The Year in Music 2024: Phil Lesh, Dickey Betts among the music greats we lost this year

Grateful Dead fans were shocked when it was announced that bassist Phil Lesh died on Oct. 25 at age 84. Lesh, who co-founded the iconic jam band with Jerry GarciaBobby WeirRon "Pigpen" McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965, cowrote several of the band's iconic tunes, including "Truckin'" and "Box of Rain."

May 1: ELO keyboardist Richard Tandy, who appeared on all of ELO's records since 1973's ELO 2, 76

May 7: Music producer Steve Albini, who produced Nirvana's In Utero, 61