Which music legend going is going to hit you the hardest?

There are a lot. Jeff Beck was so sudden and unexpected, it still stings. Reading through everyone’s lists just makes me sad. I don’t want to think about it. I’ve got nothing more to add.
 
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McCartney and Dylan. All the remaining Stones. Weirdly I’ll miss a world without Robert Plant in it. Springsteen.

Bowie’s passing was sad but he had been sick and had become reclusive. The fact that he went out with a new weird, challenging legit record was a surprise. Prince was a shock as he seemed a force of nature who was eternal.

I’m not looking forward to a world without any Beatles in it. And living at the same time as Dylan has been a treat. He still has the capacity to surprise. I like knowing the Stones are around. Same goes for Plant who has aged with surprising grace.

I’ve spent a lot of my mental and artistic and critical energy brushing the teeth of dead monsters, so I’m not relishing a world where what passes for beloved cultural treasures and living legends is Macklemore and fucking Fred Durst.

I miss the comfort of the late 20th century. I feel like one of those late period Victorians forced to live bewildered and unhappy in the horror show of the first half of the 20th century.
 
There's a lot of people, I guess. It's not like I'm actually keeping up with what they do or don't, but they've always been there, and it's going to be weird when they're not around anymore. It was like that with Bowie, out of the blue, so to speak.

But yeah, Macca, Dylan, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, Page & Plant, Ray & Dave Davies, Bryan Ferry, ABBA, Brian May etc., etc.. It's like imagining a world without the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben or the Statue of Liberty.
 
Honestly, I don't know if any will hit me much more than reminding me of my own mortality. I've already lost the majority of my family and a bunch of friends over the years. I've gone through a lot of introspection & compartmentalization around death, in general. There's plenty of artists whose passing will make the world just a bit worse off to be certain though.
 
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Prince, I can't believe I forgot him...

Massive shock because I had always heard and thought he was as clean as they came. I believe he humble bragged on occasion that he avoided alcohol and drugs because they clouded his mind, which he wasn't having....

The thing with these guys and Cornell, was that I think they still had some good or even great music left in them. Cornell was still writing and regularly releasing new music. And despite being older and in that phase of a career where folks want to go to a greatest hits show, Tom and Prince were still writing and playing new tunes for fans.
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Prince was suffering with the pain of a hip replacement... he had one of those celebrity doctors that would give him meds that really needed to be supervised by a doctor or nurse, not just self applied by a suffering patient. So it wasn't the typical "rock star party drug overdose" as much as an accidental overdose by someone who valued his privacy over a more supervised care approach.

Cornell hit me super hard as well since he has been my favorite modern day rock vocalist for the past few decades. It was painfully evident some of the deep rooted depression in his lyrical content, and it hit even closer to home with his death happening in Detroit after performing at the Fox theatre that I've been at many times before. :(

I don't know if you saw it above, I spoke about how personal Cornell's cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares to You" is to me.
 
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Cornell hit me super hard as well since he has been my favorite modern day rock vocalist for the past few decades. It was painfully evident some of the deep rooted depression in his lyrical content, and it hit even closer to home with his death happening in Detroit after performing at the Fox theatre that I've been at many times before. :(
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He was already dead to me when he made that "No that bitch ain't a part of me" song with Timbaland. Of course, I wasn't a fan of Audioslave or his solo material in general.

 
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