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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 white lighter myth or white lighter curse is an urban legend based on the 27 Club in which it is claimed several musicians and artists died while in possession of a white disposable cigarette lighter, leading such items to become associated with bad fortune. [1][2] The myth is primarily based on the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim ...
The 27 Club is an urban legend that popular musicians and other celebrated artists die at age 27 with statistically anomalous frequency, notably Darin Webster, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Mia Zapata, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Amy Winehouse. The claim of a "statistical spike" for the death of musicians at that age has ...
This effect was sparked by a historical fluke: a cluster of deaths of 27-year-old musicians within a two-year period. ... The Club 27 myth may seem trivial, but in the age of Wikipedia, it is ...
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] It was independently published, and ...
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1961–1972. Labels. Warner Bros. Records. Formerly of. Grateful Dead. Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. The Warlocks. Ronald Charles McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973), known as Pigpen, was an American musician. He was a founding member of the San Francisco band the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972.
A champion rower has died while free-diving. According to a GoFundMe page, shared last week, 27-year-old Austin Regier died in the Philippines on November 14, 2024. "He was swimming with new ...