There was also Motown songwriter and producer Lamont Dozier girl group icon Ronnie Spector original rock n’ roller Jerry Lee Lewis Country legend Loretta Lynn Procol Harum’s Gary Brooker matriarch of the ‘royal family of British folk music’ Norma Waterson Hawkwind co-founder Nik Turner jazz maverick Pharoah Sanders and pub blues rocker and occasional actor Wilko Johnson, and Stranglers drummer Jet Black. Meat Loaf, whose Bat Out Of Hell is one of the biggest-selling albums of all time left us in January another massive-selling icon, Olivia Newton John, whose lengthy career had provided her with success in the movie Grease alongside a host of pop classics died in August glorious Fleetwood Mac songbird and writer Christine McVie died after a short illness at the end of November and the seemingly fearless Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins who died in March were among the big music losses. Those we lostĮach year we bid a sad farewell to a host of stars, and 2022 was no different. So, join us as we flick through the memory banks and take a look at what happened in 2022. Look, we may know our stuff at the Official Charts, but even we’re not that good. At the end of each year, it’s always interesting to reflect on the preceding twelve months and look at the unpredictable and occasionally bonkers things that have happened during another year in pop.ĭid anyone have ‘nearly winning Eurovision’, ‘Beyoncé arriving on a DISCO HORSE to save music’ or ‘An old Kate Bush song going to Number 1’ on their pop predictions list?
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