på 70-tallet døde bl.a disse:
1970     Ayler, Albert       (avant garde sax)     34    drowned ("mysterious circumstances")
 1970    Ervin, Booker      (tenor sax)          40    kidney disease
 1970    Grant, Earl        (Easy-listening       37    car crash
 1970    Hendrix, Jimi      (Purple Haze)        27    drugs- inhalation of vomit and 
 1970    Joplin, Janis       (A Woman Left Lonely) 27    heroin overdose
 1970    Pannel, Grady     (singer- The Herdsmen 21    car accident
 1970    Reynolds, Wayne   (guitar- the Electric    21    car accident - same as Grady Pannel)
 1970    Sheppard, James   (Shep & the Limelights) 33    shot?
 1970    Terrell, Tammi      ( sang duets with     24    brain tumor
1970    Wilson, Alan       (Canned Heat)       27    suicide
 1971    Allman, Duane     (Allman Bros guitar)   24    motorcycle crash
 1971    Curtis, King       (soul sax)           37    murdered
 1971    Kelly, Wynton      (jazz piano)         40    cause?
 1971    Morrison, Jim      (Doors)             27    heart attack (drugs)
 1971    Vincent, Gene     (Be-Bop-A-Lula)      36    bleeding ulcers
 1972    Dorham, Kenny     (jazz trumpet)        48
 1972    Harvey, Les       (Stone the Crows,     27    electrocution on stage
 1972    Morgan, Lee       (jazz trumpet)        33    shot by jealous girlfriend
 1972    Murcia, Billy       (New York Dolls)      22    OD
 1972    Oakley, Berry      (Allman Bros bass)    24    motorcycle crash on the same block as 
 1973    Croce, Jim        (folk-pop "Big Bad     30    plane crash
 1973    Darin, Bobby      (Splish Splash, Mack  37    heart surgery gone wrong
 1973    Hayes, Edward     (English hard bop sax)  38    heart
 1973    McKernan, Ron     ( Grateful Dead       27    cirrhosis of liver
 1973    Parsons, Gram     ("Sweetheart Of the    27    overdose
 1973    Rostill, John       (the Shadows guitar   30    electrocuted while playing guitar
 1973    Stringbean                          58    shot by burglar
 1973    White, Clarence    (Byrds)             29    hit by drunk driver
 1973    Williams, Paul     (Temptations)        34    suicide after failing health (sickle cell 
 1974    Ammons, Gene    (sax)              49    pneumonia
 1974    Bond, Graham     (British rock-blues)    36    suicide- in front of underground train
 1974    Chase, Bill        (Chase jazz-rock      39    plane crash
 1974    Drake, Nick       (English folk)        26    drug overdose
 1974    Elliot, Mama Cass  (Mamas and the      33    heart failure due to fatty myocardial 
 1974    Hancock, Aaron    (Guitarist - the Infernos 28
 1974    M'Boup, Laye      (Senegalese singer          car accident?
 1974    McIntosh, Robbie   (Average White Band)  23    heroin OD
 1974    Melvoin, Jonathan   (Smashing Pumpkins  34    heroin OD
 1974    Rich, Don         (Buckaroos)         32    motorcycle accident
 1974    Taylor, Vincent     (Sha-Na-Na)               Heroin OD
 1975    Adderley, Julian    (jazz sax)           47    stroke
 1975    Buckley, Tim      (singer-songwriter)     28    heroin overdose
 1975    Feza, Mongezi     (South African jazz    30    pneumonia
 1975    Ham, Pete        (Badfinger, composed  28    suicide
 1975    Jackson, Al       (Stax studio drummer)  39    shot by robber
 1975    Nelson, Oliver      (sax, arranger)       43    heart attack
 1976    Ballard, Florence    (Primettes, Supremes  34    cardiac arrest
 1976    Bolin, Tommy      (Deep Purple guitar)   25    OD
 1976    Byron, David       (Uriah Heep lead singer) 27    OD
 1976    Guaraldi, Vince     (Pianist/composer-    48
 1976    Gullin, Lars        (Swedish baritone     48    drug/alcohol-related
 1976    King, Freddie      (blues guitar)        42    heart failure
 1976    Kossoff, Paul      ("Free" guitar)        25    drug-induced heart attack
 1976    Relf, Keith        (Yardbirds, 
 1976    Thain, Gary       (Uriah Heep bass)     27    OD
 1977    Bolan, Marc       (T. Rex- Bang A Gong) 30    car accident
 1977    Callas, Maria      ("high priestess of     53
 1977    Criss, Sonny      (hardbop sax)        50    suicide to escape stomach cancer pain
 1977    Ellis, Don         ("Tears Of Joy"       44    heart
 1977    Kirk, Rahsaan Roland (jazz woodwinds)     41    stroke
 1977    Presley, Elvis      (Jailhouse Rock)      42    drugs,alcohol,weight?
 1977    VanZant, Ronnie    ("Free Bird", Lynyrd    28    plane crash
 1978    Abe, Kaoru        (Japanese jazz sax    30    drug overdose
 1978    Bell, Chris        (Big Star                 car crash
 1978    Denny, Sandy      (Fairport Convention)   30    injuries from a fall
 1978    Kath, Terry        (Chicago Transit      32    suicide - self-inflicted gunshot
 1978    Kral, Irene        (jazz singer)         46    cancer
 1978    Moon, Keith       (drummer, the Who)   31    drugs
1978    Street, Mel        (country singer)       45    suicide 1978    Sutherland, Stacey  (13th Floor Elevators)        shot by wife
1979    Ainiala, Ilari Ilpo    (Finnish bass w/
 1979    George, Lowell     (Little Feat)          34    heart attack (cocaine?)
 1979    Hathaway, Donny   ("Where Is the Love")   33    suicide
 1979    MacLise, Angus    (avant/world, played in  41    hypoglycemia
 1979    Mingus, Charlie     (jazz              59    ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease
 1979    McCulloch, Jimmy  (Wings guitar)        27    heart attack
 1979    Riperton, Minnie    ('Lovin' You')         31    Cancer
 1979    Rosenbaum, Enrico  (Gypsy             36    drug abuse
 1979    Vicious, Sid       (Sex Pistols)        21    heroin overdose