Music's Oldest

[YoungWillz 21,053]

Ska/Two Tone boy here too, well aware of Prince Buster.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

 

 

 

At a guess off the top of my head, I'd say Spade would prove that wrong. Possibly MPFC and TMIB too.

 

Indeed - even played him on the radio; summat that'll happen again when I get round to recording the "List of the Lost" show made up entirely of talents we lost in 2016, currently shaping up as summat of an embarrassment of riches.

Aye - You've got Bowie, Prince, Cohen, Jefferson Airplane, Buster, Thunderclap Newman, Swarbrick, Clannad, Dio, ELP, Black, Maxwell Davies, Haggard, Mott the Hoople, Surfer Blood, the Eagles, Funkadelic, Blowfly, Wings, and that's just off the top of my head.

How can you forget The Beatles!??

 

 

 

We've given them a swerve in favour of one of George Martin's other production projects.

 

Reet, after them teasers the script's in lockdown pending another major music death!

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yup....another thread.....guess my life is an empty rat hole.........don't ban be for making so many threads in here, please

 

Vera Lynn - 1917

 

Doris Day - 1922

Charles Aznavour - 1924

Tony Bennett - 1926

Chuck Berry - 1926

Juliette Greco - 1927

Harry Belafonte - 1927

Fats Domino - 1928

Burt Bacharach - 1928

Ennio Morricone - 1928

 

Della Reese - 1931

Loretta Lynn - 1932

Little Richard - 1932

Willie Nelson - 1933

Cissy Houston - 1933

Jerry Lee Lewis - 1935

Glen Campbell - 1936

Engelbert Humperdinck - 1936

Kris Kristofferson - 1936

Bill Wyman - 1936

Shirley Bassey - 1937

Kenny Rogers - 1938

Connie Francis - 1938

Jerry Allison - 1939

Ginger Baker - 1939

Tina Turner - 1939

 

Smokey Robinson - 1940

Tom Jones - 1940

Ringo Starr - 1940

Cliff Richard - 1940

Dionne Warwick - 1940

Placido Domingo - 1941

Neil Diamond - 1941

Bob Dylan - 1941

Charlie Watts - 1941

Paul Simon - 1941

Art Garfunkel - 1941

Carole King - 1942

John Cale - 1942

Aretha Franklin - 1942

Wayne Newton - 1942

Barbra Streisand - 1942

Paul McCartney - 1942

Brian Wilson - 1942

Barry Manilow - 1943

Mick Jagger - 1943

Roger Waters - 1943

Julio Iglesias - 1943

Joni Mitchell - 1943

Keith Richards - 1943

Jimmy Page - 1944

Roger Daltrey - 1944

Diana Ross - 1944

Patti LaBelle - 1944

Gladys Knight - 1944

Maureen Tucker - 1944

Jeff Beck - 1944

Rod Stewart - 1945

Eric Clapton - 1945

Bjorn - 1945

Pete Townsend - 1945

Carly Simon - 1945

Debbie Harry - 1945

Van Morrison - 1945

Neil Young - 1945

Frida - 1945

Bette Midler - 1945

Robby Krieger - 1946

John Paul Jones - 1946

Dolly Parton - 1946

David Gilmour - 1946

Liza Minnelli - 1946

Donovan - 1946

Robert Fripp - 1946

Cher - 1946

Linda Ronstadt - 1946

Barry Gibb - 1946

Jose Carreras - 1946

Benny - 1946

Patti Smith - 1946

 

2016:

- David Bowie 1947 - 2016 (69) - Glenn Frey 1948 - 2016 (67) - Maurice White 1941 - 2016 (74) - Merle Haggard 1937 - 2016 (79) - Prince 1958 - 2016 (57) - Leonard Cohen 1934 - 2016 (82)

 

Robert Fripp ain't going anywhere yet, except touring the world with King Crimson as he is currently doing...

 

If you're looking for older musicians, the members of German krautrock group Can are pretty old: Irmin Schmidt for 1937, Holger Czukay for 1938 and Jaki Liebezeit for 1939, although none of them would be household names by any stretch of the imagination.

 

Also Grace Slick should be on for 1939. And Robert Wyatt for 1945. And Jon Anderson for 1944. And countless others.

 

(And, Andy Summers of The Police for 1942).

 

 

He didn't have Prince Buster either

 

None of us even heard of him until we all saw Wiki death page......

 

 

I take it you're not familiar with the work of Madness or The Specials then.

Speaking for myself, my friend's older brother had the single 'Al Capone' and we used to dance to it as tiny tots.

 

I guess I'm not in that generation, I'm just honest, never heard of him until I saw a big fuss here. Billboard hardly even wrote about him when he died. I grew up with the biggest hits and biggest stars but I think I know more of these people then 90% of my generation. I'm also not into British rock and pop scene so I hardly ever heard of most bands mentioned by other people here.