Celebrity Deaths: 2014 Edition

Alvin Stardust, glam rock singer, dies aged 72 (BBC)

Always remember that practically ever article back in the lazy music press 90s about Adam F alluded to 'so Alvin Stardust is your Dad'. I think the expectation was he'd be making Disco DnB...

Who isn't making disco dNb /goes to make disco dNb

RIP Jack Bruce.

Warren Clarke (Dim in A Clockwork Orange/one half of Dalziel and Pascoe), died aged 67 after a short illness. (Guardian)

Singer Joe Cocker dies aged 70

"Singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends, has died aged 70. The singer song-writer from Sheffield had a career lasting more than 40 years with hits including You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong. His agent Barrie Marshall confirmed that he had died of an undisclosed illness."

(BBC)

Damn.