Deaths
- 4 January - Phil Lynott, singer, musician, (Thin Lizzy), 36 (overdose)
- 27 January - Ken Moule, jazz pianist, 60
- 3 April - Peter Pears, operatic tenor and partner of Benjamin Britten, 75
- 3 June - Anna Neagle, actress, singer and dancer, 81
- 26 June - William Lovelock, composer, 86
- date unknown - Arthur Rosebery, pianist and singer
Read more about this topic: 1986 In British Music
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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