Who's your favorite Musician who died of an illness/disease?

Question

Drug over-dose counts too. :)

I bet you can't guess who mine is. :)

Answer 1

What a cheerful soul you are lol ........mmmm I felt sick for 3 days when Lennon was shot (lead poisoning), the blackest day in rock ever.

Rory Storm - a haunting story.

Brian Epstein - 32 years old and with some much hope? (yes a manager sorry).

The singing Nun - commited suicide (sad story).

ok enough.

George was too young to go.  

Answer 2

George Harrison.

Epstein, since you said he counted.

Freddie Mercury (Most of you forgot him =p)

...Yeah.

Well George was 58, John was 40. People have to remember that pre-modern medicine, or all medicine, man would only live to 40, at least that's what I read somewhere.

If you're talking young, Hendrix. 27...

Answer 3

Michael Hutchence, the original singer of INXS.

Answer 4

(John Lennon was (murdered), but yes. a crying shame.  There were many, among my favorites are Harrison, Garcia, and Brent Midland from the Dead.  Oh, and there is Jimmy, Janice, and so on....

Answer 5

George Harrison is definitely up there. A unique voice and strong musician. I hate watching archival Beatles footage and seeing him CONSTANTLY smoking. I want to jump into the past and yell, "Stop George!" =( But he was great and his brilliant music lives on and on.

Others are -

Syd Barrett, the first Pink Floyd frontman (pancreatic cancer)

Miles Davis (pneumonia, respiratory failure, stroke)

Nick Drake (antidepressant overdose)

Linda McCartney (breast cancer)

Jimmy McCulloch, Wings guitarist (heroin overdose)

Jim Morrison (drug overdose... right?)

Answer 6

Johnny & Joey Ramone, and Joe Strummer.

EDIT: To the guy who said Kurt Cobain, a shotgun is not a disease.

Answer 7

Freddy Mercury

Answer 8

Freddy Mercury...champion!

Answer 9

Chuck Schuldiner

Answer 10

Is depression a disease?

---> suicide = Kurt Cobain & Elliott Smith. Although Cobain's could be disputed. Actually, both could be disputed. Fuhget it.

Answer 11

Chuck Shuldiner

Answer 12

George Harrison really is my favorite.

My second favorite would be Jimi Hendrix.

Answer 13

Jeff Healey!

His story is really sad.

He lost both of his eyes to cancer at only 8 months old!

Cancer free for 38 years and then gets cancer of the connective or supportive tissue (bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels) and soft tissue which spread to his lungs and was the eventual cause of death.

Edit: Hard Day's Night, I believe Mercury's Girl is talking about Freddie Mercury not George Harrison being g*y!

It's just not very clear the way she wrote it.  She just wanted him to Stop Smoking.

Answer 14

Freddie Mercury, RIP

Answer 15

George Harrision. i ♥ him he was so amasing and talented! i wish he was still around and i wish John Lennon was still around  :( rip George and John! sorry John dident die of a disease but i fell i should add him!

Answer 16

Mine Is George Harrison, died at such a young age too, same age as my dad when he died.

George and Ringo are the best, and such good lookers too.

Answer 17

Brad Delp from Boston. He was mentally ill, which caused him to commit suicide. He was a great singer. Also my very good friend, John Entwistle. He dies of a heart attack. He was and still is the best bassist in the world!

  

Answer 18

Elvis-over dosed ,still debated so is Jim Morrison-over dosed,if plane crash count,Buddy Holly and Ricky Nelson  

Answer 19

Freddie Mercury :)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I guessed right for you... hehe.

Guitarist93- I see where you're coming from with that, but Kurt Cobain really didn't die because of the heroin. And I like the 'Animals' icon.

As for you, A Hard Day's Night, that picture is ADORABLE. :)

Answer 20

Karen Carpenter - The entire world was at a loss for words when we lost her voice.  That's also when anorexia nervosa became a household word.

Answer 21

Among mine I select Bob Marley, though Stevie Ray Vaughan is a close second.

I'm guessing yours is George Harrison, who died of lung cancer 29 Novembre 2001

Answer 22

Bob Marley

Otis Redding

Janis Joplin

Minnie Riperton

Jimi Hendrix

Answer 23

Freddie Mercury

Answer 24

Jim Morrison.

Answer 25

George Harrison.  

Answer 26

Joe Strummer who died on December 22 2002 of a undisclosed heart condition who was 50 years old his birthday which was 6 days ago he would have been 56 and he died very young

Answer 27

Freddy Mercury: AIDS

Answer 28

Since disease and illness aren't chosen, that won't include those like Jimi, Cobain and others though I love their music.

I'm a rock-n-roller,  but I choose Mozart.

Answer 29

It is really hard for me because i pretty much only listen to dead musicians, but some of my favourites would have to be John Lennon, George Harrison, Jim Morrison, Johnny Cash, Dimebag Darrel, Freddy Mercury, John Denver, Michael Hutchense, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Bon Scott, John Bonham, Keith Moon, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Bob Marley, Duane Allman, Steve Clark, John Entwistle and much more.

Answer 30

Keith Moon, John Entwistle, Freddie Mercury,Joe Strummer, and Janis Joplin

i love them all. i cant pick only one.

Answer 31

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Freddie Mercury. it will be 17 years since AIDS devoured his body to the point of death on November 24th.

like was said about George harrison and the somking (he's my second favourite), when i see him acting all g*y and talking about s*x, i just think "stop it. STOP IT!! turn straight, go marry Mary Austin, just dont sleep with that g*y freak you met in a club!". he was so full of life. He shouldn't have died, he wasn't the type...

he was 45 when he died, but he got AIDS around 5 years earlier (to his knowledge), and when he found out, he stopped smoking, drinking, and doing everything that he loved, but shouldn't do. he must have died in misery... =,[