It's always very sad to hear that someone who means something to you dies, but there was only one that really shocked me to the core. I was helping to run a youth camp many years ago, someone was reading a paper and mentioned that Eric Clapton had narrowly missed death by not getting on a flight, I casually took the paper to have a look and just went white as a ghost to see that my favourite guitarist, Stevie Ray Vaughan had actually died in the crash. I just had to get away from people, so I wandered off by myself for a couple of hours just trying to get my head around it. I couldn't play any of his records for a year after that. He had so much more great music and inspired playing in him.