Deaths
- 8 January - Sir Michael Tippett, composer, 95
- 24 February - Geoffrey Bush, organist and composer, 77
- 13 March – Judge Dread, ska and reggae performer, 52, (heart attack on stage)
- 5 April - Cozy Powell, rock drummer, 50 (car crash)
- 17 April – Linda McCartney, US-born wife of Paul McCartney, businesswoman and member of Wings, 56 (breast cancer)
- 19 May - Edwin Astley, composer, 76
- 3 July - George Lloyd, composer, 85
- 25 October - Dick Higgins, composer, poet, printer and artist, 60 (heart attack)
- 7 December - John Addison, film composer, 78
- 21 December – Karl Denver, Scottish singer, 67
Read more about this topic: 1998 In British Music
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
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—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
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