Spectropop Remembers

Spectropop Remembers

A selection of tributes to our musical heroes and heroines who died between 2002 and 2006. Click on each image for full obituary

Jamie LePage
(1953 - 2002)

Sharon Sheeley
(1940 - 2002)

Otis Blackwell
(1931 - 2002)

Marshall Leib
(1939 - 2002)

Jack Nitzsche
(1937 - 2000)

Lonnie Donegan
(1931 - 2002)

Bobby Sheen
(1943 - 2000)

Zal Yanovsky
(1944 - 2002)

Penny Valentine
(1943 - 2003)

George Harrison
(1943 - 2001)

Tom Dowd
(1925 - 2002)

Maurice Gibb
(1949 - 2003)

Hank Ballard
(1927 - 2003)

Adam Faith
(1940 - 2003)

Little Eva
(1943 - 2003)

Ian Samwell
(1937 - 2003)

Nina Simone
(1933 - 2003)

Felice Bryant
(1925 - 2003)

Mickie Most
(1938 - 2003)

Barry White
(1944 - 2003)

Sam Phillips
(1923 - 2003)

Tony Jackson
(1940 - 2003)

Johnny Cash
(1932 - 2003)

Bobby Hatfield
(1940 - 2003)

Don Gibson
(1928 - 2003)

Arthur Conley
(1946 - 2003)

Teddy Randazzo
(1935 - 2003)

Doris Troy
(1937 - 2004)

Dick St. John
(1940 - 2003)

Priscilla Paris
(1945 - 2004)

Jan Berry
(1941 - 2004)

Timi Yuro
(1940 - 2004)

Niki Sullivan
(1937 - 2004)

Estelle Axton
(1918 - 2004)

Johnny Bristol
(1939 - 2004)

Paul Atkinson
(1946 - 2004)

Ritchie Cordell
(1943 - 2004)

Barney Kessel
(1923 - 2004)

Ray Charles
(1930 - 2004)

Ersel Hickey
(1934 - 2004)

Syreeta
(1946 - 2004)

Arthur Crier
(1935 - 2004)

Carl Wayne
(1943 - 2004)

Billy Davis
(1932 - 2004)

Steve Duboff
(1941 - 2004)

Skeeter Davis
(1931 - 2004)

Dave Godin
(1936 - 2004)

John Peel
(1939 - 2004)

Greg Shaw
(1949 - 2004)

Terry Melcher
(1942 - 2004)

Freddie Perren
(1943 - 2004)

James Griffin
(1943 - 2005)

Ray Peterson
(1935 - 2005)

Jim Capaldi
(1944 - 2005)

Chris Curtis
(1941 - 2005)

Edward Patten
(1939 - 2005)

Tyrone Davis
(1938 - 2005)

Juggy Murray
(1923 - 2005)

Johnnie Johnson
(1924 - 2005)

John Fred
(1941 - 2005)

Jack Keller
(1946 - 2005)

Simon Waronker
(1915 - 2005)

Renaldo "Obie" Benson
(1937 - 2005)

Long John Baldry
(1941 - 2005)

Eugene Record
(1940 - 2005)

Dennis D'Ell
(1943 - 2005)

Little Milton
(1934 - 2005)

Shirley Goodman
(1936 - 2005)

The Duchess
(1942 - 2005)

Francine Barker
(1947 - 2005)

Ernie Johnson
(1937 - 2005)

Robert Moog
(1934 - 2005)

Laurel Aitken
(1927 - 2005)

Willie Hutch
(1944 - 2005)

Baker Knight
(1933 - 2005)

Link Wray
(1929 - 2005)

Tony Meehan
(1943 - 2005)

Danny Wiliams
(1942 - 2005)

Steve Tudanger
(1943 - 2006)

Joe Jones
(1926 - 2005)

Barry Cowsill
(1954 - 2005)

Wilson Pickett
(1941 - 2006)

Lou Rawls
(1933 - 2006)

Billy Cowsill
(1948 - 2006)

Helen Miller
(died 2006)

John Whitehead (1948 - 2004)
Gene McFadden (1949 - 2006)

Gene Pitney
(1940 - 2006)

Buck Owens
(1929 - 2006)

June Pointer
(1953 - 2006)

Desmond Dekker
(1941 - 2006)

Freddie Garrity
(1936 - 2006)

Billy Preston
(1946 - 2006)

Irving Green
(1916 - 2006)

Arif Mardin
(1932 - 2006)

Freddie Gorman
(1939 - 2006)

Syd Barrett
(1946 - 2006)

Barbara George
(1942 - 2006)

Arthur Lee
(1945 - 2006)

Maynard Ferguson
(1928 - 2006)

Richard Barrett
(c.1933 - 2006)

Willie Denson
(1936 - 2006)

Danny Flores
(1929 - 2006)

Al Casey
(1936 - 2006)

Jennifer Moss
(1945 - 2006)

Patrice Holloway
(1951 - 2006)

Marijohn Wilkin
(1920 - 2006)

Paul Mauriat
(1925 - 2006)

Buddy Killen
(1932 - 2006)

Ruth Brown
(1928 - 2006)

Alan Freeman
(1927 - 2006)

Jennell Hawkins
(1938 - 2006)

Mariska Veres
(1947 - 2006)

Ahmet Ertegun
(1923 - 2006)

Dan Folger
(1943 - 2006)

Dennis Linde
(1943 - 2006)

McArthur Munford
(1943 - 2006)

Walter Ward
(1940 - 2006)

Freddie Marsden
(1940 - 2006)

Denis Payton
(1943 - 2006)

Georgia Gibbs
(1919 - 2006)

James Brown
(1933 - 2006)