Top Ten Rock & Metal Musicians Who Died in 2017
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. He died on 18 March 2017. One of the most important musicians in the history of music died this year, unfortunately :/
Somebody better start a list for 2018
Christopher John "Chris" Cornell was an American rock musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter and rhythm guitarist for Seattle rock band Soundgarden and as former lead vocalist and songwriter for the supergroup Audioslave. His vocal range was C2 to A5, while his highest notes went up to G6. He died on May 17, 2017. I will forever miss him. A great voice, powerful and raw. Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, his solo stuff, all just amazing. Rest in Peace you rock legend.
Malcolm Mitchell Young was an Australian musician and songwriter, best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the hard rock band AC/DC.
Antoine "Fats" Domino, Jr. was a French Creole pianist and singer-songwriter. He released five gold records before 1955 and had 35 hit records in the U.S. Top 40. He died on October 25, 2017. He was a rock and roll pioneer along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard & Elvis Presley, but he never were as popular as them. I not even heard about his death on 24th of october.
My mum was heartbroken when she heard the news that her all time favourite singer had passed away.
RIP Fats.
Chester Charles Bennington (March 20th, 1976 - July 20th, 2017) was an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known for being the lead singer of Linkin Park. Before he was known for Linkin Park, Bennington was the lead singer of post-grunge act Grey Daze who was heavily inspired by Stone Temple Pilots they released two albums with Chester before his death. Wake Me and No Sun Today, a third album called Amends would be released in 2020 consisting of voice samples from Bennington. After Grey Daze dissolved, Bennington would join Linkin Parkin in 1999 formerly called Hybrid Theory, replacing former vocalist Mark Wakefield, who would go on to become Taproot's producer. Even with Bennington's ...read more.
Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer.
Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks is an American drummer who is one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band. One of Trucks' first bands was local Jacksonville band The Vikings, who made one 7-inch record in 1964.
Bobby Freeman was an early 60s rock and roll singer and songwriter best known for the song "Do You Wanna Dance". The song was covered more famously by, among others, The Beach Boys and The Ramones.
Tommy Allsup was an early rock and roll pioneer from Oklahoma. He could have died on the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, but luckily for him (and unluckily for Ritchie), he lost his plane seat to tour mate Ritchie Valens after a coin toss.
Pete was the bass guitarist for the band Mott the Hoople.