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<\/a><\/p>\nGarth Hudson, Roberta Flack, Ozzy Osbourne, Marianne Faithfull, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson are among the music greats who died in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
We lost many luminaries within the wide sphere of the music community during 2025. Below are many of the artists and music industry influencers who have passed during the year. They are arranged alphabetically, the person\u2019s name followed by the death date and a brief description of who they were.<\/p>\n
If an artist\u2019s name is underlined, you can click on it to be taken to Best Classic Bands\u2019 full obituary.<\/p>\n
Below the list of musical artists, we\u2019ve also noted several other prominent figures whose lives were lost in 2025.<\/p>\n
We will miss all of these great talents. RIP.<\/p>\n
Mick Abrahams<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201412\/19\u2014Original Jethro Tull guitarist who left after the band\u2019s debut album to form Blodwyn Pig<\/p>\n Richard \u201cDick\u201d Addrisi<\/strong>\u201410\/14\u2014Half of the Addrisi Brothers songwriting and performing team, whose hits included \u201cNever My Love\u201d (recorded by the Association) and their own \u201cSlow Dancin\u2019 Don\u2019t Turn Me On\u201d<\/p>\n Susan Alcorn<\/strong>\u20141\/31\u2014Country and jazz pedal steel guitarist<\/p>\n Dave Allen<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u20144\/5\u2014Bassist and founding member of U.K. post-punk band Gang of Four<\/p>\n Bob Andrews<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u20146\/5\u2014Keyboardist and founding member of the early 1970s U.K. pub-rock band Brinsley Schwarz, and later a member of the Rumour, the backup band for Graham Parker<\/p>\n Michael \u201cTunes\u201d Antunes<\/strong>\u20148\/19\u2014Saxophonist in John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band<\/p>\n Larry Appelbaum<\/strong>\u20142\/21\u2014Jazz journalist, broadcaster and historian<\/p>\n Roy Ayers<\/strong>\u20143\/4\u2014Jazz, funk and soul vibraphonist and composer<\/p>\n Amadou Bagayoko<\/b>\u20144\/5\u2014Guitarist\/vocalist in Malian duo Amadou & Mariam<\/p>\n James Baker<\/strong>\u20145\/5\u2014Australian drummer for the Scientists, Victims, Hoodoo Gurus and more<\/p>\n Maury Baker<\/strong>\u201410\/8\u2014Drummer with Janis Joplin\u2019s Kozmik Blues Band, Tom Jones, Tim Buckley, Frank Zappa and others<\/p>\n Roy Thomas Baker<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u20144\/12\u2014Prolific and successful producer (Queen, The Cars, Journey, among numerous others)<\/p>\n Dave Ball<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201410\/22\u2014Half of the British synth-pop duo Soft Cell (\u201cTainted Love\u201d)<\/p>\n Perry Bamonte<\/strong>\u201412\/26\u2014Guitarist\/keyboardist of the Cure<\/p>\n Gene \u201cDaddy G\u201d Barge<\/strong>\u20142\/2\u2014Saxophonist best known for his work with Gary U.S. Bonds<\/p>\n Dave Bargeron<\/strong>\u20141\/18\u2014Trombonist and tuba player with Blood, Sweat and Tears<\/p>\n Al Barile<\/strong>\u20144\/6\u2014Guitarist with hardcore band SS Decontrol (SSD)<\/p>\n The Sonics in their mid-\u201960s heyday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bob Bennett<\/strong>\u20142\/4?\u2014Drummer with \u201960s garage band the Sonics<\/p>\n Dave Benton<\/strong>\u20149\/27\u2014Co-founder\/guitarist-vocalist of Spooner<\/p>\n Alan Bergman<\/strong>\u20147\/17\u2014Lyricist (\u201cThe WIndmills of Your Mind,\u201d \u201cNice \u2019n\u2019 Easy,\u201d \u201cThe Way We Were,\u201d \u201cYou Don\u2019t Bring me Flowers\u201d)<\/p>\n Mike Berry<\/strong>\u20144\/11\u2014English singer and actor, known for the top 10 (U.K.) hits \u201cDon\u2019t You Think It\u2019s Time\u201d (1963) and \u201cThe Sunshine of Your Smile\u201d<\/p>\n Andy Bey<\/strong>\u20144\/26\u2014Jazz vocalist<\/p>\n Les Binks<\/strong>\u20143\/15\u2014Judas Priest drummer for two years in the late \u201970s<\/p>\n David Briggs<\/strong>\u20144\/22\u2014Keyboardist who played with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson and Alice Cooper, among many others<\/p>\n Shaun Brighton<\/strong>\u20141\/31\u2014Vocalist\/guitarist for new wave band Nervus Rex<\/p>\n Rodney Brown<\/strong>\u20145\/17\u2014Drummer with R&B group Dyke and the Blazers<\/p>\n Don Bryant<\/strong>\u201412\/26\u2014R&B singer-songwriter, primarily for Hi Records (\u201cI Can\u2019t Stand the Rain\u201d for Ann Peebles)<\/p>\n Rick Buckler<\/strong>\u20142\/17\u2014Drummer with English punk\/power pop trio The Jam<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Dave Burgess<\/strong>\u201410\/19\u2014Leader of the Champs, whose mostly instrumental \u201cTequila\u201d went to #1 in 1958 and became a bar-band classic (and a highlight of Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure)<\/p>\n Clem Burke<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u20144\/7\u2014Drummer for Blondie<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n