"I WANNA LIVE TILL I DIE" - Johnny Gazalez AKA Johnny Thunders. Well he has and sad to say there's more than a few more punk deaths occuring as the years tick by. Here are a few recent and not so recent obituaries who are hitting the big bar in the sky...

2009 Lux Interior - The Cramps (Latest) 2008 Trogg - Contempt (Latest) Jagger - Punk fan Good local punk who i had known since the early 80's. He sadly died from Motor Neurone Disease last summer. 2007 Tony Wilson - Punk Enthusiast 2006 Gary 'Gash' Brown - Barse Sandy West - The Runaways Tom Pig - Poison Idea Jason  Sears - RKL Died on February 1st 2006 no more details. 2005 John Loder - Sound Egineer/Producer Dave Goodman - Producer (Sex Pistols) Marshall Rohner - Guitarist Marshall played with Jimmy and the Mustangs, T.S.O.L., Cruzados - (with Tito Larriva and Chalo Quintana)   great guy, great guitar player. The needle and the damage done. Jet Rash 2004 John Peel - British Radio DJ Johnny Ramone - The Ramones John McGeoch - Magazine/Banshees/PIL Also respect goes out to the following punks who hit the big bar in the sky in 2004. Brandon - Leftover Crack/X-Possibles Young drummer 24 year old Brandon Chevalier-Kolling who drummed for New Jerseys Leftover Crack /X-possibles died in his sleep on December 17th from an accidental night of excess in Dallas, Texas, while on tour with Leftover Crack. There's fitting obituarys posted by band mates at the following adresses www.leftovercrack.com/page/news.html Robert Heaton - New Model Army The former drummer passed away on Thursday 4th November. An inquest concluded he was suffering from pancreatic cancer. Mark Greenwell - Concrete Sox/ Varukers/ Poundaflesh The UK guitarist passed away on Sunday 31st October of an on-going illness. Stig - Icons Of Filth Died suddenly on Friday October 21st right after the band played a set. A Condolence book is on the London Punks website. www.londonpunks.co.uk/index2.htm Greg Shaw - Bomp Records Greg Shaw of the pioneering Bomp! Records label (October 21st). JJ Bedsore - The Blood South London's early 80's shock rock combo The Blood (formerly Coming Blood) who were described at the time as "a cross between Motorhead, The Stranglers and Alice Cooper" have recently lost their beerswilling guitarist JJ Bedsore. Joe Bedsore (44) died on Tuesday 20th July 2004 JJ (real name Jamie Cantwell) had been ill for the last few months, and died from multiple organ failure. Stu P. didiot - Charge Stu-p-idiot the wild guitarist outta early 80's UK punks Charge passed away last summer, another victim of Cancer.

2002 Joe Strummer - The Clash Nils Stevenson - Manager/Mentor Henry Knowles - Agression Giussepe Codeluppi - Raw Power Dee Dee Ramone - The Ramones Chris Burleigh - Assert 2001 Stuart Adamson - The Skids Bianca Halstead - Betty Blowtorch Joey Ramone - The Ramones Bryan Gregory - The Cramps 1996 Jeffrey Lee Pierce - The Gun Club 1979 Sid Vicious - Sex Pistols Thanx to all the punks who wrote some of these epitaphs. If you want one putting up or wanna contribute one just email me at pdontcare77@hotmail.com