Soul, Reggae, Funk Artists That Died in Their Prime...

cornelius blackfoot sorry to rain on the parade, but curtis mayfield only died a couple of years back 99 and he'd been paralysed from the neck down from a lighting rig? falling on him in 1990 so I'm pretty sure that wouldn't count as his prime.
don't get me wrong I love curtis, if there's a hell below, we're all gonna go, should be the anthem for nihilists everywhere, but if we're being true to the title of the thread, then curtis don't belong there.

That's me told then! ;-)