What are your Top 10 saddest moments in Rock history?

Question

List the top 10 (or as many as your want) saddest moments in rock, if you are going to mentioned deaths please create 2 seperate lists :) Thanks !!

Mine would be ..

Moments - not sure yet :)

Deaths -
1. Ian Curtis - don't flame me for putting him over the others, it's just that he hadn't peaked yet, the others did :(

2. Elliot Smith
3. Jim Morrison
4. Janis Joplin
5. Buddy Holly
6. Darby Crash :(
7. Jimi Hendrix ( I LOVE this man, I didn't place him higher because he accomplished ALOT before he passed away)

I WANT MY OLD MTV - you're so right, i can't believe I didn't add Lennon, good one

Thanks so much for all your answers it's going to be hard to pick a best answer.

Here are the one's that stood out to me.

1. Emo/Glam Metal
2. Zeppelin Breaking up (due to Jon dying)
3. Gangsta Rap/Pop/Boy Bands
4. Rock Reality Shows
5. Ozzy Leaving black Sabbath

Deaths
1. Lennon
2. Freddy Mercury
3. Bob Marley
4. Kurt Cobain
5. Randy Rhoads

Answer 1

10. Jim Morrison's Death
9. Jimi Hendrix
8. Black Sabbath
7. Axl Rose
6. Aerosmith and Brittney Spears
5. Tribute Bands
4. Creation of Rap
3. Break Up of Guns N' Roses
2. Kurt Cobain's Death
1. How little people now a days are into it

Answer 2

Deaths:
#1: John Lennon
#2: Bob Marley
#3: Bon Scott
#4: Syd Barrett
#5: John Bonham
#6: Freddie Mercury
#7: Buddy Holly
#8: Dimebag Darrell
#9: Kurt Cobain
#10: Johnny Ramone

Also the one and only disappointment that is possible for the #1 position is modern MTV (in case my parody of a nickname of Sting's line from "Money for Nothing" didn't give it away). The rest goes like this:

#2: Beatles infiltrate the USA
#3: Syd Barrett's mental breakdown
#4: MTV sucks in Kid Rock
#5: Linkin Park and Jay Z's "Collision Course"
#6: KISS taking off the facepaint after no one really cared anymore
#7: Hip Hop community releases a Led Zeppelin tribute album.
#8: Radio stations play "I Write Sins Not Tradgedies" by Panic! At the Disco an average of once every hour and 8.4 minutes.
#9: Chinese Democracy will be a reality by the time the actual album by Guns N' Roses is released
#10: Green Day goes political

Answer 3

1. Cliff Burton
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Bon Scott
4. Jon Bonham
5. Dimebag Darrell
6. Keith Moon
7. Freddie Mercury
8. Randy Rhoads
9. Phil Lynott
10. John Lennon

Answer 4

1. Gabriel leaves Genesis
2. Leo Sayer born
3. Syd Barrett loses the plot
4. Bee Gees lose the ability to sing below the whistling register
5. Oasis form
6. Mr and Mrs Bon Jovi decide to go ahead even though the chemist is closed.
7. Shatner decides to give singing a bash
8. May and Taylor decide Queen didn't really need Freddie; hire Paul Rodgers
9. Elton John decides to use a carpet sample as an ingenious cover up for his baldness.
10. The eighties - not really a moment but hey-ho.

Answer 5

the death of
Elvis Presley
John Lennon
Kurt Cobain
Freddie Mercury
Keith Moon
George Harrision
Roy Orbison
John Bonham
Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin
Buddy Holly

Answer 6

Deaths-
John Lennon
Joey Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone
Johnny Ramone
Joe Strummer
Joe Cole - not a musician but was murdered infront of henry rollins - pretty sad.
Layne Stanley -
John Peel - of the peel sessions
jeff buckley
George Harrison
Johnny Cash

Not so much sad as dissapointing things
The Birth of the boy bands - and things like Brittney Spears.
Paris Hilton releasing an album
P-diddy/puff Daddy- what ever his name is.
MTV switching from music to all the crap they have on their now.
Todays 15 + teens and young adults claiming they are "punk" because they shop at Hot Topics and wear a sex pistols pin.

Answer 7

Whenever people started thinking that the rock you hear on mainstream stations nowadays is good. I mean Van Halen was mainstream back in the day and they were good but when you start thinking bands like the All American Rejects are actual rock bands then thats where i draw the line. I'm sorry i didn't list the 9 others and i know im not gonna get the best answer, but i had to state what i said because people thinking this new mainstream rock stuff is actually rock is killing me.

Answer 8

In no order:

Nipplegate
Gene Simmons's reality show
Diamond Dave out of Van Halen
Buddy Holly's death
Talking Heads breakup
Too many sucky band "reunions" (aka We Need the Money tours)
Col. Parker agrees to manage Elvis
The invention of the CD... 'cause every band thinks they have 78 minutes of music in them, when they're lucky if they have 30.
MTV debuts The Real World
Oldies stations ditch 50s music to make room for lame @ss 70s soft rock on their rosters.

Answer 9

John Lennon's assassination. Sorry, but nothing else even comes close, not even Elvis's death.
Maybe, maybe the closest is Buddy Holly's death.
Even though Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died as well, Buddy Holly held the most promise of a legendary career.

Answer 10

Deaths

~Elvis Presley
~Buddy Holly
~John Lennon
~Kurt Cobain
~Freddy Mecury

Other

~Pink Floyd breaking up
~rock songs getting re-made into hip hop crap