Kaos) 10 September - Matthew Keaney, Irish singer (Reel) 3 October - Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer-songwriter (Mytown, The Script) 9 November - Philip Gargan, Irish singer (Reel) 15 December - Sergio Pizzorno, guitarist with Kasabian date unknown - Catrin Finch, harpist Deaths 25 January - Queenie Watts, actress and singer, 53 (cancer) 18 February - Muriel Brunskill, operatic contralto, 80 19 February - Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC, 33 (alcohol poisoning) 4 May - Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson, pianist, 60 18 May - Ian Curtis, musician and singer (Joy Division), 23 (suicide) 5 July - A. J. Potter, composer (born 1918) 6 July - Frank Cordell, composer, arranger and conductor, 62 24 July - Peter Sellers, comic actor and singer ("Goodness Gracious Me"), 54 (heart attack) 25 September - John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin), 32 (asphyxiation) 30 September - Horace Finch, pianist and organist, 74 27 October - Steve Peregrin Took, bongo player for Tyrannosaurus Rex, frontman for Shagrat and Steve Took's Horns, solo artist, 31 (asphyxiation) 8 December - John Lennon, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Beatles), 40 (murdered) See also 1980 in British radio 1980 in British television 1980 in the United Kingdom References British music British music by year