ROCK-on Worldwide

November’s deaths have no patterns to them, just losses from the world’s greatest band, the world’s most popular Rock singer and the drummer for the world’s greatest Rock guitarist.

GEORGE HARRISON – BORN 24TH FEBRUARY 1943 – DIED 29TH NOVEMBER 2001
I remember George Harrison describing life in the Beatles when he was interviewed alongside Ringo for a TV documentary at the time they released the Beatles 1 CD. He said that people had forgotten how good they were as a live band: “we were just so tight” and people also forget in the post Cream, post Prog Rock era of long, self indulgent, “virtuoso” guitar breaks and meandering tunes that the musicianship of the Beatles was focused on the band as the entity, not on individual members and that they perfected the 3 minute single, “She Loves You”, the LP “Revolver” and the Concept Album “Sgt Pepper” before anyone else had ever thought of it.

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Bono – Paul David Hewson
David Bowie – David Robert Jones
David Crosby – David Van Cortland
Alice Cooper – Vincent Damon Furnier
Elvis Costello – Declan McManus
Bo Didley – Othas Elass Bates McDaniel
Bob Dylan – Robert Zimmerman
Davis Essex – David Cook
Daryl Hall – Daryl Franklyn Hohl
Jimi Hendrix – James Marshall Hendricks
Bily Idol – William Broad
Tom Jones – Thomas Jones Woodward
Dr John – Malcolm John Rebennack
B.B. King – Riley B King
Little Richard – Richard Wayne Penniman
Meatloaf – Marvin Lee Aday
Freddie Mercury – Farouk Bulsara
George Michael – Yorgos Pannayiotou
Gram Parsons – Ingram Cecil Conner II
Iggy Pop – James Jewell Osterberg Jnr
Leon Russell – Claude Russell Bridges
Cat Stevens – Steve Georgiou
Sting – Gordon Matthew Sumner
The Edge – David Howell Evans
Booker T – Alan Jones
Sid Vicious – John Simon Ritchie
Howlin’ Wolf – Cgester Arthur Burnett