# John Sykes has passed away **URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597 **Category:** General Music Discussion **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597 "2025-01-20T21:17:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 12 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Riffdiculous](https://forum.troygrady.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@Riffdiculous](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Riffdiculous) #### Post date: [January 20, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/1 "2025-01-20T21:17:49Z")
Awful news, I didn’t realize he was ill. > **[Legendary Guitarist JOHN SYKES Dead At 65](https://blabbermouth.net/news/legendary-guitarist-john-sykes-dead-at-65)** > > Legendary English guitarist John Sykes (TYGERS OF PAN TANG, THIN LIZZY, WHITESNAKE, BLUE MURDER, SYKES) has died at the age of 65. Earlier today (Monday, January 20),the following statement was posted on Sykes's social media: "It is with great sorrow... ---
### Author: ![NCASO](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/ncaso/32/11145_2.png) [@NCASO](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/NCASO) #### Post date: [January 20, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/2 "2025-01-20T22:18:46Z")
oh man, this is just the worst… he is one of my faves, great inspiration… One of the best of his era. ![John_Sykes_1984](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fc01f3bb7aa8bd10405ce9ab395abbff79a7ca1b.jpeg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZrVUr-Hk760/maxresdefault.jpg "Blue Murder - Out Of Love (HQ)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrVUr-Hk760) ---
### Author: ![Ruefus](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/ruefus/32/11660_2.png) [@Ruefus](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Ruefus) #### Post date: [January 20, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/3 "2025-01-20T23:07:29Z")
Saw him with Blue Murder. 65 is young. Sorry to hear. ---
### Author: ![aliendough](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/aliendough/32/716_2.png) [@aliendough](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/aliendough) #### Post date: [January 20, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/4 "2025-01-20T23:27:20Z")
very sorry to read this. RIP. ---
### Author: ![Scottulus](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/scottulus/32/12697_2.png) [@Scottulus](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Scottulus) #### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/5 "2025-01-21T02:17:38Z")
What? Oh no! John Sykes was so awesome - sad news. ---
### Author: ![Fossegrim](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/fossegrim/32/13793_2.png) [@Fossegrim](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Fossegrim) #### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/6 "2025-01-21T14:53:15Z")
Well he had cancer and apparently he had been declining for some time now. ---
### Author: ![Dissonant\_Timbres](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/dissonant_timbres/32/14080_2.png) [@Dissonant\_Timbres](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Dissonant_Timbres) #### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/7 "2025-01-21T18:42:35Z")
RIP [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hHG9wXCpdTI/maxresdefault.jpg "Cold Sweat") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHG9wXCpdTI) ---
### Author: ![gerardc](https://forum.troygrady.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/53a042/32.png) [@gerardc](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/gerardc) #### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/8 "2025-01-25T20:34:49Z")
Very sad news. I only discovered him recently when Ben Eller did a video about his work with whitesnake. Love this Thin Lizzy footage too. What a trail blazer. Keep shredding you golden god. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jIvBpe7q1Cg/hqdefault.jpg "Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat (Live, 1983)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvBpe7q1Cg) ---
### Author: ![Dissonant\_Timbres](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/dissonant_timbres/32/14080_2.png) [@Dissonant\_Timbres](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Dissonant_Timbres) #### Post date: [January 26, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/9 "2025-01-26T03:42:00Z")
When I bought Megadeth’s Super Collider (their worst album) the cover of Cold Sweat was the only good song and it introduced me to this era of Thin Lizzy. ---
### Author: ![kgk](https://forum.troygrady.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@kgk](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/kgk) #### Post date: [January 26, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/10 "2025-01-26T07:44:30Z")
The above are good, but this is how I will remember him: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hfsZ4EzSn80/maxresdefault.jpg "Blue Murder - Valley Of The Kings") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfsZ4EzSn80) ---
### Author: ![Dissonant\_Timbres](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/dissonant_timbres/32/14080_2.png) [@Dissonant\_Timbres](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Dissonant_Timbres) #### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/11 "2025-02-06T01:27:34Z")
Another great cover of my favorite Sykes/Lizzy song [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lZwCALAtiGw/maxresdefault.jpg "Cold Sweat") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZwCALAtiGw) ---
### Author: ![NCASO](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/ncaso/32/11145_2.png) [@NCASO](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/NCASO) #### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/john-sykes-has-passed-away/84597/12 "2025-02-11T23:20:59Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/npoUI1obH_M/hqdefault.jpg "Blue Murder Billy on the Big AL Show") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npoUI1obH_M) Check out that picking hand!!! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Iwf_cjPiZBU/maxresdefault.jpg "John Sykes solo #guitarsolo #guitarist #guitar #guitarshred #shredguitar #bluemurder #johnsykes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwf_cjPiZBU)