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

With many thanks to Gosho who came up with this fine concept. Here is a list of 26 musicians who are no longer with us. Post your guesses as to who they are below.

The vast majority are British. Or if they're foreign, then they were mainly successful in the British market.

A small prize will be awarded to the person who gets the most right



1) Ousted at Aust, probably

2) I don't think Jody Foster was impressed after all

3) She's small and Scottish, and got smaller and smaller and smaller...

4) I believe that all of his associates are still alive

5) Have a stab at this one: "There's no cure for cancer"

6) New footwear, new underwear, new Hickman line please

7) A dead drummer was a real downer for this indie combo

8) First an armed robbery, then dead in a car crash. Who says keyboard players are no fun

9) A high flying drummer who couldn't hold his drink

10) Folk singer - fell downstairs, hit her head. Badly as it turned out

11) He didn't die in a plane crash, but he did die on a plane

12) Take your heart down the Westway to Somerset

13) Lordy! I'd've noticed if I'd been run over by a car in Paris

14) Ham hung up to cure and dry

15) An American kid raised in Germany. He couldn't sing a note

16) The end of a long political career

17) No joy for this young man

18) A British bluesman went to Canada and got a chesty cough

19) Stob sobbing, you can find another lead guitarist. Honest

20) ... and a new bass player whilst you're at it

21) The 'tache should have told me that he was of Iranian origin

22) A Scottish chap who could have had a nasty electic shock if the booze hadn't got to him first

23) Let's go steal a duck

24) Mind out for that speedboat. Ooops!

25) His heart wasn't in it after he lost all his money in the dot.com crash

26) A Welshman who liked a good feed, apparently

27) You might have been as strong as an ox once. But at 57 the body can't take the coke like it used to.

24) Kirsty Maccoll

5) Got to be George Harrison...

17) Ian Curtis?

The first three are right

21) Freddie Mercury

Ooops! Type alert

"19) Stop sobbing, you can find another lead guitarist. Honest"

Fer f*cksakes!

"Typo alert"

8) Rob Collins

16) Screaming Lord Sutch

4) I believe that all of his associates are still alive - Billy McKenzie

5) Have a stab at this one: "There's no cure for cancer" - George Harrison

9) A high flying drummer who couldn't hold his drink... John Bonham

17) No joy for this young man - Ian Curtis

21) The 'tache should have told me that he was of Iranian origin. Freddy Mercury

23) Let's go steal a duck - Nick Drake

24) Mind out for that speedboat. Ooops! Kirsty McColl

26) A Welshman who liked a good feed, apparently - Richey Edwards?


The rest are tough

27) John Entwistle

"19) Stop sobbing, you can find another lead guitarist. Honest"

That chap from the Pretenders something-smith?

James Honeyman-Scott. Something-Smith was close

Oh and 20 is Pete Farndon, same band.

You're all doing very well so far

26 isn't Richey, though.

3 could be Lena Zavarone. Can't think of any other scottish anorexics

You only need the one skinny Scot, kelli

10) Sandy Denny

13) Stiv Bators?