The Most Heartbreaking Celebrity Deaths Of 2016

Paul Kantner

After suffering from a heart attack a week earlier, Jefferson Airplane guitarist and singer and Jefferson Starship founder was pronounced dead on January 28, 2016. The talented individual died as a result of organ failure and septic shock at 74 years old surrounded by his three children.

Leading more than what is considered a fulfilling life, Kantner enjoyed the psychedelic charge of the sixties with ex-wife Grace Slick and even managed to power through a cerebral hemorrhage in 1980. With transcendental ballads like “White Rabbit,” an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the masterful sonic design of Top 10 albums Spitfire andEarth, the musical composition genius group made live music an experience to feel rather than just to hear. Needless to say, Paul Kantner will be greatly missed in the world of rock and roll.