June is almost over, and the celebrity/musician deaths are skyrocketing... And speaking of rockets, we were pretty shocked to find out that young actor
Anton Yelchin, famous for portraying Pavel Chekov in
Star Trek, was killed by his car! From what everyone is saying, his Jeep Grand Cherokee had a faulty shift, so he thought he put it in park - when, in fact, it was in neutral. The car slammed into an unsuspecting Yelchin at the bottom of the hill at the gate.
Before Yelchin became a star, he sang and played guitar in a punk band called
The Hammerheads, aka
The Hammerheads Hollywood (not to be confused with Minneapolis’ noise band Hammerhead or late 80s band The Hammerheads). The band was active from 2008 to 2011, when Yelchin confirmed that the band broke up in 2011.
According to their
Reverb Nation:
The Hammerheads punk rock music is primarily written by singer, songwriter, guitarist and accomplished actor Anton Yelchin. Darian Campbell, son of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, plays lead guitar. Dave Glowacki, from the LA based rock band Romeo Delta, plays bass and vocals. Ryan Dean is an award winning drummer and graduate of CSUN's Jazz program.
The bands influences are The Cramps, Rancid, Blind Willie McTell, John Lee Hooker, and Iggy Pop. They are currently working on their first EP featuring a rocking single called “Girl (not yet) a Woman”.
The EP is actually called
The Hammerheads Sh*** On Your Face.
Also dead:
Parliament-Funkadelic’s keyboardist Bernie Worrell passed away at the age of 72 on June 24th.
The Stanley Brothers’ Ralph Stanley died at the age of 89 to
skin cancer on June 23rd.
Enya's father Leo Brennan died at the age of 90 on June 22nd.
Pakistani Taliban assassinated
Amjad Sabri on June 22nd. He was 45.
The Mar-Keys’ Wayne Jackson passed away at the age of 74 to congestive heart failure on June 21st.
ZZ Top’s manager Bill Ham died at the age of 79 on June 18th.
The Mexican
The Voice star
Alejandro Jano Fuentes was murdered at the age of 45 on June 18th. This is disturbing, considering that The Voice’s star Christina Grimmie was also murdered some weeks ago.
Below are more deaths for the month of June - for the full death list:
Musicians who died in 2016.
June (39)
[24 June 2016] Charles Chaynes, 90, unknown
[24 June 2016] Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic), 72, lung cancer
[23 June 2016] Ralph Stanley (The Stanley Brothers), 89, skin cancer
[22 June 2016] Jim Boyd (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), 60, natural causes
[22 June 2016] Leo Brennan (member of Clannad and Enya's father), 90, unknown
[22 June 2016] Amjad Sabri, 45, assassinated by Pakistani Taliban
[22 June 2016] Harry Rabinowitz, 100, natural causes
[21 June 2016] Guda Anjaiah, 60, unknown
[21 June 2016] Dan Daniel (WMCA), 82, unknown
[21 June 2016] Wayne Jackson (The Mar-Keys), 74, congestive heart failure
[21 June 2016] Pierre Lalonde, 75, Parkinson's disease
[21 June 2016] Freddy Powers, 84, Parkinson's disease
[20 June 2016] Chayito Valdez, 71, cerebral hemorrhage
[19 June 2016] Bob Williamson, 67, unknown
[19 June 2016] Anton Yelchin (Star Trek), 27, blunt traumatic asphyxia
[18 June 2016] Bill Ham (Manager of ZZ Top), 79, unknown
[18 June 2016] Peter Feuchtwanger), 76, unknown
[18 June 2016] Alejandro Jano Fuentes (La Voz... México - The Mexican Voice), 45, murdered
[18 June 2016] Sverre Kjelsberg (The Pussycats), 69, unknown
[17 June 2016] Tenor Fly, ?, unknown
[17 June 2016] Prince Be (P.M. Dawn), 46, kidney disease
[14 June 2016] Anatol Dumitraș, 60, cancer
[14 June 2016] Henry McCullough (Wings), 72, unknown
[13 June 2016] Ofelya Hambardzumyan, 91, unknown
[13 June 2016] Oleg Karavaychuk, 88, unknown
[13 June 2016] Chips Moman (Elvis Presley), 79, unknown
[12 June 2016] Adrian Posse, 67, lung tumor
[12 June 2016] Chris Warren (Bro-kin), 49, sudden death
[10 June 2016] Christina Grimmie, 22, murdered
[10 June 2016] Habib Mohebian (Habib), 63, cardiac arrest
[08 June 2016] Vladislav Yankovsky (Novosibirsk Youth Symphony Orchestra), 64, unknown
[06 June 2016] Rolf Schweizer), 80, unknown
[04 June 2016] Bobby Curtola, 73, unknown
[03 June 2016] Muhammad Ali, 74, respiratory issues
[03 June 2016] Mac Cocker (2JJ), ?, unknown
[03 June 2016] Dave Swarbrick (Fairport Convention), 75, emphysema
[02 June 2016] Freddie Wadling, 64, cancer
[02 June 2016] Orest Hrywnak (WBBF-AM), 59, heart attack
[02 June 2016] Corry Brokken (Eurovision), 83, not given
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