- Ernest Collins
- Frankie Knuckles
House-music legend Frankie Knuckles died yesterday at the age of 59. Along with fellow pioneers such as Larry Levan and Ron Hardy, Frankie helped strip disco’s 4/4 bass thump from its pop setting and refined it into an entirely new genre that emphasized rhythm over melody in a way that American music never had before, and in the process permanently altered the nightclub landscape.
