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This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2020.

2020 deaths in popular music[edit]

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2019 		List of deaths in popular music
2020 		Succeeded by
2021
Name Age Date Location of death Cause of death
Lexii Alijai 21 January 1, 2020 Minneapolis, Minnesota Fentanyl and ethanol overdose[1][2]
Marty Grebb
The Buckinghams 		74 January 1, 2020 Unknown[3]
Tommy Hancock 90 January 1, 2020 Unknown[4]
Lorraine Chandler 73 January 2, 2020 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Undisclosed causes[5]
Bo Winberg
The Spotnicks		 80 January 3, 2020 Unknown[6]
Martin Griffin
Ark, Sonic Assassins, Hawklords, Hawkwind		 69 January 6, 2020 Unknown[7]
Neil Peart
Rush 		67 January 7, 2020 Santa Monica, California, U.S. Glioblastoma[8]
Edd Byrnes 87 January 8, 2020 Santa Monica, California, U.S. Natural causes[9]
Bobby Comstock 78 January 9, 2020 At his home in Southern California, U.S. Unknown[10]
Tom Alexander
The Alexander Brothers		 85 January 9, 2020 Unknown[11]
Marc Morgan 57 January 10, 2020 Unknown[12]
Alana Filippi 59 January 11, 2020 Unknown[13]
Steve Martin Caro
The Left Banke		 71 January 14, 2020 Heart disease[14]
Chris Darrow
Kaleidoscope, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band		 75 January 15, 2020 Complications from a stroke[15]
David Olney 71 January 18, 2020 Fort Walton Beach, Florida, U.S. Heart attack[16]
Robert Parker 89 January 19, 2020 Roseland, Louisiana, U.S. Natural causes[17]
Meritxell Negre
Peaches & Herb		 48 January 21, 2020 Barcelona, Spain Cancer[18]
Joe Payne
Divine Heresy, Nile		 35 January 24, 2020 Tampa, Florida, U.S. Undisclosed cause[19]
Sean Reinert
Cynic, Death, Æon Spoke		 48 January 24, 2020 San Bernardino, California, U.S. Aortic rupture[20]
Reed Mullin
Corrosion Of Conformity
Teenage Time Killers		 53 January 27, 2020 Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. Unknown[21]
Bob Nave
The Lemon Pipers		 75 January 28, 2020 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. Unknown[22]
Andy Gill
Gang of Four		 64 February 1, 2020 London, England Pneumonia and multiple organ failure[23][24]
Josh Pappé
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Gang Green		 53 February 1, 2020 Texas, U.S. Unknown[25]
Ivan Král
Patti Smith Group		 71 February 2, 2020 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. Cancer[26][27]
Buddy Cage
New Riders of the Purple Sage		 73 February 5, 2020 Connecticut, U.S. Multiple myeloma[28]
Lynn Evans Mand
The Chordettes		 95 February 6, 2020 Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. Possible natural causes[29]
Steve Weber
The Holy Modal Rounders		 76 February 7, 2020 Mount Clare, West Virginia, U.S. Cause not disclosed[30]
Lyle Mays
Pat Metheny Group		 66 February 10, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Died after battling an undisclosed illness[31]
Joseph Shabalala
Ladysmith Black Mambazo		 79 February 11, 2020 Pretoria, South Africa Natural causes[32]
Paul English 87 February 12, 2020 Dallas, Texas, U.S. Pneumonia[33]
Jacob Thiele
The Faint		 40 February 13, 2020 Cause not revealed[34]
Henry Gray 95 February 17, 2020 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. Unknown[35]
Andrew Weatherall 56 February 17, 2020 London, England Pulmonary embolism[36]
Pop Smoke 20 February 19, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Shot[37]
Elyse Weinberg 74 February 20, 2020 Ashland, Oregon, U.S. Lung cancer[38][39]
David Roback
Mazzy Star 		61 February 25, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Metastatic cancer[40]
Mike Somerville
Head East 		67 February 28, 2020 Undisclosed illness[41]
Simon Posthuma
The Fool 		81 February 28, 2020 Amsterdam, Netherlands Korsakoff syndrome[42]
Nelė Paltinienė
Kopų Balsai		 91 February 29, 2020 Mannheim, Germany Pneumonia
Barbara Martin
The Supremes		 76 March 4, 2020 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Unknown[43]
McCoy Tyner
John Coltrane Quartet		 81 March 6, 2020 Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S. Undisclosed causes[44]
Charlie Baty
Little Charlie & the Nightcats		 66 March 6, 2020 Vacaville, California, U.S. Heart attack[45]
Eric Taylor 70 March 9, 2020 Austin, Texas, U.S. Liver disease[46]
Keith Olsen
Record producer and sound engineer from The Music Machine		 74 March 9, 2020 Geona, Nevada, U.S. Cardiac arrest[47]
Genesis P-Orridge
Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV		 70 March 14, 2020 New York, New York, U.S. Leukaemia[48]
Phil Phillips 94 March 14, 2020 Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S. Unknown[49]
Jason Rainey
Sacred Reich		 53 March 16, 2020 Heart attack[50]
Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition		 81 March 20, 2020 Sandy Springs, Georgia, U.S. Natural causes[51]
Jerry Slick
The Great Society		 80 March 20, 2020 Unknown[52]
Julie Felix 81 March 22, 2020 Undisclosed illness[53]
Gabi Delgado
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft		 61 March 22, 2020 Either in a hospital in Portugal or in Córdoba, Spain Heart attack[54]
Manu Dibango 86 March 24, 2020 Melun, France COVID-19[55]
Bill Rieflin
King Crimson, R.E.M.		 59 March 24, 2020 Cancer[56]
Neil Landon
The Ivy League, Fat Mattress		 78 March 26, 2020 Hamburg, Germany Cancer[57]
Bob Andy 75 March 27, 2020 Kingston, Jamaica Cancer[58]
Joe Diffie 61 March 27, 2020 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. COVID-19[59]
Lou "L.A." Kouvaris
Riot		 66 March 28, 2020 Unknown, likely COVID-19[60]
Alan Merrill
Arrows		 69 March 29, 2020 Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. COVID-19[61]
Bill Withers 81 March 30, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Heart complications[62]
Cristina
Singer with ZE Records		 64 March 31, 2020 New York City, New York, U.S. COVID-19[63]
Adam Schlesinger
Fountains of Wayne, Ivy		 52 April 1, 2020 Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. COVID-19[64]
Vaughan Mason
Vaughan Mason & Crew		 69 April 3, 2020 New York City, New York, U.S. Unknown[65]
Patrick Gibson
The Gibson Brothers		 64 April 4, 2020 COVID-19[66]
John Prine 73 April 7, 2020 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Complications caused by COVID-19[67]
Hutch Davie
Songwriter and arranger		 89 April 7, 2020 West Orange, New Jersey, U.S. Unknown[68]
Steve Farmer
The Amboy Dukes		 71 April 7, 2020 Redford, Michigan, U.S. Died at his home, unspecified cause[69]
Glenn Fredly 44 April 8, 2020 Jakarta, Indonesia Meningitis[70]
Carl Dobkins Jr. 79 April 8, 2020 Unknown[71]
Kenny Young
Songwriter and member of Fox		 79 April 14, 2020 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England Cancer[72]
Christophe 74 April 16, 2020 Brest, Brittany, France COVID-19[73]
Barney Ales
Music industry executive from Motown Records		 85 April 17, 2020 Unknown[74]
Matthew Seligman
The Soft Boys, Thompson Twins		 64 April 17, 2020 London, England Stroke following COVID-19 infection[75]
Terry Doran
Beatles associate, manager of Grapefruit		 80 April 19, 2020 London, England Parkinson's disease or COVID-19[76]
Ian Whitcomb 78 April 19, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Stroke[77]
Ronan O'Rahilly
Founder of Radio Caroline 		79 April 20, 2020 Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland Vascular dementia[78]
Derek Jones
Falling in Reverse 		35 April 21, 2020 Unknown[79]
Florian Schneider
Kraftwerk 		73 April 21, 2020 Düsseldorf, Germany Cancer[80]
Hamilton Bohannon 78 April 24, 2020 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. [81]
Young Jessie 83 April 27, 2020 Unknown[82]
Scott Taylor
Then Jerico 		58 April 27, 2020 Brain tumor[83]
Bobby Lewis 95 April 28, 2020 Pneumonia[84]
Tavo Limongi
Resorte		 52 May 1, 2020 Heart attack due to COVID-19 complications[85]
Erwin Prasetya
Dewa 19		 48 May 2, 2020 Indonesia Gastrointestinal bleeding[86]
Dave Greenfield
The Stranglers		 71 May 3, 2020 COVID-19 induced heart failure[87]
Bob Lander
The Spotnicks		 78 May 3, 2020 [88]
Millie Small 72 May 5, 2020 London, England Stroke[89]
Sweet Pea Atkinson
Was (Not Was)		 74 May 5, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Heart attack[90]
Brian Howe
Ted Nugent, Bad Company		 66 May 6, 2020 Lake Placid, Florida, U.S. Heart attack[91]
Agustín Villegas
Los Solitarios		 79 May 6, 2020 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico Cardiorespiratory arrest
Little Richard 87 May 9, 2020 Tullahoma, Tennessee, U.S. Bone cancer[92]
Betty Wright 66 May 10, 2020 Miami, Florida, U.S. Cancer[93]
Moon Martin 69 May 11, 2020 Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Natural causes[94]
Alberto Carpani 64 May 11, 2020 Portofino, Italy Pneumonia[95]
Derek Lawrence
Producer of Deep Purple and Wishbone Ash		 78 May 13, 2020 Peterborough, England Cancer[96]
Yoshio 70 May 13, 2020 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico COVID-19
Jorge Santana
Malo		 68 May 14, 2020 San Rafael, California, U.S. Natural causes[97]
Phil May
Pretty Things 		75 May 15, 2020 Norfolk, England Complications following hip surgery[98]
Mory Kanté 70 May 22, 2020 Conakry, Guinea Untreated chronic health problems[99]
Jimmy Cobb
Miles Davis Quintet		 91 May 24, 2020 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Lung cancer[100]
Al Rex
Bill Haley & His Comets		 91 May 25, 2020 Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S. Pneumonia[101]
Joey Image
Misfits		 63 June 1, 2020 Liver cancer[102]
Chris Trousdale
Dream Street		 34 June 2, 2020 Burbank, California, U.S. Died of undisclosed illness[103]
Steve Priest
The Sweet		 72 June 4, 2020 Died of undisclosed cause, after health failure[104]
Rupert Hine
Record producer from Thinkman, Quantum Jump		 72 June 4, 2020 Wiltshire, England Undisclosed cause, although he had renal cancer and arrhythmia[105]
Frank Bey 74 June 7, 2020 Glenolden, Pennsylvania, U.S. Undisclosed illness[106]
Bonnie Pointer
The Pointer Sisters		 69 June 8, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Cardiac arrest[107]
Paul Chapman
UFO, Lone Star 		66 June 9, 2020 Died on his 66th birthday of undisclosed cause[108]
Ricky Valance 84 June 12, 2020 Dementia[109]
Keith Tippett
Centipede, Mujician		 72 June 14, 2020 Pneumonia[110]
Yohan
TST 		28 June 16, 2020 Unknown cause, possible suicide[111]
Vera Lynn 103 June 18, 2020 Ditchling, East Sussex, England Undisclosed cause[112]
Hux Brown
Toots and the Maytals		 75 June 18, 2020 Oakland, California, U.S. Died in a Home Depot parking lot of unknown cause[113]
Huey 31 June 26, 2020 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Shot[114]
Tami Lynn 78 June 26, 2020 New Port Richey, Florida, U.S. Undisclosed cause[115]
Pete Carr
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section		 70 June 27, 2020 Florence, Alabama, U.S. Undisclosed cause[116]
Tom Finn
The Left Banke		 71 June 27, 2020 New York City, U.S. Died after long battle with undisclosed illness[117]
Benny Mardones 73 June 29, 2020 Menifee, California, U.S. Parkinson's disease[118]
Max Crook 83 July 1, 2020 Undisclosed cause[119]
Marvin Brown
The Softones 		66 July 3, 2020 At the MedStar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Undisclosed cause[120]
Charlie Daniels 83 July 6, 2020 Hermitage, Tennessee, U.S. Stroke[121]
Ennio Morricone 91 July 6, 2020 Rome, Italy fractured his femur in a fall.
Naya Rivera 33 July 8, 2020 Lake Piru, California, U.S. Drowning[122]
Rich Priske
Matthew Good Band		 52 July 11, 2020 Heart attack[123]
Judy Dyble
Fairport Convention, Trader Horne 		71 July 12, 2020 Lung cancer[124]
Emitt Rhodes 70 July 19, 2020 Hawthorne, California Natural causes[125]
Tim Smith
Cardiacs, The Sea Nymphs 		59 July 21, 2020 Heart attack[126]
Sean O'Mahony
Founder of The Beatles Book and Record Collector		 88 July 21, 2020 [127]
Peter Green
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac		 73 July 25, 2020 Canvey Island, Essex, UK [128]
Shmoulik Avigal
Picture, The Rods		 65 July 30, 2020 Florida, U.S. Cancer[129]
Steve Holland
Molly Hatchet		 66 August 2, 2020 Georgia, U.S. Pneumonia following COVID-19 infection[130]
Tony Costanza
Machine Head		 52 August 4, 2020 [131]
Jan Savage
The Seeds		 77 August 5, 2020 [132]
Wayne Fontana 74 August 6, 2020 Stockport, England Cancer[133]
Mark Wirtz
A Teenage Opera		 76 August 7, 2020 Pick's disease[134]
Salome Bey 86 August 8, 2020 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dementia[135]
Martin Birch
Record producer 		71 August 9, 2020 [136]
Trini Lopez 83 August 11, 2020 Palm Springs, California, U.S. COVID-19[137]
Pat Fairley
Marmalade		 76 August 11, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Undisclosed[138]
Pete Way
UFO, Waysted, Fastway 		69 August 14, 2020 Injuries from accident two months earlier[139]
Jack Sherman
Red Hot Chili Peppers 		64 August 18, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Heart attack[140]
Frankie Banali
Quiet Riot, W.A.S.P. 		68 August 20, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Pancreatic cancer[141]
Justin Townes Earle 38 August 20, 2020 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Drug overdose[142]
Mike Kirkland
The Brothers Four		 82 August 20, 2020 U.S. Cancer[143]
Walter Lure
The Heartbreakers		 71 August 22, 2020 Flushing Hospital, U.S. Liver and lung cancer[144]
Riley Gale
Power Trip		 34 August 24, 2020 Dallas, Texas, U.S. Drug overdose[145]
Gerry McGhee
Brighton Rock		 58 August 25, 2020 Canada Cancer[146]
Erick Morillo
Reel 2 Real		 49 September 1, 2020 Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. Acute ketamine toxicity[147]
Ian Mitchell
Bay City Rollers 		62 September 1, 2020 U.S. Throat cancer[148]
Simeon Coxe
Silver Apples 		82 September 4, 2020 Fairhope, Alabama, U.S. Pulmonary fibrosis[149]
Lucille Starr 82 September 4, 2020 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Long illness[150]
Bruce Williamson
The Temptations		 49 September 6, 2020 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. COVID-19[151]
Xavier Ortiz
Garibaldi		 48 September 6, 2020 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Suicide
Ronald Bell
Kool & the Gang 		68 September 9, 2020 U.S. Virgin Islands [152]
Toots Hibbert
Toots & the Maytals		 77 September 11, 2020 Kingston, Jamaica COVID-19[153]
Charles Howard Patrick
The Monotones		 82-83 September 11, 2020 Unknown
Edna Wright
Honey Cone 		76 September 12, 2020 [154]
Pamela Hutchinson
The Emotions		 61 September 18, 2020 U.S. Died after a long battle with an undisclosed illness[155]
Lee Kerslake
Uriah Heep, Ozzy Osbourne, Living Loud, Toe Fat		 73 September 19, 2020 Prostate cancer[156]
Tommy DeVito
The Four Seasons		 92 September 21, 2020 Las Vegas, U.S. COVID-19[157]
Roy Head 79 September 21, 2020 Montgomery County, Texas, U.S. Heart attack[158]
Juliette Gréco 93 September 24, 2020 Ramatuelle, France [159]
Max Merritt
The Meteors		 79 September 24, 2020 Los Angeles, U.S. Autoimmune disease[160]
Mark Stone
Van Halen		 79 September 26, 2020 U.S. Cancer[161]
Jackie Dennis 77 September 28, 2020 [162]
Mac Davis 78 September 29, 2020 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Complications from heart surgery.[163]
Helen Reddy 78 September 29, 2020 Los Angeles, U.S. Addison's disease[164]
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen 		65 October 6, 2020 Santa Monica, U.S. Throat cancer[165]
Johnny Nash 80 October 6, 2020 Houston, U.S. Natural causes[166]
Brian Locking
The Shadows		 82 October 8, 2020 North Wales Bladder cancer[167]
Dave Munden
The Tremeloes		 76 October 15, 2020 Respiratory infection[168]
Gordon Haskell
The Fleur de Lys, King Crimson		 74 October 16, 2020 Cancer[169]
Chet "JR" White
Girls		 40 October 18, 2020 Santa Cruz, California, U.S. Heart failure[170]
Spencer Davis
Spencer Davis Group		 81 October 19, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Heart attack[171]
Tony Lewis
The Outfield		 62 October 19, 2020 London, England Unknown[172]
Jerry Jeff Walker 78 October 23, 2020 Austin, Texas, U.S. Throat cancer[173]
MF DOOM
Madvillain		 49 October 31, 2020 (announced on December 31, 2020) Leeds, England Angioedema following a reaction to a blood pressure medication
Tom Wolgers
Lustans Lakejer, Mockba Music		 61 November 3, 2020 Cancer[174]
Ken Hensley
Uriah Heep, Toe Fat, The Gods, Blackfoot		 75 November 4, 2020 Agost, Spain [175]
Len Barry
The Dovells		 78 November 5, 2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Mmyelodysplasia[176]
Bones Hillman
Midnight Oil		 62 November 7, 2020 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. Cancer[177]
Jim Tucker
The Turtles		 74 November 12, 2020 [178]
Henry Slaughter
The Weatherford Quartet, The Imperials, Bill Gaither		 93 November 13, 2020 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Complications of COVID-19[179]
Donnie Grant
Guys 'n' Dolls		 71 November 18, 2020 Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Tony Hooper
Strawbs		 81 November 18, 2020 [180]
Linas Rugienius
Tipo Grupė		 42 November 30, 2020 ?, Lithuania Cancer
Eric Pacheco
Babylon A.D.		 53 December 6, 2020 [181]
Sean Malone
Cynic		 50 December 7, 2020 Largo, Florida, U.S. Suicide[182]
Jason Slater
Third Eye Blind		 49 December 9, 2020 Maui, Hawaii, U.S. Liver failure[183]
Charley Pride 86 December 12, 2020 Dallas, Texas, U.S. COVID-19[184]
Sam Jayne
Love as Laughter, Lync		 46 December 15, 2020 [185]
Clay Anthony
Junkyard		 61 December 19, 2020 Maui, Hawaii, U.S. Car accident[186]
Dieter Horns
Lucifer's Friend		 74 December 19, 2020 Germany Undisclosed cause[187]
Pelle Alsing
Roxette		 60 December 20, 2020 Sweden Undisclosed cause[188]
Chad Stuart
Chad & Jeremy		 79 December 20, 2020 Hailey, Idaho, U.S. Pneumonia[189]
Leslie West
Mountain		 75 December 23, 2020 Palm Coast, Florida, U.S. Heart attack[190]
Geoff Stephens
New Vaudeville Band		 86 December 24, 2020

Pneumonia[191]

Armando Manzanero 85 December 28, 2020 Mexico City, Distrito Federal. Mexico COVID-19
Phylis McGuire
The McGuire Sisters		 89 December 29, 2020 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Natural causes[192]
Alto Reed
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band		 72 December 30, 2020 Colon cancer[193]
Eugene Wright
Jazz Bassist for Dave Brubeck Quartet		 97 December 30, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Undisclosed[194]
Alexi Laiho
Children of Bodom		 41 December 31, 2020 Helsinki, Finland Complications of alcohol abuse[195]

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