I did the same thing. It's a work in progress, meaning I add to it whenever I hear a song that I used to love and forgot about. I think I named it Gone too soon but never Forgotten. Lot's of 80s music, which is my all time favorite era for music, fashion, movies, everything. And there have been so many that I listened to since their first album, and they all really influenced my passion for music and inspired me to listen to so many different genres. Today, my taste in music is so diverse that one day I'm listening to Broadway and old showtunes, and another day I'm making a Playlist of the new generation and their latest release. I'm 60 years old, GenX, and I can talk music made in the 70s, 80s, 90,s that I loved when I was young, but I can also hold my own about music released in the 2020s to today and who's popular, topping the charts, and who I have on repeat for days on Spotify. Back to the original topic, the artists I loved in my early 20s and 30s that left us too soon, I feel like I grew up with them. And when they died at around the same age as me, I had such a hard time processing the fact that they would never sing again, not in this lifetime. And, that if so many of these great talents that gave so much to the world through music could be taken at this age, it was very likely that my time could be near too, which honestly was something that I had never really considered. I think I thought that I would just always stay young and nothing would stop me.
Quick memory.... I had a subscription to 17 magazine, and I would read that from cover to cover, every single word on every single page, look at every single picture and want to look just like those 17 model, but not so much look like them, but mostly I wanted their cute, trendy, clothes, they really taught me how to be a fashionista at that time. But one of the models was this gorgeous girl and her name was Whitney. I believe she was 17, and she was in the magazine pretty regular for a while. I used to just love looking at her and her outfits and the way they did her hair, she was just so cute, so gorgeous, and then that Whitney in 17 magazine became Whitney Houston. The first song I ever heard her sing was "You Give Good Love". I heard her sing before I actually saw her, but I had to find out who sang this song that I sat with my cassette recorder waiting for it to play again on tbe radio so I could tape it. That's how we made playlists back in the 80s, Before cd's and streaming and spotify, cell phones and computers, and all that was around. Then I had to get to the mall, to Wherehouse or Tower records, to see if she had a record and other songs. And there was Whitney, my favorite Seventeen model, looking so grown up and gorgeous, on the cover of that amazing album. Whitney Houston, the model I knew from Seventeen, became the iconic and amazing best female vocalist I've ever heard, and I miss her, I really do.