Everyone on this list will never turn 28 — they will be forever Janis Joplin, the legendary singer-songwriter who started with the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company and would later go on to perform as a solo act with her own backing groups, died of an assumed heroin overdose on October 4, The OD, influenced by alcohol and what is thought to be a particularly potent batch of heroin that incited several other overdoses, felled the singer in her Hollywood house.
Though an official police report depicts Doors frontman as having died in a bathtub of a heroin overdose, myriad other versions of the singer's death exist, including accounts that he accidentally snorted some of girlfriend Pamela Courson's heroin- having mistaken it for cocaine- and died from this accidental ingestion. One of the original founders of The Rolling Stones, frontman Brian Jones was quickly overshadowed by the team of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger and subsequently developed a drug problem that would lead to his dismissal from the group in June Less than a month later on July 3, Jones was found in the bottom of his pool and his death was entered as a drowning "death by misadventure".
Fat Pat was an influential rapper from Houston, and a member of Screwed Up Click, which included his brother, Big Hawk, and friend DJ Screw, who invented the chopped and screwed technique. He was murdered in He was rushed to the hospital in a state of cardiac arrest, but was pronounced dead at the hospital. One of the most famous missing people of all time , Richey Edwards, writer and guitar player for the Manic Street Preachers, went missing of February 1, , the day he was meant to leave the UK for America on a promotional tour.
While sightings of the musician were reported for years to follow, Edwards has yet to be found and was declared legally dead on November 23, On January 19, , Fredo Santana died of a fatal seizure at his Los Angeles home, most likely due to the liver and kidney problems caused by his heavy use of lean. A founding member of The Grateful Dead, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan contributed on harmonica, percussion, organ, vocals, and guitar until congenital biliary cirrhosis prompted doctors to recommend McKernan stop touring in August Drummer for the Japanese rock band Malice Mizer, Kami died in of a subarachnoid hemorrhage in his sleep.
Diego Farias, former guitarist of the American progressive metalcore band Volumes, has died at 27, according to a February 6 tweet from his brother and ex-Volumes unclean vocalist, Gus Farias.
His untimely death comes shortly after the Farias brothers' departures from the group; Diego announced his split from Volumes on January 29, just over a month after his brother's exodus. At press time, Farias' cause of death has not been publicly disclosed. Check the list of 27 Club "members" below.
Kurt Cobain. Controversy still swirls around the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain who, on April 8, , was found dead in his Lake Washington home by an electrician. The coroner's report estimated Cobain's time of death to be around April 5 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. She died of a heroin overdose in October , less than three weeks after the death of fellow rock icon Jimi Hendrix. A poet and avid reader of philosophy, Jim Morrison rose to prominence as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors, a band he founded with a friend in By , his drinking had become a problem, making him late for performances and fueling raucous onstage behavior.
In July , Morrison died of a heart attack apparently caused by a heroin overdose while living in Paris. It is thought that he mistook the drug for cocaine and snorted a fatal amount. However, his heavy drinking caused him to develop cirrhosis in , and by his health had become so fragile he could no longer tour.
He died of an internal hemorrhage in March Ham worked with the Beatles after the group signed to their Apple label. Ham died just days before he would have turned 28 on April 27, Keep scrolling to begin. Home News. Rockers Who Died at Age Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Jacob Shamsian. A lot of celebrities seem to die at the age of 27, a trend that's been dubbed the "27 Club. Nonetheless, the number sticks in the popular imagination.
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