And as many as you like about whom you agonised, and those whom you believe had no more to contribute.
Lowell George
Nick Drake
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
Ian Curtis
Paul McCartney
How long has P McCartney been dead?
Savers:-
Buddy Holly
Cass Elliot
Jimi Hendrix
Freddy Mercury
Paul Kossoff
Karen Carpenter
NMTC;-
John Lennon
George Harrison
Elvis
Ian Dury
Agonised;-
Janice Joplin
Jim Morrison
Mozart (age 35)
Chopin (age 39)
Schubert (age 31)
Mendelssohn (age 38)
Gershwin (age 38)
Buddy Holly
Sam Cooke
Amy Winehouse
Bob Marley
Freddie Mercury
Otis Reading
John Lennon
Marvin Gaye
Tammi Terrell
Eva Cassidy
John Denver
Brooklyn # 3
What about Tchaikovsky, his suicide at fifty-three was fairly premature, as well as unnecessary?
Amy Winehouse
Sam Cooke
Tammi Terrell
Kurt Cobain
Karen Carpenter
Ian Curtis
Yes I loved Eva Cassidy too, still it was I who restricted it to six so I must put up with it, I suppose.
Bob Geldof.
Elliott Smith
Gram Parsons
Jeff Buckley
Jim Morrison
Nick Drake
Kirsty MacColl
Oh, hang on, sorry, prevent?
Oh actually, Marvin takes Karen Carpenter's place now I'm reminded.
Chopin
Hendrix
Buddy Holly
Jeff Buckley
Elliott Smith
Robert Johnson
A Hitler. By getting him that art scholarship early on, it may have prevented his premature demise in '45.
a fair question, mac. but: this is Merriam Webster:
<<1 : a skilled adept public performer; specifically : a musical or theatrical entertainer
2 : an artistic or creative person>>
so I included creative musical people.
apart from that, all (?) of those guys were at least conductors, I think. and certainly some were performers on instruments. for example, Gershwin was a piano player, and did a heck of a job on the keyboards. the world premier of rhapsody in blue (at the then-swanky ballroom of the St. George hotel in Brooklyn Heights) is often played, and that's George himself on piano.
as to Tchaikovsky, donk, I did an arbitrary cut-off at age 49.
It would be helpful to classify into the categories, I think - i.e. saved; NMTC; agonised. Not obligatory though.
#14 Bah! Beat me to it
Do we get to choose who has to take their place?
as to Tchaikovsky, donk, I did an arbitrary cut-off at age 49.
Bugger. I've got a few weeks to knock out some banging tunes and snuff it.