Previous to social media and the Web, music followers came upon in regards to the deaths of their favourite artists in quite a lot of methods, whereas watching TV, listening to the radio or in some circumstances, they obtained the information as they had been attending a live performance.

On Dec. 8, 1980, Stevie Surprise shared the unhappy information concerning the tragic demise of John Lennon along with his followers throughout his efficiency on the Oakland Coliseum. “I would like you all to grasp that I am not an individual who likes to be the bearer of any unhealthy information,” he stated. “Somebody has not too long ago been shot. He was shot tonight. Thrice.”

Together with his voice breaking, he continued, “I’m speaking about Mr. John Lennon.”

Information of the 1994 demise of Kurt Cobain, later dominated a suicide, unfold shortly throughout the radio and tv airwaves. MTV’s Kurt Loder opened up his regular weekly broadcast within the first week of April with a somber tone, “That is an version of ‘The Week in Rock’ we hoped we’d by no means need to do, a memorial for Kurt Cobain.” He knowledgeable his listeners {that a} county medical expert in Seattle had recognized the physique discovered on Friday morning because the Nirvana frontman.

Maryland listeners had been among the many first to be taught the information of the tragic aircraft crash that may declare the lives of a number of members of Lynyrd Skynyrd in October of 1977. DJ Randy Roberts broke common programming on WMJS-FM to make the announcement that the Federal Aviation Administration was reporting the crash of a aircraft “carrying 25 passengers in Southwest Mississippi.”

Amongst these on board, he shared, had been the “Lynyrd Skynyrd rock group.” In his preliminary reporting, Roberts additionally gave some specifics of the FAA bulletin which famous that there have been “a number of fatalities and a few survivors.”

The beneath video collects a variety of demise bulletins from throughout the years, together with Eddie Van Halen, Freddie Mercury, Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix and others.

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