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The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians, [2][3][4][5][6] often expanded by artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age 27. Although the claim of a "statistical spike" for the death of musicians at that age has been refuted by scientific research, it remains a common cultural conception that the ...
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age. Rock music developed from the rock and roll music that emerged during ...
Death of Jimi Hendrix. On September 18, 1970, American musician Jimi Hendrix died in London at the age of 27. One of the 1960s' most influential guitarists, he was described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music." [1] In the days before his death, Hendrix had been in poor health ...
Kensington, London, England. Asphyxiation on vomit after consuming an unhealthy amount of barbiturates [6] Janis Joplin. Big Brother and the Holding Company. 27. October 4, 1970. Los Angeles, California, U.S. Heroin overdose [7] Baby Huey.
Also, recently, it seems like more rock stars are dying from cancer than from overdoses. In the first half of this decade, 89 rock stars have died as a result of cancer, surpassing the 79 cancer ...
978-0-615-18964-2. The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll is a 2008 book about the 27 Club, authored by Eric Segalstad and illustrated by Josh Hunter. Structured as a non-fiction narrative, it tells the history of rock & roll as seen through the lives and legacies of 34 musicians [1] who all died at the age of 27. [2]
Jones's death at 27 was the first of the 1960s rock phenomenon of music artists dying at 27. His death was followed within two years by the drug-related deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Alan Wilson, and Janis Joplin, all of the same age. The coincidence of their deaths at the same age has been referred to in popular culture as the "27 Club".
Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was an American musician who was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits.After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was murdered in 1993 while on her way home from a music venue, at age 27. [2]