Open up the info box to read more about the soul icons honored in this song: The Bar-Kays – (Four members of the band died in a plane crash in 1967. Singer Otis Redding was also on the plane.) Jimi Hendrix (Died in 1970 from a possible overdose of sleeping pills. His death was never fully explained.) Sam Cooke (In 1964, Cooke was shot dead at age 33 by a hotel manager who claimed Cooke threatened her. The courts ruled it justifiable homicide.) Otis Redding (Died in a plane crash at age 26 in 1967.) John Coltrane (Nicknamed Trane, died from liver cancer at age 40 in 1954.) Miles Davis (Died in 1991 from a stroke at age 65.) Junior Walker (Died in 1995 from cancer at age 64.) Jackie Wilson (Wilson suffered a massive heart attack while singing Lonely Teardrops on the Dick Clark Show in 1975. He fell and hit his head, which left him comatose. For the next eight years and four months he was in a vegetative state until his death at age 49 in 1984.) Sammy Davis (Died in 1990 from throat cancer at age 64.) Ella Fitzgerald (Died in 1996 from complications with diabetes at age 79.) Mahalia Jackson (Died in 1972 from heart failure and diabetes complications at age 60.) Elvis Presley (Died in 1977 at age 42 from prescription drug intoxication.) ZZ Hill (Died from a heart attack in 1984 at age 48.) Al Jackson (Drummer for the band Booker T. & the MGs and great song writer for Stax Record Label artists. He was murdered in his home in 1975 at age 39. It is believed that his wife had him …