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Despite the club's original association with the deaths of popular musicians, later sources began to link actors, artists, athletes, and other celebrities to the 27 Club. Rolling Stone included television actor Jonathan Brandis , who died by suicide in 2003, in a list of 27 Club members. [ 44 ]
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 ...
The 27 Club graffiti is a mural in Tel Aviv, Israel, painted by John Kiss with the assistance of Itai Froumin and Roman Kozhokin. [1] The work depicts, from left to right, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, and an unknown figure believed to depict Kiss.
27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-82169-1. Stanton, Scott (2003). The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-743-46330-0. Trager, Oliver (1997). The American Book of the Dead. Simon and Schuster.
An adviser to President-elect Trump's campaign, Alex Bruesewitz, passed out and collapsed as he was speaking onstage during a New York Young Republican Club gala Sunday night. Bruesewitz, 27, was ...
The 27 Club Graffiti. Kiss' next work, in 2014, depicted seven artists from the "27 Club". [20] Veering away from some of his previous work, Kiss began obsessively researching famous artists who died early, particularly the "27 Club", and began sketching portraits of them.
According to rock and roll lore, age twenty-seven is a fateful milestone laced with tragic deaths, the 27 Club including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Brian Jones, all shooting stars who were felled in their prime by drugs and fame.