Die young to become a legend ?

[aldershot village]

Eddie Cochran ,living though i can't stand him Sir Cliff Richard .

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

jeff buckley - the biggest loss to music ever, because there was so much to come. Amazing singer, guitarist and composer. I'm looking forward to the movie, when eventually it gets made

Buckley isn't even in the same hemisphere as Jimi Hendrix loss to music.

 

[Justice]

who cares never understand people worship, unless of course they put two past Palace

 

[Southcoast Corsair]

Mayby Morrissey should have popped off after the Smiths finished.

 

[Twizzle]

McCartney is the main genius of The Beatles.

Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Steve Winwood are some longtime legends, death should not be a requirement for that recognition.
Jeff Buckley or Curt Cobain? Hmm, I have to stretch my imagination for those names. Why no Elliott Smith then?

Sid Vaccuous? Not. at. all.

 

[Twizzle]

Eddie Cochran ,living though i can't stand him Sir Cliff Richard .

Billy Fury was our dead rock n roller I suppose.
He deserves some attention for his body of work - issued some decent 60's rock too, not only greaser stuff.

 

[wallyback]

Buckley isn't even in the same hemisphere as Jimi Hendrix loss to music.

Beg to differ on that one!

 

[Norman Potting]

Otis Redding?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Die young or you end up in Meet the Fockers like Robert DeNiro

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I always wonder how Freddie Mercury would have been perceived if he had been alive and well now.

Obviously he was BRILLIANT, but would it be the same if he'd still be touring now with Queen prancing around in his vests?

 

[Willy Dangle]

Jedward

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

McCartney is the main genius of The Beatles.

Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Steve Winwood are some longtime legends, death should not be a requirement for that recognition.
Jeff Buckley or Curt Cobain? Hmm, I have to stretch my imagination for those names. Why no Elliott Smith then?

Sid Vaccuous? Not. at. all.

I would beg to differ on the Paul McCartney front. He and Lennon wrote some great stuff together, but personally I much prefer the Lennon influence. he would never have come up with such inane twaddle as the Frog's Chorus or Mull of Kintyre.

And Miles Davis died a number of years ago. He wasn't particularly old, but neither was he in the first flush of youth.

-Edit - he died in 1991 at the age of 65, having recorded shedloads of studio albums, let alone all the other stuff.

 

[Nibble]

Lots of Hollywood icons didn't die in youth but sadly beacame slightly odd old men, Tony Curtis, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando for example. Some legends died broke and unliked such as Charlie Chaplin. And some remaine/d dignified such as Paul Newman, Redford, Eastwood. Personally I couldn't abide James Dean, but I suppose in his day he represented the never before seen teenage rebel. Monroe would have never lasted, she had great screen presence but was, forgive me for speaking ill of the dead, an averagely talented, junkie trollop.

 

[The Modfather]

Ray Davies is a living legend IMHO.

 

[The Birdman]

Cliff Richard oh he still alive ?

 

[robynsdad]

Mayby Morrissey should have popped off after the Smiths finished.

Or better yet - before they started?

 

[T soprano]

Ray Davies is a living legend IMHO.

I'm surprised you didn't say Paul Weller

 

[simmo]

Others
Sid vicious
Phil Lynnot
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Marley
Kurt Cobain

Another one to be added to this list is Amy Winehouse....

As for living legends, I reckon you could add Mick Jagger and the other Rolling Stones. (Nearly??) 50 years of touring and still selling out!

 

[The Modfather]

I'm surprised you didn't say Paul Weller

That goes without saying

 

[T soprano]

Die young or you end up in Meet the Fockers like Robert DeNiro

Yeah I'm not to sure about De Niro doing comedy other clangers include "Analyse this "& "Analyse That "