Music Obituaries

Producer who entertained Jamaican revellers for half a century with his Merritone sound system

Scholar of JS Bach who shed new light on Easter music

Fifth generation of the renowned Liverpool firm of pipe organ builders Rushworth and Dreaper

Singer and son of Frank Sinatra who hit the headlines when he was abducted from a motel in 1963

Composer, conductor and one-time enfant terrible who became Master of the Queen’s Music

Virtuoso keyboardist and co-founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer whose amped-up takes on the classics helped to define ‘prog rock’

Party-going impresario who challenged the censors with Oh! Calcutta! and later produced the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show

Gifted record producer hailed as 'the Fifth Beatle’ who signed the band and went on to help them revolutionise popular music