musicians who died too young
July 20th, 2020 at 5:19:44 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | 17 Richie Valens 22 Buddy Holly 28 The Big Bopper 23 Selena 25 Tupac Shakur 26 Otis Redding 27 Janis Joplin 27 Jimmie Hendrix 27 Kurt Cobain 27 Amy Winehouse 30 Hank Williams 32 Cass Elliot 32 Karen Carpenter 42 Elvis Presley 40 John Lennon 45 Freddie Mercury 48 Whitney Houston 50 Michael Jackson 52 Roy Orbison Murders, drug overdoses, suicide, AIDS, alcohol, heart attacks, or accidents took away these singers too soon. Do you grieve for some or all of them? Does it matter if they were the cause of their own demise. |
July 20th, 2020 at 5:34:14 PM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4942 | No grieving for me. I would probably only know songs from Elvis, John Lennon, and Whitney Houston. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
July 20th, 2020 at 5:48:39 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 | Some of these were 50 or over, not exactly "young." I do not grieve for people I never knew. I might feel sad they are gone. But I am not one of these types who make it as if a close person died. It seems to me any kind of creative person often has some kind of bad wiring. As if one cause the other. The President is a fink. |
July 20th, 2020 at 6:34:48 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | I don't grieve for people I don't know, but some I'm sad for, like Selena, John Lennon and Richie Valens, who died for reasons that were not their fault. Cases of self-abuse like Elvis and Michael Jackson I can't have much sympathy for. I didn't know Elvis was only 42 when it died, he looked much older. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
July 20th, 2020 at 6:49:38 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
I grieve for all of them They may have had some more masterpieces to give to the world. Now they are lost. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
July 20th, 2020 at 9:42:11 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I was going to cut it off at age 50, but Michael Jackson and Roy Orbison were two of the 20th century greatest musicians. I wasn't sure how many rappers to put on the list, so I just went with Tupac. There are literally dozens of rappers who died before the age of 50. (age 25) Tupac Shakur - shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. (age 20) Pop Smoke shot and killed in a home invasion. (age 24) The Notorious B.I.G - killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles (age 27) Stretch Queens New York murdered in a drive-by shooting (age 37) Jason Mizell - shot by an unknown assailant in the Jamaica area of New York City (age 36) Ol’ Dirty Bastard -died of a drugs overdose in Brooklyn, New York City. (age 26) Joe C. An official cause of death was never released. (age 31) Eazy-E - died from complications associated with AIDS. (age 20) Lisa ‘Left-Eye’ Lopes - Swerved to avoid a truck and then again to avoid an oncoming car. The car rolled repeatedly (age 41) Nate Dogg -In the years prior to his death, he had suffered several strokes. (age 47) Adam Yauch -cancerous parotid gland and lymph node (age 32) Prodigy - Sickle-cell anemia just days before his death and the coroner reported that he had died from accidental choking. |
July 20th, 2020 at 10:24:12 PM permalink | |
RonC Member since: Nov 7, 2012 Threads: 8 Posts: 2452 | 30--Jim Croce (airplane crash) 29--Ronnie Van Zandt and other members of Lynryd Skynyrd (airplane crash) These are a couple that I remember from my youth...not really mourning, a little shock, but missing what else they (and many others on the list) may have contributed musically. Selena is still a pretty big deal here in Texas...she comes up every year or so in discussions, tributes, etc. |
July 21st, 2020 at 2:26:09 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Karen carpenter died of an infection. Dideree Doo players rarely die young due to avoidance of cheyenes stokes breathing. |
July 21st, 2020 at 4:31:28 AM permalink | |
Tanko Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 1964 | Peter Ham (27) of Badfinger - Wrote “Baby Blue”. Co-wrote “Without You” Tom Evans (36) of Badfinger - Co- wrote “Without You” Both suicide by hanging. |
July 21st, 2020 at 6:57:24 AM permalink | |
flebner37 Member since: Jun 29, 2020 Threads: 0 Posts: 5 | 30 Patsy Cline |