December 22
Punk rock lost its passionate heart today in 2002 when Joe Strummer died of a congenital heart defect at 50, ending the life of The Clash's visionary frontman whose political fire and musical adventurousness made him one of rock's most important and principled voices… Blue-eyed soul mourned its most powerful voice today in 2014 when Joe Cocker died of lung cancer at his Colorado home at 70, silencing the Sheffield singer whose spastic performances and gravelly interpretations of others' songs made him one of rock's most distinctive interpreters… Pop's queen of reinvention married British film director Guy Ritchie today in 2000 at Scotland's Skibo Castle, Madonna's union with the "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" director producing a son before their acrimonious divorce eight years later… Disco royalty arrived in double today in 1949 when twins Robin and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees were born on the Isle of Man, the brother...
