Rock'n'Roll may have been a well-defined genre, but starting with Buddy Holly the term "rock music" became fuzzier and fuzzier. The Beach Boys played surf music, and the Beatles' music was Mersey-beat, a variant of pop music. Dylan was a folk singer. Somehow they all got lumped into "rock music". The truth is that there was no definition of rock music to start with. In the following decades there was less and less of an agreement on what constituted rock music, as its purveyors swung wildly from jazz to world-music. By the end of the century, rock music included artists who played mainly electronic and digital instruments.
Life's guarantees are birth, paying taxes and not so pleasant thing referred to as death. This site is a tribute to some fallen legends of over 50 years of Rock n Roll! Each death is represent to which decade when death occurred. A tribute page with synopsis for each Rock n Roll stars can be found by clicking on the decade. What's makes a legend? To each's it own I say. My opinion each legend's achievement and timely end of life. I can not list all the obituaries but I will try to highlight each decade's legend lost.
So, relax....sit back and browse the decades.