2016: the year the music died... and it’s only April

That’s not to slight Kendrick Lamar, Sturgill Simpson, Beyonce or some unknown creator working in a basement to turn the sounds in their head into a file for everyone to hear and enjoy.
But any year that silences the voices behind ‘Sign O’ The Times’, ‘Space Oddity’, ‘Tequila Sunrise’, ‘Shining Star’, And ‘The Bottle Let Me Down’ can’t qualify as anything other than awful.