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This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2018.

2018 deaths in popular music[edit]

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Preceded by
2017 		List of deaths in popular music
2018 		Succeeded by
2019
Name Age Date Location Cause of death
Betty Willis 76 January 1, 2018 Santa Ana, California, U.S. Strangled[1]
Rick Hall
Record producer		 85 January 2, 2018 Muscle Shoals, Alabama, U.S. Prostate cancer[2]
Ray Thomas
Moody Blues		 76 January 4, 2018 Surrey, England Prostate cancer [3]
Chris Tsangarides
Record producer from Judas Priest, Depeche Mode		 61 January 6, 2018 Heart failure following pneumonia [4]
Jimmy Robinson
Recording engineer, record producer		 67 January 6, 2018 New York City, New York, U.S. [5]
France Gall 70 January 7, 2018 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Cancer
Denise LaSalle 78 January 8, 2018 Jackson, Tennessee, U.S. Complications from fall[6]
Eddie Clarke
Motörhead, Fastway		 67 January 10, 2018 Pneumonia [7]
Ernest H. Sanders
German-born American musicologist		 99 January 13, 2018 New York, U.S. [8]
Barbara Cope
Groupie		 67 January 14, 2018 Dallas, Texas, U.S. House fire[9]
Marlene VerPlanck 84 January 14, 2018 Manhattan, New York, U.S. Pancreatic cancer[10]
Edwin Hawkins 74 January 15, 2018 Pleasanton, California, U.S. [11]
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries		 46 January 15, 2018 London, England Drowning caused by alcohol intoxication[12]
Dave Holland
Trapeze, Judas Priest		 69 January 16, 2018 Lugo, Spain Lung cancer [13]
Terry Evans 80 January 20, 2018 U.S. [14]
Jim Rodford
Argent, The Kinks, The Zombies		 76 January 20, 2018 St Albans, England Complications from fall[15]
Hugh Masekela 78 January 23, 2018 Johannesburg, South Africa Prostate cancer[16]
Lari White 52 January 23, 2018 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Peritoneal cancer[17]
Mark E. Smith
The Fall
 60 January 24, 2018 Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England Lung and kidney cancer [18]
Buzz Clifford 76 January 26, 2018 Complications of influenza[19]
Leah LaBelle 31 January 31, 2018 Studio City, California Traffic collision
Dennis Edwards
The Temptations		 74 February 1, 2018 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Complications from meningitis[20]
Leon "Ndugu" Chancler
Record producer and university professor		 65 February 3, 2018 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Prostate cancer[21]
Zeno Roth
Uli Jon Roth		 61 February 5, 2018 [22]
John Perry Barlow
Lyricist for The Grateful Dead, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation		 70 February 6, 2018 San Francisco, California, U.S. Complications from heart attack[23]
Mickey Jones
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition		 76 February 7, 2018 Simi Valley, California, U.S. Diabetes [24]
Pat Torpey
Mr. Big		 64 February 7, 2018 Complications of Parkinson's disease[25]
Lovebug Starski
Record producer for DJ Hollywood		 57 February 8, 2018 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Heart attack[26]
Craig MacGregor
Foghat		 68 February 9, 2018 Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, U.S. Lung cancer[27]
Wesla Whitfield 70 February 9, 2018 St. Helena, California [28]
Troy Blakely
Record producer for Scorpions, Poison, Red Hot Chili Peppers		 68 February 10, 2018 U.S. Cancer[29]
Vic Damone 89 February 11, 2018 Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. Natural causes[30]
Daryle Singletary 46 February 12, 2018 Lebanon, Tennessee, U.S. Blood Clot[31]
Scott Boyer
Cowboy		 70 February 13, 2018 Muscle Shoals, Alabama, U.S. Peripheral artery disease[32]
Little Sammy Davis 89 February 13, 2018 Middletown, New York, U.S. [33]
Wim Claes
Record producer		 56 February 24, 2018 [34]
Harvey Schmidt 88 February 28, 2018 Tomball, Texas, U.S. Congestive heart failure[35]
Bill Burkette
The Vogues		 75 March 1, 2018 Unknown
Van McLain
Shooting Star		 62 March 2, 2018 West Nile virus
Virgilijus Noreika
3 Tigrai		 82 March 3, 2018 Vilnius, Lithuania Cancer
Patrick Doyle
Veronica Falls		 32 March 3, 2018 ?, U.S. Suicide[36]
Jeff St John 71 March 6, 2018 Perth, Western Australia Infection following surgery[37]
Jerzy Milian 82 March 7, 2018 Katowice, Poland Natural causes[38]
Milko Kelemen 93 March 8, 2018 Stuttgart, Germany Natural causes
Ken Dodd 90 March 11, 2018 Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England Chest infection[39]
Craig Mack 47 March 12, 2018 Walterboro, South Carolina, U.S. Heart failure[40]
Nokie Edwards
The Ventures		 82 March 12, 2018 Yuma, Arizona, U.S. Complications following hip surgery
Claudia Fontaine
Afrodiziak		 57 March 13, 2018 [41]
Charlie Quintana
The Plugz, Social Distortion, Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds 		56 March 13, 2018 Cancún, Mexico Heart attack[42]
Jimmy Wisner 86 March 13, 2018 [43]
Buell Neidlinger
Cecil Taylor, Frank Zappa, Duane Eddy		 82 March 16, 2018 Unknown
Killjoy
Necrophagia		 48 March 18, 2018 Undisclosed causes[44]
Peter "Mars" Cowling
Pat Travers Band, Flying Hat Band		 72 March 20, 2018 U.S. [45]
Lys Assia
winner of the first Eurovision Song Contest		 94 March 24, 2018 Zollikerberg, Zürich, Switzerland [46]
Mike Harrison
Spooky Tooth		 75 March 25, 2018 Carlisle, England [47]
Seo Min-woo
100%		 33 March 25, 2018 Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea Cardiac arrest[48]
Jerry Williams 75 March 25, 2018 Täby, Sweden Cancer[49]
Caleb Scofield
Cave In, Old Man Gloom, Zozobra		 39 March 28, 2018 Bedford, New Hampshire, U.S. Traffic collision [50]
Alias
Record producer from Anticon Records		 41 March 30, 2018 U.S. Heart attack[51]
Ron Dunbar
Record producer		 77 April 3, 2018 U.S. [52]
Cecil Taylor 89 April 5, 2018 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. [53]
Avicii 28 April 20, 2018 Muscat, Oman Suicide[54]
Kato Khandwala
Record producer from Blondie, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, The Pretty Reckless		 47 April 25, 2018 North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Traffic collision[55]
Charles Neville
The Neville Brothers		 79 April 26, 2018 Huntington, Massachusetts, U.S. [56]
John "Jabo" Starks
The J.B.'s		 79 May 1, 2018 Mobile, Alabama, U.S. [57]
Scott Hutchison
Frightened Rabbit		 36 May 9, 2018 South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland Suicide by drowning[58]
Phil Emmanuel 65 May 24, 2018 Parkes, New South Wales, Australia [59]
Eddy Clearwater 83 June 1, 2018 Skokie, Illinois, U.S. [60]
Ralph Santolla
Obituary, Deicide, Iced Earth		 48 June 6, 2018 Tampa, Florida, U.S. Heart attack[61]
Danny Kirwan
Fleetwood Mac, Tramp		 68 June 8, 2018 London, England [62]
Jon Hiseman
Colosseum, Colosseum II, Tempest, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Graham Bond Organisation		 73 June 12, 2018 Sutton, London, England Brain cancer[63]
D. J. Fontana 87 June 13, 2018 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. [64]
XXXTentacion 20 June 18, 2018 Deerfield Beach, Florida Shot[65]
see Murder of XXXTentacion
Vinnie Paul Abbott
Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah		 54 June 22, 2018 Las Vegas, Nevada Heart attack[66]
Alan Longmuir
Bay City Rollers		 70 July 2, 2018 Edinburgh, Scotland [67]
Jim Malloy
Record producer		 87 July 5, 2018 [68]
Henry Butler 69 July 2, 2018 New York City, New York, U.S. Cancer[69]
Stan Lewis
Record producer from Jewel Records		 91 July 15, 2018 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. [70]
Olga Jackowska
Maanam		 67 July 28, 2018 Bliżów, Poland Ovarian cancer[71]
Randy Rampage
Annihilator		 58 August 14, 2018 Vancouver, Canada Heart attack[72]
Jill Janus
Huntress		 42 August 14, 2018 Portland, Oregon, U.S. Suicide
Fabio Melanitto
Uff		 33 August 15, 2018 Narvarte Poniente, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico Gunshot
Aretha Franklin 76 August 16, 2018 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Pancreatic cancer[73]
Danny Pearson 65 August 17, 2018 Stonewall, Mississippi, U.S. Liver cancer[74]
Ed King
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Strawberry Alarm Clock		 68 August 22, 2018 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Lung cancer[75]
Lazy Lester 85 August 22, 2018 Paradise, California, U.S. Stomach cancer[76]
Kyle Pavone
We Came as Romans		 28 August 25, 2018 Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S. Drug overdose[77]
Conway Savage
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds		 58 September 2, 2018 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Brain tumour[78]
Don Gardner 87 September 4, 2018 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. [79][80]
Mac Miller 26 September 7, 2018 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Drug overdose[81][82][83]
Maartin Allcock
Fairport Convention		 61 September 16, 2018 Liver cancer[84]
Big Jay McNeely 91 September 16, 2018 Moreno Valley, California, U.S. Prostate cancer[84]
Chas Hodges
Chas & Dave, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, The Outlaws, Heads Hands & Feet		 74 September 22, 2018 England Organ failure[85]
Marty Balin
Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship		 76 September 27, 2018 Tampa, Florida, U.S. [86]
Otis Rush 84 September 29, 2018 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Stroke[87]
Kim Larsen
Gasolin'		 72 September 30, 2018 Odense, Denmark Prostate cancer[88]
Charles Aznavour 94 October 1, 2018 Alpilles, France Cardiac arrest[89]
Geoff Emerick
Record engineered from Abbey Road Studios, The Beatles		 72 October 2, 2018 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Heart attack[90]
John Wicks
The Records		 65 October 7, 2018 Burbank, California, U.S. Pancreatic cancer[91]
Wah Wah Watson
The Funk Brothers		 67 October 24, 2018 Santa Monica, California, U.S. [92]
Tony Joe White 75 October 24, 2018 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Heart attack[93]
Todd Youth
Agnostic Front, Danzig		 47 October 27, 2018 [94]
Jimmy Farrar
Molly Hatchet		 67 October 29, 2018 LaGrange, Georgia, U.S. Heart failure[95]
Hardy Fox
The Residents		 73 October 30, 2018 San Anselmo, California, U.S. Glioblastoma[96] (Brain cancer[97])
Josh Fauver
Deerhunter		 39 November 2, 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. [98]
Glenn Schwartz
James Gang, Pacific Gas & Electric, All Saved Freak Band		 78 November 2, 2018 U.S. [99]
Hugh McDowell
Electric Light Orchestra		 65 November 6, 2018 Cancer[100]
Scott Harrick
The Arbors		 80-81 November 7, 2018 Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico Stroke[101]
Roy Clark 85 November 15, 2018 Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. Pneumonia[102]
Devin Lima
LFO 		41 November 21, 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Adrenal cancer[103]
Jody Williams 83 December 1, 2018 Munster, Indiana, U.S. Cancer[104]
Pete Shelley
The Buzzcocks		 63 December 6, 2018 Tallinn, Estonia Heart attack[105]
Nancy Wilson 81 December 13, 2018 Pioneertown, California, U.S. [106]
Joe Osborn
The Wrecking Crew		 81 December 14, 2018 Greenwood, Louisiana, U.S. [107]
Herman Sikumbang
Seventeen		 36 December 22, 2018 Tanjung Lesung, Banten, Indonesia Drowned from Sunda Strait Tsunami 2018[108]
M. Awal "Bani" Purbani
Seventeen		 36 December 22, 2018 Tanjung Lesung, Banten, Indonesia Drowned from Sunda Strait Tsunami 2018[109]
Windu Andi Harmawan
Seventeen		 36 December 24, 2018 Pandeglang Regency, Indonesia Drowned from Sunda Strait Tsunami 2018[110]
Jerry Riopelle
Record producer		 77 December 24, 2018 Cancer[111]
James Calvin Wilsey
Avengers		 61 December 24, 2018 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Multiple organ failure[112]
Dean Ford
Marmalade		 72 December 31, 2018 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Parkinson's disease[113]
Ray Sawyer
Dr. Hook		 81 December 31, 2018 Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. [114]

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