This is our traditional round up of a handful of the music-related people who died in 2020.

Mostly taken from the extensive list on Weheartmusic  with a couple of our choices thrown in

[21 Jan 2020] Terry Jones (Welsh comic actor and film director for Monty Python), 77, dementia[20 Mar 2020] Kenny Rogers (American singer and songwriter), 81[26 Mar 2020] Bill Martin (Scottish songwriter and music publisher), 81, wrote ‘Puppet on a String’ (Eurovision 1967) and ‘Congratulations’[30 Mar 2020] Bill Withers (American singer-songwriter), 81, heart disease[01 Apr 2020] Adam Schlesinger (American musician for Fountains of Wayne), 52, Coronavirus[04 Apr 2020] Alex Harvey (American singer and songwriter), 73[12 Apr 2020] Tim Brooke-Taylor (English comedian and singer for The Goodies), 79, Coronavirus[05 May 2020] Millie Small (Jamaican singer), 73, stroke[09 May 2020] Little Richard (American rock and roll pianist and singer), 87, bone cancer[04 Jun 2020] Steve Priest (British bassist and singer for The Sweet), 72[08 Jun 2020] Bonnie Pointer (American singer for The Pointer Sisters), 69, cardiac arrest[18 Jun 2020] Vera Lynn (British singer), 103[23 Jun 2020] Margarita Pracatan (Cuban singer), 89[06 Jul 2020] Charlie Daniels (American country singer-songwriter and musician), 83, hemorrhagic stroke[06 Jul 2020] Ennio Morricone (Italian film composer), 91, complications from a fall[25 Jul 2020] Peter Green (English rock singer-songwriter and guitarist for Fleetwood Mac), 73[06 Aug 2020] Wayne Fontana (English singer for The Mindbenders), 74, cancer[06 Sep 2020] Bruce Williamson (American singer for The Temptations), 49, Coronavirus[21 Sep 2020] Tommy DeVito (Singer for The Four Seasons), 92, Coronavirus[19 Oct 2020] Spencer Davis (Singer), 81, Heart Attack[19 Oct 2020] Gordon Haskell (Singer, king Crimson), 74, cancer[14 Nov 2020] Des O’Connor (Singer TV host & comedian), 88, A fall

Monty Python – Galaxy Song (02:43)
Kenny Rogers – The Gambler (03:19)
Sandie Shaw – Puppet On A String (02:21)
Bill Withers – Lovely Day (04:13)
Fountains of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom (03:18)
Alex Harvey – Delilah (04:04)
The Goodies – Funky Gibbon (03:23)
Millie – My Boy Lollipop (02:10)
Little Richard – Tutti Frutti (02:25)
The Sweet – Blockbuster (03:23)
The Pointer Sisters – Neutron Dance (03:50)
Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again (03:01)
Margarita Pracatan – Crazy (01:34)
The Charlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down To Georgia (03:35)
Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (02:36)
Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way (03:38)
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders – The Game of Love (02:04)
The Temptations – Just My Imagination (03:49)
Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons – Working My Way Back To You (03:05)
Gordon Haskell – How Wonderful You Are (03:56)
The Spencer Davis Group – Keep On Running (02:56)
Des O’connor – I Pretend (02:49)