2002 in music

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Deaths

• January 7 - Jon Lee (33), Feeder drummer, suicide.
• January 21 - Peggy Lee, Jazz performer, most famous for song Fever ("You give me fever...")
• February 1 - Hildegard Knef (76), actress, singer, writer
• February 13 - Waylon Jennings
• February 24 - Leo Ornstein, composer, 109
• February 27 - Dudley Moore, English composer, pianist and actor
• March 1 - Doreen Waddell, vocalist of bands Soul II Soul and KLF
• March 4 - Mark Vann (39), Leftover Salmon, melanoma
• March 23 - Eileen Farrell (82), operatic soprano
• March 24 - Dorothy Delay, Juilliard School violin teacher of Itzhak Perlman and Midori
• April 5 - Layne Staley, member of Alice in Chains
• April 25 - Lisa Lopes, member of TLC
• April 27 - Hillous Butrum, country musician
• March 26 - Randy Castillo (41), drummer for Ozzy Osbourne & Mötley Crüe
• May 7 - Xavier Montsalvatge, composer
• June 5 - Dee Dee Ramone, 49, The Ramones
• June 27 - John Entwistle (57), bassist for The Who
• June 29 - Rosemary Clooney, US singer and actress
• July 2 - Ray Brown (75), jazz bassist
• July 2 - Earle Brown, composer
• August 2 - Joe Allison, songwriter
• August 14 - Dave Williams, member of Drowning Pool
• August 31 - Lionel Hampton (94), vibraphone virtuoso
• September 20 - Joan Littlewood, impresario
• September 29 - Mickey Newbury, singer, songwriter
• October 24 - Adolph Green, lyricist
• October 30 - Jam Master Jay, member of Run DMC
• November 3 - Lonnie Donegan, musician
• November 21 - Hadda Brooks, U.S. jazz singer, pianist and composer, 86
• December 9 - Mary Hansen, member of Stereolab
• December 22 - Joe Strummer, member of The Clash