Unfortunately, so did Webster. While giving a comedy performance at the UC San Diego campus, Shawn fell and struck his head on the stage. The end of the world is about people being dead, after all. Early life and personal life [ edit] Zoltan Kocsis, a famed pianist and conductor and musical director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, has died at age 64. Rhythms are an essential part of music. He was playng a song called LOVE" when he fell apart after about 2 minutes while playback continued. It was during a gig with OHM in May 2016 that Menza's heart gave out. The tenor sang the role of Vitek, an old man who works in a law firm. This professional wrestler lost his life when he fell from a height of 90 feet as he was being lowered into the ring for the "Over the Edge" sports entertainment event in Kansas City, Missouri. Shortly after taking the stage and delivering some stage chatter in Japanese (which he claimed to speak in "Ain't That a B****"), Watson collapsed and died from what was later determined to be a heart attack. "Movies - Movie Times - Movie Trailers - Movie News - TV - TV Shows - TV News - Moviefone.com", "Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, and the cast of Carry On: what happened next? He'd suffered a heart attack. As they were topping up the cement, the level suddenly dropped eighteen inches. 10 musicians who died while on stage | Gigwise He was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. Though several theories about Gale's motivations were floated, none of them could be conclusively proven. Back in the '50s and '60s, Wheeler was one of the great country music sidemen, back when they still called it "country and Western music." Nick Menza was so metal that he was once a member of Megadeth. This famous actor and singer suffered a fatal stroke while performing onstage at the Doral Country Club in Miami at age 65. He became the Hungarian National Philharmonics music director in 1997. According to a report of the jump from theNew York Evening Post,in mid-descent, Patch's body "began to droop, his arms were extended, and his legs separated." In 1827, Sam Patch became one of the first famous daredevils, regularly jumping off a ledge over Passaic Falls in New Jersey into the water below. This 83-year-old actor suffered a heart attack during a 25 November 1977 performance in Chicago of the musical Side By Side, causing him to slip into a coma from which he never recovered. A guest on the Dick Cavett Show the next day, while Cavett was discussing politics with journalist Pete Hamill, Rodale's head dropped to his chest and he was heard to let out what sounded like a snore. The other band members moved into the next song but stopped when they noticed Montana was silent. Assistants shoveled three feet of soil onto the casket, then a truck poured concrete into the hole. Another actor playing Judas mistakenly hanged himself in Camerata Nuova, a town 45 miles from Rome. Around 45 minutes later, Bule was still doing her show when she started vomited and seizing. At the end of the song "The Girl I Almost Married," Montana collapsed onto the drums. He was 64. And while he's on the floor, he's still magically singing. A light could fall and hit a performer, or a musician could slip and fall off the stage, to name two possibilities. His dissertation at the Liszt Academy was an analysis of the folk material. 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott, formerly of the metal act Pantera, was shot by a jilted fan while performing with his new group, Damageplan.