The biggest deaths in Music - 2013

Claudio Leo
Day of - January 16, 2013
Where ?Ceglie Messapica, Italy
Age - 40

John Wayne Carroll, usually known as Gregory Carroll or Greg Carroll, was an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was a member of several successful vocal harmony or "doo-wop" groups including The Four Buddies and The Orioles, and co-wrote and produced Doris Troy's 1963 hit "Just One Look".

Age - 83
Date -January 25, 2013
Where -Creston, North Carolina, USA

Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner was a multi-instumentalist member of the famous funk group the Ohio Players

Age -69
Date - January 26, 2013
Where - Trotwood, Ohio, USA
Cause - Cancer

Kenny Hodges played Bass and gave vocals for the band in 1968-1969

Age - 76
Date - January 29, 2013
Where - Papillion, Nebraska, USA

Cecil Dale Womack (September 25, 1947 – February 1, 2013) was an American R&B singer, songwriter and record producer. He was one of the musical Womack brothers, and had success both as a songwriter and recording artist, notably with his wife Linda as Womack and Womack. In later years he took the name Zekkariyas.

Age - 65
Date -February 1, 2013
Where - South Africa

Reg Presley (born Reginald Maurice Ball; 12 June 1941 – 4 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter. He was best known as the lead singer with the 1960s rock and roll band The Troggs, whose best known hit was "Wild Thing", though their only UK number one single was the follow-up "With a Girl Like You". He also wrote the song "Love Is All Around" which featured in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Age -71
Date - February 4, 2013
Where - Andover, Hampshire, England
Cause - Lung cancer

Tony Sheridan (born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity, 21 May 1940 – 16 February 2013), was an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was best known as an early collaborator of The Beatles, (though the record was labelled as being with "The Beat Brothers"), one of two non-Beatles (the other being Billy Preston) to receive label performance credit on a record with the group, and the only non-Beatle to appear as lead singer on a Beatles recording which charted as a single.

Age -72
Date- February 16, 2013
Where- Hamburg, Germany

Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter and a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album was The Unfairground, recorded in New York City, Tucson, and London in 2006.

Age -68
Date - February 18, 2013
Where - Montolieu, France

Dan Toler (September 23, 1948 – February 25, 2013), also known as "Dangerous Dan Toler", was an American guitarist, who played for The Allman Brothers Band

Age - 64
Date -February 25, 2013
Where -Manatee County, Florida, USA
Cause -Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes, 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was a British guitarist and singer, best known as the lead guitarist and singer with the blues-rock/pop band Ten Years After.

Age-68
Date- March 6, 2013
Where - Marbella, Spain

Peter Banks (15 July 1947 – 7 March 2013) was a British guitarist. He was the original guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes. The BBC's Danny Baker and Big George often called Banks "The Architect of Progressive Music"

Age -65
Date -March 7, 2013
Where -London, England
Cause - Heart failure

Clive Burr (8 March 1957 – 12 March 2013) was an English drummer, best known as a member of Iron Maiden from 1979 to 1982.

Age -56
Date-March 12, 2013
Where - London, England
Cause - Multiple sclerosis

Chi Cheng (July 15, 1970 – April 13, 2013) was an American musician, best known as the bassist for the American alternative metal band Deftones. His career came to an abrupt halt in 2008, when he was involved in a serious automobile accident in Santa Clara, California. After the accident, he remained in a semi-comatose state for four years before dying of a cardiac arrest in April 2013.

Age -42
Date -April 13, 2013
Where - Sacramento, California, USA
Cause -Complications after car crash in 2008

Christine Joy "Chrissy" Amphlett (/æmflət/; 25 October 1959 – 21 April 2013) was an Australian singer who was the frontwoman of the Australian rock band Divinyls.

Age -53
Date - April 21, 2013
Where- New York City, New York, USA
Cause - Breast Cancer

Jeffrey John "Jeff" Hanneman (January 31, 1964 – May 2, 2013) was an American musician, best known as a founding member of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Hanneman contributed both lyrical and musical material to every Slayer album and wrote the songs "Raining Blood", "War Ensemble", "South of Heaven", "Mandatory Suicide", "Chemical Warfare", "Seasons in the Abyss" and "Angel of Death", which have been played at almost every live Slayer show. He had his own signature guitar, the ESP Jeff Hanneman Signature model.

Age -49
Date -May 2, 2013
Where -Los Angeles, California, USA
Cause - Liver failure

Phil Buerstatte was drummer fro White Zombie from 1992-1994.

Age -44
Date - May 20, 2013
Where - Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr. (February 12, 1939 – May 20, 2013) was an American musician, singer, producer, film director, and author, best known as a founding member and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973. He was a co-founding member of Nite City from 1977 to 1978, and of Manzarek–Krieger from 2001 to his death.

Age -74
Date -May 20, 2013
Where -Rosenheim, Germany
Cause - Bile duct cancer

Trevor Bolder (9 June 1950 – 21 May 2013) was an English rock bassist, musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his long association with Uriah Heep and his tenure with The Spiders from Mars, the one-time backing band for David Bowie, although he also played alongside a variety of musicians from the early 1970s.

Age -62
Date - May 21, 2013
Where - Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Cause - Cancer

Joseph "Joey" Edward Covington (June 27, 1945 – June 4, 2013) was an American drummer, best known for his involvements with Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.

Age -67
Date - June 4, 2013
Where- Palm Springs, California, USA
Cause -Car accident

Alan Myers (1955 – June 24, 2013) was an American drummer. He was the third and most prominent drummer of the band Devo.

Age-58
Date -June 24, 2013
Where - Los Angeles, California, USA
Cause - Stomach cancer

Allen Glover Lanier (June 25, 1946 – August 14, 2013) was an original member of Blue Öyster Cult. Lanier played keyboards and rhythm guitar

Age -67
Date - 14 August 2013
Where - USA
Cause - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Joey Lacaze was the drummer for Eyehategod since 1989 until his death in 2013 .

Age - 42
Date - 23 August 2013
Where - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Cause - Respiratory failure

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. After serving as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, his solo career spanned several decades.
The Velvet Underground was a commercial failure in the late 1960s, but the group gained a considerable cult following in the years since its demise and has gone on to become one of the most widely cited and influential bands of the era – hence Brian Eno's famous quote that while the Velvet Underground's debut album only sold 30,000 copies, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."
After his departure from the group, Reed began a solo career in 1972. He had a hit the following year with "Walk on the Wild Side", but subsequently lacked the mainstream commercial success its chart status seemed to indicate. Reed was known for his distinctive deadpan voice, poetic lyrics and for pioneering and coining the term ostrich guitar tuning.

Age -71
Date - 27 October 2013
Where -Long Island, USA
Cause - Liver disease

Richard Coughlan (2 September 1947 – 1 December 2013) was an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist of the Canterbury scene progressive rock band Caravan. He was one of the founding members of Caravan in 1968 and remained with the band until his death. AllMusic called Coughlan "one of art rock's longest tenured musicians"

Age -66
Date -1 December 2013
Where - Herne Bay, England
Cause -pneumonia