K-Rock's Unlucky 13 Rock Star Causes of Death
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 Drugs, Suicide, Misadventure... Rock N' Roll is hazardous. This is how these poor bastards bought the farm...
13. Car accident
Mark Bolan (T-Rex); Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes (TLC); Harry Chapin (folk-singer, crashed on L.I.E.)
12. Choking to Death
Jimi Hendrix (On own vomit, after mixing alcohol and barbiturates); John Keith Moon (The Who, on own vomit, ditto); John Bonham (Led Zeppelin, on own vomit); NOTE that Mama Cass (The Mamas & the Papas, was found to have died in her sleep of a heart attack, and did not choke to death on a ham sandwich as was rumored. She did happen to die in the same London flat where Keith Moon would die some four years later.)
11. HIV / AIDS
Freddie Mercury (Queen); Eazy-E (NWA)
Ed. Note: We really don’t mean to make light of this. Freddie Mercury’s death was a tragic landmark event in a global epidemic. We remember him as the rock star he was.
10. Acute alcohol poisoning
Bon Scott (AC/DC); Steve Clark (Def Leppard, mixed with barbiturates)
9. Plane Crash
Ronnie Van Zandt (Lynyrd Skynyrd); Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, and Richie Valens all died in the same crash; Aaliyah; Stevie Ray Vaughan (Helicopter)
8. Auto-erotic asphyxiation
Michael Hutchence (INXS, coroner reported cause of death as a suicide, but family members – including his brother – point to circumstantial evidence that auto-erotic asphyxiation was a more likely cause)
7. Motorcycle accident
Duane Allman (Allman Brothers); Berry Oakley (Allman Brothers, thirteen months after Allman, at an intersection three blocks away); Gene Vincent (Rock n’ Roll pioneer, sang “Be-Bop-A-Lula”)
6. Tour Bus Accident
Cliff Burton (Metallica, tour bus skidded on black ice); Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne guitarist, airplane flew into his own tour bus); D. Boon (Minutemen, was driving tour van between gigs)
5. “Death By Misadventure”
Brian Jones (Rolling Stones, drowned in own pool, after taking toxic mix of booze and barbiturates, ruled “death by misadventure”); Jeff Buckley (singer- songwriter, drowned in Mississippi River)
4. Suicide
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana); Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols); Ian Curtis (Joy Division); Elliott Smith (singer-songwriter)
3. Shot to Death
John Lennon (The Beatles), Dimebag Darrel Abbott (Pantera), and Selena (Mexican singing sensation) were all shot by deranged fans; Marvin Gaye by his father; 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., Jam Master Jay (Run-DMC) in hip-hop beefs
2. Heroin Overdose
Layne Staley (Alice In Chains); Brad Nowell (Sublime); Hillel Slovak (Red Hot Chili Peppers); Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott (both Pretenders, OD’d ten months apart); Gram Parsons; Janis Joplin; Dee Dee Ramone (The Ramones); Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon); more.
...And the #1 Rock Star Cause of Death
1. Mysterious circumstances (Rumored to still be alive)
Jim Morrison (The Doors, Found in bathtub by girlfriend, no autopsy, rumored to be still alive); Elvis Presley (official cause of death: “heart attack,” known to be habitual drug user, rumored to still be alive)
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