People who died at 27. Janis Joplin
Many people consider the number 27 to be unlucky. If this number “haunts” a person throughout the day (it catches the eye all the time on the clock, TV screen, signs, etc.), then he should expect trouble.
For many famous musicians in this release, the number 27 has definitely become fatal - there is even the infamous "Club 27". The impetus for the creation of this club was the death of Jones, Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison. All these famous musicians died at the age of 27, and all of them died one after another within 10 months. Two years later, on the day of Morrison's death, the backing vocalist of the rock band The Rolling stone s Brian Jones. Almost all members of the 27 Club died either under strange or unexplained circumstances.
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1. Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and songwriter of Nirvana, committed suicide on April 5, 1994.
2. In last years Throughout his life, Kurt Cobain suffered from heroin addiction, depression, and numerous illnesses. He was even burdened by his own fame and stage image. A few days before the suicide, Kurt was hospitalized with a severe overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills.
3. Official sources reported that the death of Kurt Cobain was the result of a gunshot to the head from a gun. But many believe that it was not suicide, but simply murder.
4. Amy Winehouse - one of the leading British singers, who had a rare voice - was found dead in her London home on July 23, 2011.
5. Emmy Winehouse struggled with her alcohol and drug addiction for several years. There are many speculations about the cause of her death. Among these assumptions are both claims that death was the result of drug and alcohol abuse, and suggestions that the singer was killed by too sharp a refusal from all this.
6. Jimi Hendrix, recognized as the best guitarist in the history of rock music, died on September 18, 1970. Hendrix was openly called a genius during his lifetime.
7. The death of Jimi Hendrix was not too difficult for himself, but truly terrible for those around him - he died in his sleep, choking on his own vomit caused by an overdose of sleeping pills.
8. Janis Joplin is considered one of the greatest vocalists in the history of rock music and the best white blues singer.
9. Unfortunately, in addition to her outstanding talent, Janis Joplin was also known for her addiction to drugs.
10. Janis Joplin died while working on her next album. Death occurred on October 4, 1970, believed to be from a heroin overdose.
11. Jim Morrison is the leader and vocalist of The Doors. He is still considered one of the brightest and most charismatic performers of rock music. In the list "100 the greatest singers of all time" according to the magazine "Rolling Stones" he takes 47th place.
12. The name of the group "The Doors" (Doors) arose under the influence of the book English writer Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, in which he described his experience of using mescaline to expand the boundaries of perception.
13. Expanding the boundaries of perception in this way brought with it the opposite effect. Health and appearance Jim Morrison began to collapse very quickly. July 3, 1971 great poet and the musician was found dead in his own bathroom. It is believed that death was due to a heart attack, although no autopsy was performed.
14. Brian Jones - the genius founder of the group " The Rolling Stones. He was also one of the first to join the sad 27 Club.
15. When the figures of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards began to noticeably obscure his own, tension gradually began to grow in the group, which ended with Brian Jones finally breaking off relations with The Rolling Stones in 1969. After this break, he did not live even a month.
16. Jones drowned in the swimming pool, which was located in his home on the estate in Hartfield on July 3, 1969. His girlfriend Anna Wolin even claimed that when Jones was pulled out of the water, he still had a pulse, but it was not possible to save the musician . After the death of Jones, many valuable things disappeared from his house, so a version appeared that Jones was killed by one of the builders who worked on the restoration of the estate.
17. Ron McKernan (pictured right) is the keyboardist for the Grateful Dead. He also died at the age of 27. Death occurred on March 3, 1973 as a result of gastrointestinal bleeding, which developed due to prolonged alcohol abuse.
1911 — 1938
The first member of the club is bluesman Robert Johnson, one of the most famous blues musicians of the last century. They joked about Johnson that he sold his soul to the devil for the ability to play the blues, and the musician grinned and did not deny it. Johnson died on August 16, 1938 under strange circumstances. Official version says that the musician was shot by the husband of one of his mistresses.
Brian Jones
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1942 — 1969
Many years later, the founder of The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, joined the first member of the then-defunct club. A month after breaking up with the group, on July 3, 1969, Jones, who by that time had severely undermined his physical and moral health with alcohol and drugs, drowned in his own pool.
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Jimi Hendrix
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1942 — 1970
After the death of Jimi Hendrix on September 18, 1970, fans started talking about the 27 Club. The musician choked on vomiting after an overdose of sleeping pills, which was mixed with previously taken amphetamine. Jimi's girlfriend Monica Charlotte Daneman was afraid to call an ambulance for Hendrix because of the drugs that were everywhere in the hotel room. The girl called the doctors only when Hendrix lost consciousness.
Janis Joplin
1943 — 1970
Before the fans had time to move away from the death of Jimi Hendrix, less than a month later, on October 4, 1970, the queen of rock and roll, Janis Joplin, died of a drug overdose. The absence of drugs in the hotel room and in the singer's personal belongings led the police to think about the deliberate murder of Joplin. They also talked about suicide.
Jim Morrison
1943 — 1971
Less than a year later, Jim Morrison, frontman of The Doors, joined the infamous club and died in Paris on July 3, 1971. The official version of death is a heart attack, but this is a conditional diagnosis that only intensifies the mystery around Morrison's death. There are a lot of assumptions around the death of the musician: an overdose of heroin, suicide, a staged suicide by the FBI, which was actively fighting the hippie movement. Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson was next to the musician at the time of his death, but she did not say a word about the incident and led a reclusive life, and three years later she died herself from an overdose.
Kurt Cobain
1967 — 1994
The next member of Club 27 joined the society many years later. April 5, 1994 leader of the group Nirvana Kurt Cobain shot himself in the mouth with a shotgun. At the time of his death, the musician was under the influence of heroin. Cobain's body lay in an empty house for three days.
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Chekov, Dmitry
Musician, member of the duet MS Vspyshkin & Nikiforovna. Death occurred in 2011 at the age of 27.
In 2009
Dyka, Joby
Australian cyclist, track world champion. Death occurred in 2009 at the age of 27.
In 2008
Putsykin, Alexey Viktorovich
Senior Lieutenant Armed Forces Russian Federation, participant in the Chechen conflict and the conflict in South Ossetia, Hero of the Russian Federation. Death occurred in 2008 at the age of 27.
In 2007
Ponomarchuk, Alexander
Russian classical guitarist, laureate of international and all-Russian competitions, member of the Quattro-mandolino collective. Death occurred in 2007 at the age of 27.
In 2006
Hunter, Paul
English snooker player; crayfish. Death occurred in 2006 at the age of 27.
Becerra, Elson
Former Colombian footballer, striker; killed (shot). Death occurred in 2006 at the age of 27.
In 2002
Turbina, Nika Georgievna
Russian poetess. Death occurred in 2002 at the age of 27.
In 2000
Zavadsky, Dmitry Alexandrovich
Journalist, cameraman, personal cameraman of Alexander Lukashenko in 1994-1997; abducted in Minsk and killed. Death occurred in 2000 at the age of 27.
In 1999
Gorenko, Anna
Russian-speaking Israeli poetess; heroin overdose. Death occurred in 1999 at the age of 27.
In 1998
Gurtyak, Dmitry Alexandrovich
Donetsk programmer. Death occurred in 1998 at the age of 27.
In 1997
Starkov, Edward
Rock musician, poet, leader and vocalist of the St. Petersburg underground group Chimera, member and one of the founders of the Last Tanks in Paris group. Death occurred in 1997 at the age of 27.
In 1996
Nikulin, Viktor Mikhailovich
Correspondent. Death occurred in 1996 at the age of 27.
In 1994
Kholodov, Dmitry Yurievich
Russian journalist; murder. Death occurred in 1994 at the age of 27.
Escobar, Andres
Colombian footballer; murder. Death occurred in 1994 at the age of 27.
Pfaff, Kristen
American bass player best known for her work with Hole. Death occurred in 1994 at the age of 27.
In 1993
Chumychkin, Igor Vasilievich
Rock musician, guitarist, member of the Alisa group; suicide. Death occurred in 1993 at the age of 27.
In 1991
Mikhailovsky, Nikita Viktorovich
Soviet actor; leukemia. Death occurred in 1991 at the age of 27.
In 1988
Bashlachev, Alexander Nikolaevich
Russian poet, musician. Death occurred in 1988 at the age of 27.
In 1977
Price, Tom
British race car driver, participant in the Formula 1 World Championships; died at the South African Grand Prix. Death occurred in 1977 at the age of 27.
In 1971
Morrison, Jim
American poet, rock musician, leader of The Doors; drug overdose. Death occurred in 1971 at the age of 27.
In 1970
Joplin, Janis
American singer, considered one of the greatest vocalists in the history of rock music; the circumstances of death have not been fully elucidated. Death occurred in 1970 at the age of 27.
Hendrix, Jimi
American guitarist, rock musician, one of the greatest guitarists peace; choked on vomit due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Death occurred in 1970 at the age of 27.
Arguello, Patricio
Nicaraguan revolutionary internationalist, participant in the first political hijacking of an aircraft in order to draw attention to the problem of Palestine; killed in an El Al plane over France. Death occurred in 1970 at the age of 27.
In 1969
Nefedova, Doris
Famous German singer, star of German chanson. Death occurred in 1969 at the age of 27.
Jones, Brian
Founder, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist 4 July Mikhail Khergiani is a Soviet mountaineer. Death occurred in 1969 at the age of 27.
In 1962
Chigirin, Julius Fyodorovich
A Soviet railway engineer who, at the cost of his own life, saved two women from death. Death occurred in 1962 at the age of 27.
In 1952
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1952 at the age of 27.
In 1950
Klyuev, Petr Nikolaevich
Aviation Captain, Hero of the Soviet Union; plane crash. Death occurred in 1950 at the age of 27.
In 1948
Nikolaenko, Ivan Dementievich
Staff Sergeant Soviet army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1948 at the age of 27.
In 1945
Likholetov, Pyotr Yakovlevich
Hero of the Soviet Union, squadron commander of the 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 275th Fighter Aviation Division of the 13th Air Army of the Leningrad Front, captain. Death occurred in 1945 at the age of 27.
Ustimenko, Stepan Yakovlevich
Sementsov, Mikhail I.
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1945 at the age of 27.
Avakyan, Gazaros Avetisovich
Soviet officer, participant in the Great Patriotic War, commander of a rifle platoon of the 1264th rifle regiment of the 380th rifle division of the 50th army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945), lieutenant. Death occurred in 1945 at the age of 27.
In 1944
Grishko, Pavel Savvovich
Lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War,
Sanfirova, Olga Alexandrovna
Squadron commander of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 325th Night Bomber Aviation Division of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Guard Captain, Hero of the Soviet Union. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Zubko, Peter Naumovich
Major of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Ivasik, Mikhail Adamovich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Akperov, Gazanfar Kulam
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Zhdanov, Alexei Mitrofanovich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Shibanov, Grigory Ivanovich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Gaidim, Ivan Yakovlevich
Member of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Katkov, Fedor Leontievich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Kasaev, Osman Musaevich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Lapin, Ivan Georgievich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
Kondrashin, Andrey Kuzmich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1944 at the age of 27.
In 1943
Barmin, Ilya Elizarovich
Soviet officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War, master tank battle, commander of the 3rd battalion of the 14th guards tank brigade of the 4th guards tank corps, Hero of the Soviet Union (1942). Death occurred in 1943 at the age of 27.
Bondar, Alexander Afanasyevich
Captain of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War,
Sytov, Ivan Nikitovich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1943 at the age of 27.
Yartsev, Pavel Petrovich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1943 at the age of 27.
Gulyaev, Dmitry Timofeevich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1943 at the age of 27.
Atsev, Mircea
Yugoslav Macedonian Partisan, folk hero Yugoslavia (posthumous) (1945), killed by Bulgarian policemen. Death occurred in 1943 at the age of 27.
In 1942
Emirov, Valentin Allahiyarovich
Captain of the Red Army, commander of the 926th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 219th Bomber Aviation Division of the 4th Air Army of the Transcaucasian Front, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). Death occurred in 1942 at the age of 27.
Bandera, Vasily Andreevich
Ukrainian public and political figure, the younger brother of Stepan Bandera. Death occurred in 1942 at the age of 27.
Aper, Ernest
Yugoslav Slovenian intelligence officer of Franco-German origin, participant in the People's Liberation War, People's Hero of Yugoslavia (posthumously). Death occurred in 1942 at the age of 27.
Blinov, Nikita Pavlovich
Soviet officer, participant in the Great Patriotic War, company commander of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). Death occurred in 1942 at the age of 27.
Oplesnin, Nikolai Vasilievich
Member of the Great Patriotic War, junior lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union. Death occurred in 1942 at the age of 27.
In 1941
Lavrinenko, Dmitry Fyodorovich
Soviet tank ace, senior lieutenant of the guard, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), the most productive tanker of the Red Army, died in battle. Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
Besednyak, Angel
Slovenian partisan, participant in the People's Liberation Struggle of Yugoslavia. Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
Seliverstov, Kuzma Egorovich
Member of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), flight commander of the 55th Fighter Aviation Regiment (20th Mixed Aviation Division, 9th Army, Southern Front), Lieutenant. Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
Hare, Denis Arkhipovich
Sergeant Major of the 257th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the 7th Army of the North-Western Front, Hero of the Soviet Union (1940). Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
Kunitsa, Semyon Andreevich
The hero of the USSR. Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
Doniy, Zakhar Afanasyevich
Participant Soviet-Finnish War, communications platoon commander of the 124th howitzer artillery regiment of the 7th Army of the North-Western Front, foreman. Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
Ogorzoff, Paul
German serial killer and rapist, executed Whorf, Benjamin Lee (44), American linguist, Native American language specialist and author of the so-called. Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
Quinones Gonzalez, Jose
Military pilot, national hero Peru. Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
Baykov, Semyon Grigorievich
Engineer platoon commander of the 50th separate motorized engineering battalion of the 1st mechanized corps of the 11th Army of the North-Western Front, junior lieutenant. Death occurred in 1941 at the age of 27.
In 1937
Vasiliev, Pavel Nikolaevich
Russian Soviet poet; shot. Death occurred in 1937 at the age of 27.
Antonich, Bogdan-Igor Vasilievich
Ukrainian poet, prose writer, translator, literary critic. Death occurred in 1937 at the age of 27.
In 1934
Sologub, Ales Feofilovich
Belarusian poet, representative of the direction of "prison lyrics" in Belarusian literature. Death occurred in 1934 at the age of 27.
In 1930
Tadevosyan, Maria Alexandrovna
Russian and Soviet silent film actress. Death occurred in 1930 at the age of 27.
In 1927
Ivan Savin
Russian poet, writer, journalist. Death occurred in 1927 at the age of 27.
In 1919
Mikhailichenko, Ignat Vasilievich
Writer and politician. Death occurred in 1919 at the age of 27.
Mishka Yaponchik
The famous Odessa raider. Death occurred in 1919 at the age of 27.
Ilmer, Karl Petrovich
Russian revolutionary of Latvian origin, Bolshevik, participant in the Civil War. Death occurred in 1919 at the age of 27.
In 1918
Weinbaum, Grigory Spiridonovich
Soviet statesman and party leader, authorized by the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Soviet Republic - RSFSR in Siberia (1917-1918), was shot. Death occurred in 1918 at the age of 27.
In 1915
Brooke, Rupert
English poet, known for his idealistic war sonnets written during World War I; sepsis. Death occurred in 1915 at the age of 27.
In 1914
Trakl, George
Outstanding Austrian poet; suicide. Death occurred in 1914 at the age of 27.
Macke, August
German expressionist painter. Death occurred in 1914 at the age of 27.
Nesterov, Pyotr Nikolaevich
Russian military pilot, staff captain, founder of aerobatics (Nesterov's loop); died in dogfight, for the first time in the practice of combat aviation using a ram. Death occurred in 1914 at the age of 27.
In 1905
Kalyaev, Ivan Platonovich
Russian revolutionary, terrorist, socialist-revolutionary, poet, murderer of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich; executed. Death occurred in 1905 at the age of 27.
In 1903
Ketskhoveli, Lado
Doer revolutionary movement in tsarist Russia, social democrat. Death occurred in 1903 at the age of 27.
In 1901
Taysou, Alfred
British athlete, two-time champion of the 1900 Summer Olympics. Death occurred in 1901 at 27 years old.
April 23, 2013, 11:33 amThe infamous "27 Club" (eng. 27 Club; the second name is "Forever 27") of world famous rock stars, which is "accepted" only posthumously. This so-called club includes the most talented musicians who have had a significant impact on the formation and development of rock and blues music. They contributed huge contribution into music, but this is not the only thing that unites them - they all died at the top of their popularity at the age of 27, often under strange, and sometimes completely mysterious and unexplained circumstances. These people were so young, but have already left behind an imperishable legacy of music and lyrics and millions of fans around the world. Personally, it's hard for me to think about what they would have achieved if they had lived a few more decades.
The history of Club 27 began in 1938. And the impetus for the “creation” of such a club was three deaths in a span of 10 months. These were Brian Jones - guitarist and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones (February 28, 1942), Jimi Hendrix - one of the best guitarists in the history of rock music (November 27, 1942), Janis Joplin - one of the greatest rock vocalists (January 19, 1943).
What is this? Tragic coincidence or some kind of absurd pattern? Why do people who are at the peak of fame leave us, and at such a young age? Where does this desire for self-destruction come from? Reading the biographies of musicians, I was surprised at how they simply burned themselves, burned their lives. What was the fire that burned them from the inside? The destructive power of their talent, which threw them from one extreme to another, the “curse of the number 27”, or the awareness of the imperfection of our world, which even their talent cannot change? And understanding this, with their sharpened creative perception, they preferred to leave this life in a slightly different way than ordinary people, so as not to see what was happening? Or realizing that the best songs they have already performed, and nothing better will be written and makes them leave this world? Maybe they can't handle the pressure of fame. Or is it a critical age of 27 that you need to step over, and they did not have the strength to take this step.
There are currently 48 musicians on this list. Club members are divided into two groups. The first group includes seven musicians who had worldwide fame and were incredibly popular. The first in the list of seven musicians was Robert Johnson. The list also includes Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Later, Brian Jones was included in the list, while Morrison and Jones died on the same day, but with a difference of two years. Then Kurt Cobain was included in the Club, who died in 1994, at the peak of his popularity. After the death in 2011 of the English singer Amy Winehouse also introduced her to the Club.
One of the most famous bluesmen of the 20th century. He had a powerful influence on the development of blues and rock, and became one of the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The official version is shot by the jealous husband of one of his mistresses. According to another version - poisoned by strychnine. There is a very curious fact in his biography. One fine day, the guy who couldn't play the guitar disappears, and after returning he becomes the best bluesman of his time. According to legend (and according to the musician himself), Johnson made a deal with the devil at the junction of 61 and 49 roads in the town of Clarksdale, but did not read the terms of the contract written in small letters, which is why the devil still continues to take the souls of the greatest 27 year old musicians.
In his most famous songs (Me and the devil blues, Hellhound on my trail, Crossroad blues) he directly mentions this intersection.
Founder of the oldest rock band in the world - "Rolling Stones", talented musician and Difficult person. Less than a month before the musician's death, his colleagues kicked him out of the band. Around midnight on July 3, 1969, Brian Jones was found at the bottom of a swimming pool on his estate in Hartfield. He went into the water for several minutes, and his girlfriend Anna Wolin, who was present at the house at the time of the incident, is convinced that Jones was alive when they got him out of the water, claiming that the musician had a pulse. Arriving doctors pronounced him dead. The conclusion of the examination is "death by negligence", it is also noted that the heart and liver of the deceased were deformed as a result of alcohol and drug abuse. There was also a version of suicide. In 1999, Anna Wolin stated that the musician was killed by a builder who, along with a companion, helped them restore the estate, Frank Thorogood, which the latter allegedly confessed to the Rolling Stones driver Tom Kaylock before his death, but there is no other evidence to prove this version.
Jimi Hendrix
According to the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist of all time. Jimi Hendrix was born in the USA but first gained his fame in the UK.
The night before his death, Hendrix ate a tuna sandwich, then took nine Vesperax sleeping pills that his girlfriend Monica Dannemann took, washed down the pills with red wine, and went to bed. According to Danneman, when she woke up on September 18, 1970, at approximately 10:20 am, Hendrix was lying on the bed, covered in vomit, and did not respond to her attempts to wake him up. After that, the girl called an ambulance. According to the official version, the cause of death was aspiration of vomit after barbiturate poisoning. Many years later, a police patrol report was made public with a very different version. The police did not find anyone in the hotel room except the deceased, the musician was fully clothed and "has been dead for some time." Then it is not clear why Monica Dannemann was allowed to make statements until her own death (also rather strange) in 1996. In 2009, one of the experts in the history of the music business said that Hendrix was killed by order of his manager, with whom he was going to terminate the contract. A doctor who examined the musician's body in 1970 agreed with the plausibility of this version. Again, it is not clear why he was silent for forty years.
Shortly before his death, in an interview given to the Swedish journalist Anna Bjoerndal, Jimi Hendrix remarked that he was unlikely to live to be 28 years old. "The moment I feel that I have nothing new to offer in music, I will cease to exist on this planet ... Except to have a wife and raise children? Otherwise, my life loses all meaning ... " Strictly speaking, at the time of his death, Hendrix was already 28 years old. But due to the exclusivity of his services to the world of music, he was nevertheless included in Club 27.
Jim Morrison.
The leader of one of the most famous rock bands of all time, The Doors, songwriter and sex symbol, Jim Morrison was the driving factor that elevated the group to a cult status. According to the official version, Jim Morrison died on July 3, 1971 in Paris from a heart attack, however, no one still knows the real cause of his death. Among the options were: a heroin overdose in the Parisian Rock-n-Roll Circus club, suicide, staging of suicide by the FBI services, which were then actively fighting members of the hippie movement, and so on. Rumors still circulate around his death. The only person who saw the singer's death was Morrison's girlfriend, Pamela Courson. But she took the secret of his death with her to the grave, as she died of a drug overdose three years later. The public about the death of the musician became aware after the funeral, which was very quiet and modest.
The circumstances of Morrison's death, as well as his hasty secret funeral, have given rise to a variety of conspiracy theories, from the fairly plausible to the downright delusional. Courson's explanations also caused confusion. At first, she said that after they watched movies and listened to music all night, she found the musician dead in the bath. Then, a person close to the members of The Doors said that after returning to the United States, Courson admitted that Morrison died from an overdose of heroin, which he began to inhale, confusing it with cocaine. According to another version, he died by choking on his own vomit. There is another theory that claims that the musician staged own death to be able to lead ordinary life normal person. In 2007, there was again talk of Morrison's death due to a heroin overdose. This time, the owner of a Parisian club said that the musician died while in his club, where he came to buy heroin for Courson. After that, drug dealers carried Morrison's body out of the club and put him in a bath in his own apartment.
Jim Morrison is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His grave has become a place of cult worship for fans who scribble on neighboring graves with inscriptions about their love for their idol and lines from The Doors songs.
Janis Joplin.
Date of birth - January 19, 1943, date of death - October 7 (according to other sources 4) October 1970. Joplin was also the most flamboyant woman in the music world of her time in the 1960s. She was ugly (one of the college students in which Janice studied for a very short time called her "the ugliest guy in college"), unloved at school and early on drugs and alcohol.
Janis Joplin rose to prominence in 1967 as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company. But in 1961, Joplin began to actively participate in the musical party in California, where she became addicted to heroin, and in subsequent years became addicted to strong alcohol. Before becoming a celebrity, Janice was a loser, burdened with many complexes associated primarily with her ordinary appearance. This turned her into a rude teenager, not parting with a can of beer. She was shunned by her peers, but among older people she made many friends. At the moment when Janice became famous, she led an unsuccessful struggle with her harmful addictions: alcohol, drugs, as well as a promiscuous sex life, as a result of which the singer contracted gonorrhea.
There are few details of her death. It is said that after listening to tracks for a new album joint with her third group "Full Tilt Boogie" she drank one or two servings of alcohol in the Hollywood club "Barney's Beanery" on Santa Monica Boulevard. Then she returned to the hotel and injected herself with heroin It takes much longer for the drug to enter the bloodstream than when injected into a vein. She was then seen in the hotel lobby, where she bought a pack of cigarettes. Presumably, this was after she injected herself with the drug. In the morning, Janis Joplin did not show up at Sunset Sound Studios, where the album was being worked on.After it became clear that she was not answering the phone, the band's producer Paul Rothschild, tormented by a bad feeling, sent one of the assistants to room 105 of the Landmark Hotel " in Los Angeles. Attempts to wake the guest by knocking on the door were unsuccessful. An employee was called with a service key. Janice lay between the bed and the night table in a short nightgown. Her lips were in blood. When the body was turned over, it turned out that her nose was broken. She was clutching the money in her fist - $4.50. According to experts, when the heroin took effect, she lost control of herself and fainted, hitting her head on the dressing table. The official version of the singer's death is acute morphine poisoning after a heroin overdose. The investigation revealed that the drug dealer had sold lethal doses of heroin to Joplin and other clients because the pharmacist who usually tested the product was out of town. Eight other people who bought heroin from the same dealer also died at the same time.
The album with the symbolic title Pearl ("Pearl") was released posthumously. The death of the 27-year-old rising star gave the release a sensational character. "Pearl" soared to the top of the American hit parade. last song, which Janice did not have time to record, was called "Buried Alive in the Blues."
Kurt Donald Cobain
Guitarist and vocalist of the cult band Nirvana, which opened a new direction of alternative music - "grunge" (which for a long time remained the mainstream of the musical world). Cobain is a classic example of a man who got too much too fast. Back in the mid-80s, he was unknown to anyone, and then he rapidly soared to the heights of fame. And he failed this test.
He tried to drown out his internal contradictions with alcohol and analgesics, which, as he claimed, he needed to treat and prevent stomach diseases. On April 8, 1994, an electrician found the musician's body in the guest room above the garage of his Washington Lake home, but experts determined that he had died much earlier, around April 5. A few days before his body was discovered, nothing was known about his whereabouts, and his wife Courtney Love had already contacted a private detective to look for the musician. All evidence points to Cobain committing suicide with a single shot to the head. But conspiracy theorists are convinced that the musician was murdered. However, no evidence was found pointing to murder. But there was a lot of undeniable evidence that Cobain was suicidal. As a child, he suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder, which developed into bipolar affective disorder in adolescence, and, as an adult musician, into depression. There were rumors that Cobain yearned to become a member of the infamous 27 Club and complained of severe stomach pain. He stated that instead of drugs he takes heroin, as this is the only remedy that keeps him from putting a bullet in his forehead. The police did not investigate the case in depth. It is known that at the time of suicide, Kurt was drugged with a horse dose of heroin.
Those. if Cobain had not shot himself with a gun before the drug took effect (less than a minute), he would not have been able to do it after. He would simply not be able to pull the trigger. No fingerprints were found on the gun either. By unofficial version Courtney Love is considered a suspect in Kurt's murder. Cobain left suicide note, written in red pen, in which he admitted that he no longer had passion and did not feel excited when he listened to and created music. "There is no more passion in me, so remember: it's better to burn out than fade away, peace, love, compassion. Kurt Cobain" - such were last words grunge rock icons. The musician's mother, hearing about his death, shrugged her shoulders: "Here you are - I became a member of this stupid club!"
Amy Winehouse
Chris Goodman, the singer's manager, told Us Magazine that Amy passed away alone in her bed. Her body was discovered by a security guard, Andrew Morris. Before her death, the singer said she wanted to rest and went to her room. And when the security guard entered to wake her up, the singer was no longer breathing. The Sun writes that death could have occurred about 6 hours ago before it was discovered. Moreover, according to the examination, no traces of drugs were found in the star’s apartment, moreover, the night before Amy, who suffered from alcohol and drug addiction, visited her doctor, who, after the examination, did not reveal that drugs or alcohol were present in the blood.
Nevertheless, many saw (probably there was a big queue) how Amy bought drugs before her death - ecstasy, cocaine and ketamine. The singer's family is reluctant to discuss the star's death with the tabloids. In an interview, Janice Winehouse (Amy's mom) admitted that she knew that her daughter's death was only a matter of time. And her father allegedly began preparing a eulogy a couple of years before the incident. The result of death was made public only after 4 months, it was alcohol intoxication. Amy's latest achievement was a song recorded with the great jazz singer Tony Bennet, who brought Amy her 6th Grammy award. The audience gave this victory a standing ovation…
The second group includes 42 musicians who were slightly less popular. Here are the names of some of them.
Richie Edwards- rhythm guitarist for the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers - is the only member of the 27 Club who may still be alive. During the group's heyday, Edwards was the group's most talented member and greatly influenced the formation of its style and the creation of many of its songs. And this despite the lack of deep musical knowledge or abilities. Edwards also brought the group to public attention when, after an argument with NME journalist Steve Lamacq, who questioned the group's authenticity, he carved the words 4REAL into his arm with a razor blade. In addition, the musician spoke openly that he was suffering from bouts of depression and mental disorders– at that time it was not customary to talk about such things.
During his tenure with the Manic Street Preachers, the band released their first three albums - Generation Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul and The Holy Bible - which were well received and helped make the band a name. But February 1, 1995 - the day he was supposed to fly to the United States for promotion album The Holy Bible, - Richie Edwards has disappeared. Two weeks later, his car was found at a service station near the bridge in Wales, the site of many suicides. So the version about the musician's suicide was born. His body was never found, and attempts to find the musician were made for many years. And only in 2008 the musician was declared dead.
Kristen Pfaff. June 16, 1994. Bass guitarist "Hole". A classically trained pianist and cellist, Kristen Pfaff took up the bass guitar in the early 1990s and formed the band Janitor Joe. Impressed by her performance, Hole members Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson approached Pfaff to work with them. She eventually agreed and moved to Seattle where she helped the band work on the Live Through This album. This album marked a turning point for Hole, but its release was marred by tragedy as Courtney Love's husband Kurt Cobain had committed suicide a few days earlier. Kristen Pfaff, who became a friend of Cobain, was shocked by his death and returned home to Minneapolis. She left Hole and was going to re-assemble Janitor Joe. Leaving Seattle, Pfaff was determined to give up drugs - during her stay in the Northwest, the girl developed heroin addiction. But two months after Cobain's death, Pfaff died of an accidental heroin overdose.
Chris Bell. December 27, 1978. Vocalist, songwriter and guitarist for Big Star. Car accident, drove into a telephone pole. The founder of the 1970s power pop rock band Big Star, Chris Bell never reached the heights of his career during his lifetime. He was the main driving force behind the release debut album band's #1 Record, which received rave reviews from music critics but did not commercial success. Bell soon left the band, apparently unwilling to be overshadowed by fellow Big Star lead singer and songwriter Alex Chilton, or depressed by the failure of the debut album. The group's second album, Radio City, also included several songs by Bell, who, however, decided to go solo.
But between leaving the group in 1972 and his death in 1978, he managed to release only two songs. One of them - I Am The Cosmo - became the title track of the musician's posthumous solo album, which was released in 1992, receiving the most enthusiastic responses. Bell suffered from depression and was addicted to drugs, but he died in an accident. It happened just at the moment when the musician expected new rise careers. The single for I Am The Cosmos had just been released and Bell was trying to put together new group. And at that moment he dies, crashing his car into a tree, losing control at high speed. It happened two days after Christmas, in 1978. Bell never waited for the release of his album and the recognition of his work with Big Star, a new generation of indie pop fans.
D Boon. December 22, 1985. Guitarist and vocalist for the punk band Minutemen. "Minutemen" cult group which had a significant impact on the world of music. And even after her breakup in 1985, she still had a lot of fans. With four full-length albums and several mini-albums, the band has embraced a variety of musical styles, combining extravagant funk with elements of jazz and punk rock that often uses the word, as well as elements of blues or a touch of country, which helped them create a completely unique form of alternative rock. (at that time this term was not yet commonplace). At the height of their popularity, the band released the epic 45-track double album Double Nickels On The Dime. To this day, it is considered one of the best albums of the 1980s. But with the death of guitarist Dee Boon came the end of glory.
In 1985, two days before Christmas, the band was returning from a concert tour, and Dee Boon, recuperating from illness, was riding in the back of a van, without a seat belt on. Suddenly, the van went off the road and an unbelted Dee Boon flew out of the car and broke his neck. Such was the sad end of the progressive and talented guitarist, who was later named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. His Minutemen bandmate Mike Watt still dedicates every new record to his friend De Boon.
Alexander Bashlachev. February 17, 1988. Soviet rock musician and poet. Fell out the window. Possibly suicide. On the morning of February 17, 1988, he fell out of a window on the eighth floor and died on the spot. The most likely version of death is suicide, however real reasons falls are not well established.
Pete da Freitas. June 14, 1989. Drummer for Echo & the Bunnymen. Crashed on a motorcycle, returning from the filming of the video.
Igor Chumychkin. April 12, 1993. Russian rock musician, lead guitarist of the Alisa group. He died on April 12, 1993, jumping out of the window of his Moscow apartment. There is no doubt that Chumychkin fell out of the window under the influence of drugs. For a long time he was in deep depression, caused by drug abuse, and, in the end, left the window of his apartment. Such a death is typical for a person who is in a state of drug intoxication. He said that he was not a kamikaze, but in the end he played just that role. Before his death, he wrote the last quatrain, leaving the paper on the table: "If I were Tsiolkovsky, I would build a big rocket, load it with black and white, leave at night, but return by dawn ...".
Jeremy Ward. May 25, 2003. Sound engineer for The Mars Volta and De Facto bands. Heroin overdose.
Jesse Belvin. February 6, 1960. R&B musician and songwriter. Died in a car accident.
Ellen Wilson. September 3, 1970. Leader, vocalist and composer of the Canned Heat group. Barbiturate overdose, possibly suicidal.
Leslie Harvey. May 2, 1972. Guitarist for Stone the Crows. Electric shock at his own concert.
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan. March 3, 1973. Original member and keyboardist for the Grateful Dead. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage caused by alcoholism.
David Alexander. February 10, 1975. Bassist for The Stooges. Pulmonary edema, was hospitalized for acute pancreatitis caused by alcoholism.
Peter Ham. April 24, 1975. Keyboardist, guitarist and founder of the Badfinger band. Suicide by hanging.
And if some consider the age of 27 fatal for rock musicians, others are sure that this is nothing but a myth, not a curse. If we analyze biographical information famous musicians over the past 100 years, it can be unequivocally concluded that they die at the age of 27 no more often than in any other. Yes, musicians die before “ordinary” people, and many of them do leave before they reach 40. There is a simple explanation for this "phenomenon": the life of rock musicians is accompanied by alcohol and drugs. To this can also be added a busy lifestyle, constant traveling, tours, emotional overload. Many musicians like to think that getting into drugs and alcohol is the result of overload. But the fact remains that the existence of "Club 27" is the result of a biased selection of random coincidences. And in fact, there is no "curse 27". In 2011, researchers at the Australian University of Technology attempted to question the 27 Club phenomenon based on a study statistical analysis. Having studied the information about the deaths of not only great or significant musicians for rock history, but also everyone who managed to get to the top of the British charts in the period from 1956 to 2007 (1046 names, both soloists and members of pop and rock -groups), they found that musicians die at the age of 27 no more often than in any other. In their sample, 71 people (7%) died. Although in general musicians die earlier ordinary people(often up to 40 years), the researchers called the existence of a special “club 27” the result of a biased selection of facts and random coincidences. However, scientists have also found some evidence of an increase in the number of deaths in the age cluster of 20-30-year-old musicians in the 1970s and early 1980s, and the mortality of young musicians of this age is 2-3 times higher than the mortality of the general population of Great Britain.
Every time young and talented people pass away (whether at 27 or 47), I think about how much more they could “create” in good sense this word. Write, execute. Perhaps these unwritten creations would illuminate our existence with you, and who knows, maybe they were the ones who could change this world?
"It's funny how much most people love the dead. Once you die, the living will take an interest in you. You have to die to think you're worth anything."
