People (famous) who have passed away during your younger years and you have only now appreciated their loss?

[Snooks1971]

Apolgies for the clunky title.
Im 50 and only now appreciating Kurt Cobain through dd13. What a waste.

Pete Burns. Great voice, beautiful. Have only just been listening to tracks other Spin Me. He was a year older than me but not on my radar in the 80s - shame !

Freddie Mercury, I was 10 when he passed. It's just devastating that I was never able to see him perform live, the good do truly die young.

Oh god yes re Freddie! I never understood why my Dad raved about him. I get it now though, too late.

@Greyhair59 ha always loved Pete Burns! Arghh I seem sadly so fickle when I was young…

Pete burns was fairly recently, surely?
For me it's Kurt cobain.

Definitely Freddie. And Amy Winehouse will be the one for the future.

Jeff Buckley, didn't know of him until I met Dh years after his death.

Definitely Freddie Mercury. I hust about remember being told he died and thinking "who cares. I don't know who he is". I was 7.

And Roald Dahl. I always think of him as being pre my lifetime but actually very very vaguely remember hearing about his death too and not really realising exactly what that meant.

Richey Edwards, Manic Street Preachers.

Karen Carpenter. I’ve never heard a voice like hers.