Music deaths in 2018 (updated)

It's been a long time since I celebrated those musicians and entertainers who have died recently. To make amends, here is a round up of some of those who have passed on in 2018. As ever, it's a long list, but let's celebrate them. They will be sadly missed and The Vinyl Word raises a glass to them all.
Barbara Alston - founder member and first lead singer of The Crystals.
Eddy Amoo -Liverpudlian who sang with The Chants and later the Real Thing.
Charles Aznavour - French/Armenian singer/songwriter who enjoyed a 70 year career
Roy Bailey - English folk singer who formed Band of Hope
Marty Balin -singer and founder of Jefferson Airplane
Babs Beverley - member of the Beverley Sisters
Dickie Bishop - pioneering skiffle banjo player with Chris Barber and own group
Hamiet Bluiett - American jazz saxophonist,

Henry Butler - blind New Orleans jazz and R & B pianist who appeared at Porretta (pictured)
Bill Caddick - English folk singer who was member of Magic Lantern
Tony Camillo - soul record producer at Motown and Invictus
Eddie C Campbell - bluesman who played with Howlin' Wolf and in Chicago Blues All Stars
Ace Cannon - sax player with Bill Blacks Combo and in his own right ('Tuff')
Bernadette Carroll - member of The Angels ('My Boyfriend's Back')
Leon 'Ndugo' Chancler - jazz and funk drummer
'Fast' Eddie Clarke - guitarist with Motorhead
Roy Clark - country singer and musician who hosted a US TV show for 28 years
Eddy 'The Chief' Clearwater - extrovert Chicago R and B guitarist and singer
Buzz Clifford - singer who found fame with 'Baby Sittin' Boogie'
Lorrie Collins - half of rockabilly duo the Collins Kids.
Stuart Colman - influential UK musician, record producer and radio DJ
Vic Damone - fifties crooner and ballad singer who also appeared in movies
Nathan Davis - jazz saxophonist
Johnny Dawson - co-founder of Motown group The Elgins.
Ken Dodd - comedian from Liverpool who had 18 UK hits including 1965's biggest
Ronald Dunbar - songwriter and record producer with Holland-Dozier-Holland

Dennis Edwards - singer with the Contours and then lead with the Temptations
Nokie Edwards - guitarist who enjoyed success with the Ventures & performed at the Stomp (pictured)
Geoff Emerick - sound engineer with The Beatles, Zombies and others
Terry Evans - singer who worked with Ry Cooder and formed soul duo with Bobby King
Fenella Fielding - British femme fatale actress ('Carry On Screaming')
D J Fontana - Sun drummer who backed Elvis for many years
Clarence Fountain - leader of the Blind Boys of Alabama
Don Gardner - R and B singer and drummer best known for duets with Dee Dee Ford,
Aretha Franklin - the Queen of Soul, originally from Memphis but based in Detroit
Peggy Sue Gerron - Jerry Allison's girlfriend who was inspiration for Buddy Holly's 'Peggy Sue'
Jeanie Green - Alabama soul singer with backed Elvis and also recorded solo ('Sure As Sin')
Rick Hall - record producer, musician and founder of Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals
Roy Hargrove - Grammy Award winning American jazz trumpeter
Mike Harrison - lead singer with Spooky Tooth
Edwin Hawkins - gospel musician who had a hit with 'Oh Happy Day'
Jon Hiseman - drummer who formed Colosseum and Tempest and played with John Mayall
His Master's Voice - venerable record store chain (died for a second time)
Chas Hodges - one half of Chas and Dave and a star of Tales From The Woods shows.
Gerard Homan - promoter of blues shows in eastern England
Tab Hunter - fifties pop singer and Hollywood actor in over 40 films
Joe Jackson- father of the Jacksons
Kern Kennedy - drummer with Sonny Burgess's Pacers
Ed King - guitarist with Strawberry Alarm Clock and later Lynryd Skynryd
Danny Kirwan - guitarist and singer with Fleetwood Mac and as solo artist
Nick Knox - drummer with the Cramps
Honey Lantree - drummer with The Honeycombs ('Have I The Right')
Denise Lasalle - Mississippi born singer who became a major blues and soul star (pictured at Porretta)
Lazy Lester - Louisiana blues singer, harmonica player and guitarist ('I'm A Lover Not A Fighter')
Stan Lewis - Shreveport record label owner (Jewel, Paula and Ronn)
Didier Lockwood - French jazz violinist who played in Magma
Wilbert Longmire - jazz guitarist
Alan Longmuir - co-founder and bass player with the Bay City Rollers
Hugh Masekela - South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer
Larry McArthur - member of soul group the Controllers
Jay McCaddin - Mobile, Al, based Woodie and former Navy man
Country Pete McGill - west coast bluesman
Trevor McNaughton - co-founder of rocksteady group the Melodians
Big Jay McNeely - R and B sax 'honker' from LA whose career began in the 1940s
Mighty Shadow - Trinidadian calypsonian
Matt 'Guitar' Murphy - blues guitarist who toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival

Charles Neville - R and B and jazz saxophonist with the Neville Brothers (pictured)
Calvin Newborn - Jazz & R and B guitarist who gave guitar lessons to Howlin' Wolf and was friend of Elvis
Dolores O'Riordan - Irish vocalist with the Cranberries
Jacqueline Pearce - Servelan in 'Blake's Sefen@
Eugene Pitt - founder and lead singer of the Jive Five ('My True Story')
Royce Porter - Texas rockabilly singer and guitarist
Herb Remington - steel guitarist with Bob Wills' Texas Playboys
Burt Reynolds - actor and director ('Deliverance', 'Boogie Nights')
Jim Rodford - bass guitarist who co-founded Argent and played with the Kinks
Otis Rush - Chicago based blues guitarist and singer
Ray Sawyer- (a final one for 2018) eyepatch wearing singer with Dr Hook
Teddy Scott - member of the G-Clefs ('I Understand')
Preston Shannon - blues guitarist and singer who played regularly on Beale Street
Pete Shelley - lead singer of the Buzzcocks
G G Shinn - swamp pop singer and former member of the Fabulous Boogie Kings
Lowrell Simon - soul singer with the Vondells and the Lost Generation
Yvonne Staples - manager of and, later, singer with, the Staple Singers
John 'Jabo' Starks - funk and blues drummer with James Brown band
Maggie Stredder - member of the Vernons Girls
Ray Thomas - founder member, flautist and singer with the Moody Blues and solo artist
Joe Valentine - Austin based soul singer, record label owner and club owner
'Wah Wah' Watson (Melvin Ragin) - guitarist with the Funk Brothers.
Norris Weir - member of rocksteady group the Jamaicans
Chuck Weldon - member of The Paradons ('Diamonds and Pearls')
Randy Weston - jazz pianist and composer
Cliff White - UK soul music journalist and expert on James Brown
Tony Joe White - Louisiana swamp blues singer/songwriter and guitarist
June Whitfield - British comedienne for many decades ('Ab Fab', 'The Glums')
Herbert Wiley - leader of Mississippi soul band Wiley and the Checkmates
Jody Williams - Chicago based blues guitarist
Betty Willis - soul singer who recorded for Gold Star in LA
Eddie Willis - guitarist with Motown's Funk Brothers
Martin Willis - sax player with Conway Twitty and at Sun Studios
Elder Roma Wilson - gospel/blues harmonica player
Nancy Wilson - jazz and occasionally soul,singer
Danny Woods - co-founder of Chairmen Of The Board
Peter Young (PY) - DJ whose soul show on Jazz FM was essential listening
Roy Young - dynamic UK rock and roll pianist and former TFTW star (pictured)
Thanks to Jon T-Bone Taylor, Marc Engel and Tony Burke for additions to the list.