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Post by neilcrud on Sept 16, 2007 2:10:18 GMT
Just been watching a Marc Bolan documentary...!
1. Marc Bolan - wrapped round a tree in the car driven by his girlfriend.
2. Sid Vicious - stabs his girlfriend to death, gets let out on bail, then overdoses on the heroin his Mum bought him..!
3. Kurt Cobain - blows his head off at home
4. John Enswistle (The Who) - heart attack after a night with 2 call girls and lots of cocaine
5. Keith Moon (The Who) - drink and drugs - took 32 pills and died
6. John Bonham (Led Zep) - choked on his own vomit - had 16 shots of vodka for breakfast and carried on drinking all day
7. Marvin Gaye - shot by his Dad
8. Michael Hutchence (INXS) - accidentally hanged himself on a hotel door autoerotic asphyxiation (strangling himself while masturbating)
9. Paul Jeffreys (Cockney Rebel) - on the Lockerbie bombed plane
10. Wendy o'Williams (Plasmatics) - shot herself in a forest
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Post by bloodandlipstick on Sept 16, 2007 18:25:51 GMT
1. Paul Revere - bedded the girlfriend of a Mafia hood who got his revenge by forcing the singer to ingest petrol.
2. Ronnie Van Zandt/Steve Gaines/Cassie Gaines (Lynyrd Skynyrd) - killed when their chartered plane crash-landed in a swamp. As a sick footnote, the survivors, all of whom were seriously injured, crawled their way to a nearby farmhouse where the farmer took several potshots at them with a shotgun, having mistaken them for escapees from a nearby prison.
3. Sam Cooke - Gunned down in a motel room by a girl who claimed that the soul singer was trying to rape her.
4. Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) - Found dead in his swimming pool - the official explanation of accidental drowning doesn't hold water (sorry, couldn't resist that one!!!) and at least one anonymous source has admitted to taking part in the guitarist's murder.
5. Elvis Presley - absolute proof that fast food is bad for you, kiddies!!!
6. John Lennon - absolute proof that some people will do anything to get dissed in a 4Q song!!!
7. Layne Staley (Alice In Chains) - OD'd on a speedball. The sad aspect of his situation was that nobody realised he was dead until his accountants noticed that money was no longer being drawn from his bank.
8. Screaming Lord Sutch - Hung himself from a banister in his home. In another grim footnote ( I admit I'm morbidly fascinated by this kind of thing!!!), his girlfriend let herself into his house, saw him strung up and took a photograph as she thought it was another of his practical jokes).
9. Billy Murcia (New York Dolls) - The drummer OD'd on heroin during the band's first visit to the UK and his friends decided that dumping him in a bath of cold water was preferable to calling 999.
10. Darby Crash (The Germs) - Decided to make a bid for punk martyrdom by fulfilling a suicide pact with his girlfriend (she survived, he didn't). Unfortunately the world failed to notice because Lennon was gunned down less than 24 hours later.
As a footnote to #2 on Neil's list - Spungen was actually murdered by a tuinal dealer and the heroin supplied to Vicious by his mum was dealt to her by the CIA - can we have a Top 10 Rock Star Conspiracy Theories?
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Post by 0 on Sept 16, 2007 19:24:27 GMT
'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott -1966-2004 Pantera guitarist Cause of Death: Shot dead by fan
Rick James - 1950-2004 Funky Dude Cause of Death: Enlarged heart, pneumonia, effects of multiple drugs
Elliot Smith - 1969-2003 Morose indie troubadour Cause of Death: Suicide by stabbing
Curtis Mayfield -1942-1999 Politicized soul pioneer, quadriplegic Cause of Death: Never verified, though years of poor health followed his paralysis after a 1990 onstage accident.
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes - 1971-2002 TLC firebrand Cause of Death: Car crash
Jam Master Jay -1965-2002 Run-D.M.C. turntablist Cause of Death: Murder - Shot
Chic Disco hit factory Causes of Death: Bernard Edwards (1952-1996): Pneumonia Tony Thompson (1954-2003): Cancer
Barry White -1944-2003 Walrus of Love Cause of Death: Kidney failure resulting from hypertension
Ian Curtis -1956–1980 Joy Division's voice from beyond Cause of Death: Hanged himself on a clothing rack
James Blunt - sorry, that's just wishful thinking
Janis Joplin - 1943–1970 Southern Comfort–soaked blues shouter Cause of Death: Heroin overdose
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Post by bloodandlipstick on Sept 17, 2007 8:51:18 GMT
Heh-heh!!! Following on from GD's James Blunt line, perhaps we should have a Top 10 Musicians We Wished Were Dead, including novel ways in which we could bump 'em off?
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Post by Matt on Sept 18, 2007 21:35:59 GMT
GG Allin: speedballed at a party, and other partygoers spent hours posing with a "passed out" naked Allin, not realising he was dead!
Jeff Buckley: should have been a stronger swimmer
cant think of any others
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Post by markwj on Sept 20, 2007 16:13:21 GMT
not much rock, not much stars, but still... Cliff Burton – legend bassist who set Metallica on road to success, flattened under their own tour bus Euronymous – Mayhem guitarist murdered by Burzum in Norwegian god bothering black metallers power play Mieszko Talarczyk - grindcore vocalist for Nasum wiped out in Asian tsunami Chuck Shuldiner – seminal death metal guitarist in Death, brain tumour He who cannot be named – guitarist for The Dwarves, stabbed to death. Except he wasn’t but the hoax went on for months Phil Lynott – the rumour at the time was it was from consuming a pint of LSD. The mind boggles, literally Dead – vocalist with Mayhem, suicide by shotgun to head to live up to his name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Black_HeartsGlenn Benton – front man of Deicide branded inverted cross onto his forehead and said he’d be dead by 33 like Jesus. Didn’t follow through Wayne Southworth – latter day vocalist with crust legends Doom, epileptic seizure Jon Nödtveidt – frontman for blackened deathsters Dissection, suicide in satanic rite (having served a term for previous murder)
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Post by iwan on Sept 24, 2007 1:24:33 GMT
Stiv Bators - became an authentic Dead Boy after being hit by a car in Paris on the way to meet his girlfriend,decided against medical attention & died later the same day to a blood clot around his heart
Bob Marley - died from a brain tumour that started out as cancer in his toe after a toenail was removed in a football match against journalists & refused to heal,Jah Bob could have survived had his toe been amputated but it was against his religious beliefs stating 'No scalpel shall crease my flesh',urban myth has it that the foul was committed by at the time NME journo Danny Baker.
Johnny Thunders - boring run of the mil heroin od
Malcolm Owen - ditto the Ruts singer who had been a junkie prior to being in the band & got clean only to get hooked again after his wife left him
Hugh Mundell - seminal roots reggae singer shot at the age of 23 in a car during a row over a fridge
Stuart Adamson - hang himself in Hawaii after realising Big Country wasn't a bad dream
Hank Williams - died from a mixture of alcohol & morphine in the back of a car whilst being driven around on tour,although was carried from his hotel room to the car due to being 'out of it' & pathologist concluded he was probably already dead before setting off on the journey
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Post by Duncan on Sept 24, 2007 21:20:15 GMT
I heard a story that the music composer Cornelius Cardew was run over by activists.
Apparently they were disguised as milkmen and ran over him in a milk-float.
I'd love it if that was true - it's just too weird. I'll look it up on wikipedia.
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Post by markwj on Oct 22, 2007 16:27:11 GMT
this weekend adding Paul Raven, busy bassist with Killing joke, prong and Godflesh, heart attack in his 40's
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Post by neilcrud on Oct 22, 2007 17:06:05 GMT
Yes - was a bit of a shock - saw him with Killing Joke 3 times in 2006, met him at the Liverpool show (I think) - very amiable and down to earth guy. And saw him last in a casino in Vegas and later that night playing for Ministry.
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Post by Matt on Oct 22, 2007 22:10:15 GMT
ahhh thats abit of shitty news. he was sound to us at Liverpools 2006 gig, i think it was him who got us in after the set to meet Jaz and the rest of the band, very odd atmoosphere backstage, or maybe it was just us in awe, off our fuckin cakes on summin or other back then.
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Post by damien6040 on Oct 23, 2007 4:01:26 GMT
not a rock star but keith moon running his chaffuer over in his bentley always makes me smile!
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Post by damien6040 on Oct 23, 2007 4:03:30 GMT
freddie mercury aids aids aids
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Post by damien6040 on Oct 23, 2007 4:04:01 GMT
feeder drummer, hangin from the rafters!
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