 2014
Rosas played with Neil Young, Joe Walsh, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Rivers, Ron Wood, Etta James, and the short-lived reunion of the Buffalo Springfield.
Wayne Static
November 4, 1965 - November 1, 2014
Wayne Richard Wells, known professionally as Wayne Static, was best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist and music sequencer for metal band Static-X. He released his only solo studio album, Pighammer, on October 4, 2011.
Jimi Jamison
August 23, 1951 - August 31, 2014
Jimmy Wayne "Jimi" Jamison, the lead vocalist for rock bands Survivor and Cobra, has died at the age of 63.
Glenn Cornick
April 23, 1947 - August 28, 2014
Glenn Cornick, the original bass player in the rock band Jethro Tull, died of congestive heart failure at his home in Hilo, Hawaii.
Johnny Winter
February 23, 1944 - July 16, 2014
Tommy Ramone
January 29, 1952 - July 11, 2014
Thomas Erdelyi (born Erdélyi Tamás, better known by his stage name Tommy Ramone), was one of the forming members of the punk-rock band The Ramones.
Dave Brockie
August 30, 1963 - March 23, 2014
Dave Brockie was the lead singer of shock rock - gore masters GWAR. He died at age 50 in his Richmond, Virginia apartment. Gwar formed in 1984 and billed itself as "Earth's only openly extra-terrestrial rock band". As Oderus Urungus he entertained a generation of maggots.
Dennis Frederiksen
May 15, 1951 - January 18, 2014
Dennis Hardy "Fergie" Frederiksen, former Toto, Trillion and Le Roux singer died after a years-long battle with cancer. Frederiksen sang on Toto's 1984 Isolation album, which featured the hit single Stranger in Town.