h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

WIth the death announced today of guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke, all three members of the classic Motorhead line-up (the others being Lemmy and Philthy Animal Taylor) have died in the last couple of years.

We must have lost a few other classic rock & roll line-ups over the years - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Hendrix, Redding, Mitchell) is another that springs to mind.

Can you name any others?

The Ramones

The Rolling Stones are surely re-animated cadavers

I'm not a fan so I'm not that familiar with their line ups, but haven't the main original members of AC/DC "joined the bleedin' choir invisible"?

The Bill Haley and his Comet - Rock around the clock (single) band have all shuffled off this mortal coil.

There is one surviving band member from the recording of the album.

And isn't that THE rock and roll band?

PP

When I read that, I mentally pronounced it "Bill Hal-ee" and the Comets" rather than "Hey-Lee". When I was a kid it was "Hey-Lee's" comet and now it's "Hal-ee's".

Weird right?

The drummer from Buddy Holly's Crickets is still alive...

These are quite tricky to find. There are surviving members of The Walker Brothers, The Righteous Brothers and The Everly Brothers.

But the Andrews Sisters are now all members of the Heavenly Host - although they are more famous for their early close harmony stuff and none of their later slightly rocky attempts really worked...

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Of the seven [sic] members of the Chad Mitchell Trio, two are known to be dead [John Denver and Joe Frazier].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chad_Mitchell_Trio

Not all of AC/DC are dead - but they're certainly mostly incapacitated.

Shuffled off this electromagnetic coil.

PP.

I sem tor ecall that it was sometimes hard to tell whether AC/DCers were dead or alive.

This calls for an AC/DC version of Stayin' Alive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrlWWrSwaB8

Where did you disco-ver that?

Who you gonna call?

https://youtu.be/jiH1wNmZTII

H2G2 is like a steampunk version of the net these days.

http://youtu.be/jiH1wNmZTII

Well, separate the punk from the steam then.