ZA1. [Past] Musicians: Dead at 27 (with Cause)
Submitted by dgeiser13 on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:27
Tags:
- Dave Alexander (Iggy Pop and The Stooges), Pneumonia
- Chris Bell (Big Star), Auto accident
- Jesse Belvin (The Shields), Auto accident
- D. Boon (The Minutemen), Auto accident
- "Dyke" Christian (Dyke & The Blazers), Death by gunshot
- Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Suicide
- Don Drummond (Skatalites), Death by suicide
- John Glascock (Jethro Tull), Complications from heart surgery
- Pete Ham (Badfinger), Suicide by hanging
- Les Harvey (Stone The Crows), Death by electrocution
- Jimi Hendrix (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), Asphyxiated on his vomit after ingesting a heavy dose of barbiturates
- Robert Johnson, Alcohol poisoning
- Janis Joplin (Big Brother and The Holding Company), Heroin overdose
- Brian Jones (The Rolling Stones), Death by misadventure (Drowned in his own pool)
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead), Alcohol abuse
- Jim Morrison (The Doors), Heart failure due to acute respiratory distress
- Kristen Pfaff (Hole), Heroin overdose
- Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne), Plane crash
- Darren Robinson (The Fat Boys), Cardiac arrest
- Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (Canned Heat), Drug overdose
- Mia Zapata (The Gits), Strangulation
Did you just watch a VH-1 Special on this topic? (It was on last night.)
No.
I was talking to a friend of mine on the phone Saturday Night. He was telling me about some TV show he had watched (apparently that one) and the "Curse of 27". I decided that they were full of malarkey and so I set out to research some of the names he was giving me and see when they died. It's still malarkey :-) But with a shred of coincidence thrown in as well. I found plenty of musicians who were 28 or 26 when they died. I made the list to show to my friend to see if I had missed anybody.
C'mon, everyone knows Jim Morrison isn't really dead!! :-)