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I could say every rock star death is different Phil (Buddy Holly died of wanting to get his shirts cleaned and pressed!) but we a comparing a very small group (rock star fatalities) with the American average.

Having said that two big factors shine through.

1) Amount of travel, stars have always done the road. If travel presents a risk then stars must have several times more exposure to it.

2) Heroin appears to present a performer with the answer to exhausting schedules. Shoot up and within a few minutes you have clarity, focus and nothing seems to be able to touch you. Stage fright is turned into icey cool. Of course plenty of musicians just got into heroin as part of a decadent scene but you'd be suprised how many first were given it by a manager, band mate, roadie. Same can apply to amphetamines.

<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_cool.gif" border=0 alt="Cool"> I do agree with you, BUT what I find so strange is especially the age, when they died.

My opinion is that especially at this age, 27 years old, is linked to the fact that they were suddenly very famous and it was really hard to become suddenly, so famous. I remeber me Keith RIFF Richards, told that they are very easy targets, knowing that they are like you said, always on the road, restless, thinking of the fact "do we have a good performance" + the easy access to those substances, like heroin, to be back to keith, he told that he is still alive, because he could afford it pure, not with other substances, to cut the heroin. But on the moment, I think when the album "goat's head soup" he was the numero uno on the deathlist, also Lou Reed was, and a few others. It is always easy to get that stuff, but more difficult to stop.

Here is a little morbid deceased rocker trivia quiz.  'Mama' Cass Elliot and who else both died in the same London apartment belonging to what creative musical genius who died broke a few years later because of unscrupulous management?

Excellent!  Yes, your prize is a fabulous all-expense-paid trip to your favorite room in your house to practice!  Seriously though - I'm glad you knew the answer.  An artist's music becomes even more interesting as you learn about their lives (and deaths) and times.

Howzabout this - where did Lynyrd Skynyrd play last before their plane crashed killing most of the group's members?

Well, if you offer me this, I would be very grateful (dead?) no, kidding. It is in fact fascinating, and I don't mean about planecrashes.
I am a MD and thanks to that fact I was backstage Doc for more than 15 years. The festival is considered as the biggest in Europe and I've seen it all, in the beginning you could realy speak about, it is a cliché, sex, drugs and rock & roll, but the more years passed, the accent is or was, because I stopped doing this job, since they spread the festival in 4 stages, main-, side- ...
I talked with a lot of artists, because they are just like us, asking if their performance was good. I even became very close with Dave Grohl, ex-nirwana, now Foo Fighters.
This the only thing I regret, he invited me to come to Seattle, gave me his address, phone, he was free in August and I did not go, I phoned him, but "my job" was more important then. Still it's painful, he is a hell of a person, and about Kurt... and MSS LOVE, he suggested very weird stuff, but acceptable

Dead Rock star the vast majority that died before the age of 40 usually was most times from lots of drugs and booze. After a while preforming some just burn out, and take drugs to cope with boredom, depression, aniexty. The groupies probadly get old after a while, and just having to dedicate half the day to make sure the sound quality on stage is good. After the show fans, girls, and other vices were too hard to resist for some of them.  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_cool.gif" border=0 alt="Cool"> I think good roadies, and crew members can make a band last or crash.

hey hey!

it's very likely that Robert Johnson, who influenced so many of rock & roll's "superstars" is also a member of the 27 club. there is some doubt as to the year of his birth, and cause of death, but by most accounts he died at age 27 from drinking poisoned whiskey.

peace, slim.

My feeling is thier like kids in a candy store, to much to fast.I to have seen the life's of regular folk destroyed by stupid behavior,and it is a vary hard and sad thing.As far as respect for their art,addiction can take control of a person's life.Without the right people around them to influrnce them,their addiction can control thier life's insted of them controlling it.                                   As far as Otis Redding's last performance.His plane stoped at Burk lakefront airport in Cleveland,Ohio to refuel. While he was there he performed one song [try a little tenderness], on a local t.v. show called upbeat. He then took off for his destiny.                              Get togeter was wrightin by Chet Powers aka Dino Valente or Jesse Oris Farrow. He also wrote Hay Joe.

Apparently the previous dead rock people trivia questin was just too obtuse (sorry).  The leaping figure skater in the photos is Monica Danneman.  The East German-born figure skating champion and artist was the last person to see Jimi Hendrix alive.  He died in her London flat under questionable circumstances.

Amen to that Bootlegger.

the majority of deaths though wee accidental.

hendrix drowned to death in his own vomit

marc bolan had a car crash

i think it's just coincidence that people like cobain, morrison, joplin, bolan and hendrix all went around the 27 mark. i think it's just down to the style of their lives - the drugs and the pressure

Hey firefly - guess I'll wave my Geezer Flag and admit that I am unfamiliar with Pantera . . . I'm sure they were quite notable, but I just never noticed them.  But I shall hazard a guess - - - was it some sort of Spandex-related incident?