often drug-related. A quintessential 27 Club member is Janis Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970. Her music was enough to gain her lasting fame, but her lifestyle and early death cemented her legend as a musician who tragically died too young — not even re...
Life on the road, with all its perils and temptations, coupled with a tendency among some young people to both “push the envelope” and believe they are indestructible, has meant that we have lost too many musicians at a tragically early age. But it is jazz musicians who have perhaps suf...
with Geffen to Asylum records, and Meisner recorded on the band’s first five albums, contributing bass, high harmonies, songs, and lead vocals, most notably on “One of These Nights.” Meisner left the Eagles (to be replaced by Timothy B. Schmit, the same bassist who replaced him in Po...
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Rebecca Ferguson, who competed alongside One Direction on the X Factor and came in second place, pushed against the "exploitation and profiteering of young stars" in the wake of Liam's loss. Liam is survived by his seven-year-old son Bear, ...
After princess of R&BAaliyahdied tragically in a plane crash in the Bahamas on August 25, 2001 at 22 after filming the music video for "Rock the Boat,"I Care 4 U, a collection of previously-released album cuts and previously unreleased tracks and demos recorded between 1993 ...
a young co-worker crankily observed that he was stuck working with a bunch of old ladies who had never done anything but work for the government. Shirley said this wasn’t the case. She had been on television, played the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. He apologized. And...
Despite the singer’s numerous attempts to regain control, she tragically lost her life on February 11, 2012. Related: Whitney Houston’s First TV Appearance Will Give You Chills 9. Bobby Brown Image from Shutterstock. Bobby Brown, the man pointed out as the catalyst for Whitney Houston’s ...
“At least the first 40 songs we wrote were Buddy Holly-influenced” Paul McCartney once said). He tragically met his end in a 1959 plane crash at the tender age of 22, immortalized by Don McLean as “The Day the Music Died.” Who knows how much more timeless music he would have ...
Like a being from another planet flung tragically towards this Earth, this bizarre performance art and music legend still serves as a guardian angel to the true weirdos of the art world. Nomi’s legacy will always (for better or worse) be associated with that of David Bowie, who he sang ...