https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/arts/music/mark-lanegan-dead.html

Mark Lanegan, a singer for Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age and an integral part of the 1980s and 1990s grunge scene in the Pacific Northwest, died on Tuesday at his home in Killarney, Ireland. He was 57.

SKH Music, a management company, confirmed his death in a statement but did not specify a cause.

In the statement, SKH Music called Mr. Lanegan “a beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician.”

Though his stints in the bands Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age and the Gutter Twins never brought him the kind of fame achieved by Nirvana and Soundgarden, other Seattle grunge bands, he was known for his scratchy yet full-bodied voice that could take a song to both soaring heights and melancholy lows.

Mr. Lanegan’s voice was a defining element of hits like Screaming Trees’ 1992 song “Nearly Lost You” and Queens of the Stone Age’s 2000 record “Feel Good Hit of the Summer.” He wrote candidly about drugs and a self-destructive lifestyle.

Mark William Lanegan was born on Nov. 25, 1964, in Ellensburg, Wash., a small farming city, according to his IMDb page.

He is survived by his wife, Shelley, SKH Music said. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.

Rest in peace.

Damn...three music legends gone in a week...

Jamal Edward's:rip:
Gary Brooker:rip:
Mark Lanegan:rip:

Mark Lanegan was one of the first vocalists I heard in the Seattle grunge scene thirty years ago. I bought Screaming Trees' 'Uncle Anesthesia' in 1991 several months before Nirvana and Pearl Jam hit it huge that fall. Alice In Chains and Soundgarden were there, but Mark Lanegan's world-weary voice struck a chord with me. Screaming Trees for some reason never made the big time like the other Seattle bands did (they were from Ellensburg, from central Washington), but the whole point was that grunge bands regardless of their "star status" had something to contribute.

I just heard their song "Butterfly" on KISW a few minutes ago, and it has the line "I'm sick and I want to go home." For some reason Mark Lanegan sounded like a person who was never really so healthy. I read that he had a crippling heroin addiction like so many of his Seattle peers. The last I read he played a show or two at the Neptune Theater in the University District, but that was a few years ago. Screaming Trees, in addition to their song "Nearly Lost You" and "All I Know", was known for the tumultuous relationship between the Conner brothers in the band. Lanegan had a promising solo career with such albums as 'Whiskey For the Holy Ghost' back in the 90's, and he was briefly a member of Queens Of the Stone Age.

Is the Seattle music scene cursed? So many big names have died over the years.