88 singers who had hit songs in the 1980s and have passed away:
1. Tina Turner
2. Anita Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)
3. Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
4. Irene Cara
5. Dan McCafferty (Nazareth)
6. Olivia NewtonJohn
7. Diego Verdaguer
8. Meat Loaf
9. Nick Kamen
10. Tony Lewis (The Outfield)
11. Benny Mardones
12. Mory Kanté
13. Bill Withers
14. Kenny Rogers
15. Marie Fredriksson (Roxette)
16. Greedy Smith (Mental As Anything)
17. Ric Ocasek (The Cars)
18. Eddie Money
19. Mark Hollis (Talk Talk)
20. James Ingram
21. Marty Balin
22. Aretha Franklin
23. Rose Laurens
24. Paul Gray (Wa Wa Nee)
25. France Gall
26. Tom Petty (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
27. John Wetton (Asia)
28. Loalwa Braz (Kaoma)
29. George Michael (Wham!)
30. Colonel Abrams
31. Pete Burns (Dead or Alive)
32. Prince
33. Colin Vearncombe (Black)
34. Glenn Frey
35. David Bowie
36. Natalie Cole
37. Jim Diamond (Ph.D.)
38. Steve Strange (Visage)
39. Joe Cocker
40. Alvin Stardust
41. Jimi Jamison (Survivor)
42. Chrissy Amphlett (Divinyls)
43. Brian Hibbard (Flying Pickets)
44. Robin Gibb (Bee Gees)
45. Donna Summer
46. Whitney Houston
47. Nick Ashford (Ashford & Simpson)
48. Jani Lane (Warrant)
49. Gary Moore
50. Teena Marie
51. Eric Woolfson (The Alan Parsons Project)
52. Michael Jackson
53. Paul Davis
54. Jeff Healey (The Jeff Healey Band)
55. Trevor Taylor (Bad Boys Blue)
56. Dan Fogelberg
57. Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot)
58. Brad Delp (Boston)
59. James Brown
60. June Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)
61. Luther Vandross
62. Izora Armstead (Weather Girls)
63. Laura Branigan
64. Rick James
65. Robert Palmer
66. Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees)
67. Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
68. George Harrison
69. Kirsty MacColl
70. Benjamin Orr (The Cars)
71. Paul Young (Mike and the Mechanics)
72. Ofra Haza
73. Eddie Rabbitt
74. Falco
75. Carl Wilson (The Beach Boys)
76. Michael Hutchence (INXS)
77. Jermaine Stewart
78. Edem Ephraim & Dennis Fuller (London Boys)
79. Dan Hartman
80. Frank Zappa
81. Freddie Mercury (Queen)
82. Melanie Appleby (Mel & Kim)
83. Roy Orbison
84. Andy Gibb
85. Daniel Balavoine
86. Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)
87. Marvin Gaye
88. Bob Marley (Bob Marley and the Wailers)