Any deaths of celebrities that oddly affected you? [View all]

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I'm not talking about people who you were devoted fans of your entire life or you considered your personal hero from when you were a kid.

I'm talking about someone who may have been on the periphery of your interests, or you were just a casual fan, but after they passed, you felt it especially hard for some weird reason?

For me, it's Tom Petty. I didn't really start listening to his music until about 10 years ago, long after most of his best-known songs had been written and played to death. But he was always such a good person to listen to on long road trips, like a travel companion, and he had such a chill, gentle persona about him, that after he died last year, it really got to me. And honestly it still does. Maybe because I found him an oasis of calm in an increasingly crazy world.