November
• George "Funky" Brown – drummer and co-founder of New Jersey's Kool & the Gang; cancer; 74
• Scott Kempner – Bronx-born guitarist and co-founder of the Dictators and the Del-Lords; dementia; 69
• Jean Knight – New Orleans-born R&B singer known best for "Mr. Big Stuff" (No. 2, 1971); 80
• Mike Marrt – Long Beach, CA-based former guitarist with punk-rock bands Tex & the Horseheads and Thelonious Monster; 67
• Shane MacGowan – founder, singer and songwriter of Irish punk-rock band The Pogues; lived a legendary life of excess; viral encephalitis; 65
• Jamie Ross – frontman of New York band Like It
• Abe Stoklasa – Missouri-born and Nashville-based country music singer/songwriter; wrote songs for Lady A, Tim McGraw and others; 36
• Greg "Fingers" Taylor – Kansas-born former harmonica player with Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band; Alzheimer's; 71
• Conny Van Dyke – white Virginia-born singer signed by Motown in 1960; acted in Hell's Angels '69 and other movies and TV shows; dementia; 78
• Geordie Walker – guitarist with post-punk Brit group Killing Joke; stroke; 64
October
• Carla Bley (Lovella Borg) - Oakland-born jazz pianist and composer; brain cancer; 87
• Angelo Bruschini - guitarist with British trip-hop group Massice Attack; lung cancer; 62
• Michael "Ibo" Cooper - founding member as keyboardist of reggae group Third World, also performed with Inner Circle; cancer; 71
• DJ Mark (Mark James) - known as the 45 King, the Bronx-bprn DJ als produced albums and songs by Eminem, Jay-Z, Ghiostface Killah and many more; 62
• Rudolph "Rudy" Isley - one of four Ohio-born musicians who founded the Isley Brothers in the '50s; heart attack; 84
• Dwight Twilley - Tulsa-born power pop singer-songwriter and band leader, had hit with "I'm on Fire" in 1975; stroke; 72
