R.I.P. Mark E Smith (The Fall)
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You know that we love The Fall here, so we’re devastated to hear that Mark E Smith has died at the age of 60, according to bbc.co.uk.
It’s funny to think that Smith was only 60, because I thought he was 60 when I got into The Fall, hearing Smith’s unique vocal styling for the first time in the early 90s. No one can quite sing like Mark E. Smith.
[24 Jan 2018] Mark E. Smith (English singer and songwriter for The Fall), 60
[23 Jan 2018] Hugh Masekela (South African jazz trumpeter and composer), 78, prostate cancer
[23 Jan 2018] Lari White (American country singer and actress), 52, peritoneal cancer
[22 Jan 2018] Shorty Castro (Puerto Rican comedian, songwriter and entertainer), 89, cancer
[22 Jan 2018] Billy Hancock (American musician), 71
[22 Jan 2018] Preston Shannon (American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist), 70
[21 Jan 2018] Yao Ming (Chinese composer), 69
[20 Jan 2018] Mario Guccio (Belgian singer for Machiavel), 64
[20 Jan 2018] Jim Rodford (English musician for Argent, The Kinks, The Zombies), 76
[20 Jan 2018] Terry Evans (American blues and soul musician), 80
[19 Jan 2018] Fredo Santana (American rapper), 27, kidney failure
[18 Jan 2018] Augusto Polo Campos (Peruvian composer), 85
[17 Jan 2018] Christian Burchard (German musician), 71
[17 Jan 2018] Oldřich Veselý (Czech musician), 69
[17 Jan 2018] Denis Cuspert (German rapper and jihadist), 41, airstrike
[17 Jan 2018] Nathan Jatcko (American keyboardist for Pavlov’s Dog), 31, suicide
[16 Jan 2018] Madalena Iglésias (Portuguese actress and singer), 78
[16 Jan 2018] Shammi Akhtar (Bangladeshi playback singer), 60, breast cancer
[15 Jan 2018] Edwin Hawkins (American gospel musician, multiple Grammy winner), 74, pancreatic cancer
[15 Jan 2018] Dolores O’Riordan (Irish musician for The Cranberries), 46
[15 Jan 2018] Anshel Brusilow (American violinist and conductor), 89
[15 Jan 2018] Khadija Abdullahi Daleys (Somali singer), 81
[14 Jan 2018] Paul Lustig Dunkel (American flautist and conductor), 74
[13 Jan 2018] Otoniel Gonzaga (Filipino opera singer), 75
[13 Jan 2018] Tzimis Panousis (Greek musician, comedian and actor), 63, heart attack
[11 Jan 2018] Pierre Pincemaille (French organist), 61
[10 Jan 2018] “Fast” Eddie Clarke ( British guitarist for Motörhead and Fastway), 67, pneumonia
[09 Jan 2018] Alexander Vedernikov (Russian singer and teacher, Bolshoi Theatre soloist, People’s Artist of the USSR for 1976), 90
[08 Jan 2018] Denise LaSalle (American blues singer), 78
[08 Jan 2018] Vojtěch Lindaur (Czech radio host for Radio Beat and record producer), 60
[08 Jan 2018] Moriss Taylor (American country and western music entertainer for The Moriss Taylor Show), 93
[07 Jan 2018] France Gall (French singer, Eurovision 1965 winner), 70, cancer
[06 Jan 2018] Walther Dürr (German musicologist), 85
[06 Jan 2018] Chris Tsangarides (British music producer for Black Sabbath, Judas Priest), 61, pneumonia and heart failure
[05 Jan 2018] Jerry Van Dyke (American actor and singer), 86
[05 Jan 2018] Yon Koeswoyo (Indonesian singer), 77
[05 Jan 2018] Mikio “Ko-Gami” Fujioka (Japanese guitarist for Babymetal), 36, complications from a fall
[04 Jan 2018] Ray Thomas (English singer-songwriter for The Moody Blues), 76, prostate cancer
[04 Jan 2018] John Braun (American radio DJ for WBZI), 68
[04 Jan 2018] Rayya Elias (Syrian-born American author and musician), 57, pancreatic cancer
[03 Jan 2018] Lara Kruger (South African disc jockey for Motsweding FM), 30
[03 Jan 2018] Medeniyet Shahberdiyeva (Soviet opera singer and music educator), 87
[03 Jan 2018] Colin Brumby (Australian composer and conductor), 84
[02 Jan 2018] Rick Hall (American record producer, songwriter and recording studio owner of FAME Studios, “Father of Muscle Shoals Music”), 85
[02 Jan 2018] Radha Viswanathan (Indian vocalist), 83, pneumonia
[02 Jan 2018] Tony Calder ( English music promoter and executive for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones), 74
[01 Jan 2018] Vidwan Mahadevappa (Indian violinist, professor at the Fine Arts College of University of Mysore), 87
[01 Jan 2018] Teddy Edelmann (Danish singer), 76
[01 Jan 2018] Robert Mann (American violinist and composer, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet), 97
[01 Jan 2018] Konrad Ragossnig (Austrian classical guitarist), 85
[01 Jan 2018] Peter Evans (British musicologist), 88
[01 Jan 2018] Jon Paul Steuer (American actor and musician), 33
[01 Jan 2018] Betty Willis (American soul singer), 76, strangled
It’s funny to think that Smith was only 60, because I thought he was 60 when I got into The Fall, hearing Smith’s unique vocal styling for the first time in the early 90s. No one can quite sing like Mark E. Smith.
To be honest, although I love some of the Fall’s songs and albums, I could never keep up with their prolific output as a band. From 1979 to 2017, the band released 32 studio albums!
The last time we talked about The Fall was when they released Live: Uurop VIII-XII Places in Sun & Winter, Son in 2014, and we noted that “The Fall: always the same, always different”. We also said that at Mark E Smith’s age, that he won’t tour America.
Below are more deaths for the month of January – for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2018.
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