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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 in the 2000s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
[71] [nb 17] Teare gave the cause of death as: "Inhalation of vomit due to barbiturate intoxication." [69] He did not attempt to determine Hendrix's time of death. [73] [nb 18] Thurston began an inquest on September 23, and on September 28 he concluded that Hendrix had aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with ...
Johnny Edward Jenkins (March 5, 1939 – June 26, 2006) [1] [2] was an American left-handed blues guitarist, who helped launch the career of Otis Redding. [2] His flamboyant style of guitar playing also influenced Jimi Hendrix .
Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment, [ 16 ] [ 17 ] but, according to Hendrix and Kurt Cobain 's biographer, Charles R. Cross : "It wasn't until Kurt Cobain took his own life in 1994 that the idea of the 27 Club arrived ...
The music world and fans are mourning the death of Jimi Jamison. The lead singer of the 1980s rock band Survivor passed away on August 31st of a heart attack at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. He ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Hendrix's paternal grandparents, Ross and Nora Hendrix, pre-1912. Hendrix was of African-American and alleged Cherokee descent. [nb 1] His paternal grandfather, Bertran Philander Ross Hendrix, was born in 1866 from an extramarital affair between a woman named Fanny and a grain merchant from either Urbana, Ohio or Illinois, one of the wealthiest men in the area at that time.
Jason Jenkins, the Dolphins senior vice president of communications and community affairs, was announced to have died during halftime of the team's preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles ...