As most people know by now, incredibly talented singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment over the weekend. She joins an unfortunate club of singers who led troubled lives, some who struggled with drugs, and died at age 27.
The so-called "27s" is part of the title of a book published a few years ago that examines the deaths of many of these young musicians and the tragic number they have in common.
Considered the greatest electric guitarist of all time and an icon of his generation, Jimi Hendrix died in London in 1970 at age 27. He was well known for boozing and drugs, though according to the London Telegraph, the autopsy on him found that he died due to choking on his own vomit but there was little alcohol in his system.
Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose at the same age in the same year. Jim Morrison, at age 27, died in 1971. He would be considered a pioneer not just for his music but poetry.
An earlier guitar great, a man regarded as the one of the best blues performers of all time, Robert Johnson died in 1938 at 27. It's unclear how he died but reports have circled that a lover poisoned him.
The Rolling Stones founder and guitarist Brian Jones died at 27 of what a coroner reportedly termed "misadventure" in 1969. He was a musician with many talents, playing the harmonica, sitar and marimba. Jones left the band shortly before his death. He was replaced by Mick Taylor.
Kurt Cobain died at 27 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Seattle, Washington, in 1994. The frontman for the hit making, grunge-generation defining Nirvana is the stuff of legend.
In 1995, Freaky Tah of the emerging rap group The Lost Boyz passed away at 27. He was shot in the head as he left a party in New York.
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Freaky Tah? Really? First of all, getting caught in the crossfire at a gang party hardly qualifies. Shame he (she?) died, hate to hear unfortunate news, but to include a nobody gangsta (just assuming...) rapper in with the pantheon of greats, problems maybe but still greats, just shows how shallow and liberal CNN truly is...stop pandering
We need more dead rappers.
I concur sir !!
add country music to that list
Kurt was murdered.
agreed Suzy
Yep, Courtney solicited "Il Duce" (Eldon Hoke) from the Mentors to kill him, he refused, and she never forgot. He told Drew Gallagher that story and turned up dead a few days later... Everybody in the seattle music scene knows that, some people were even at the party when it happened.
The biggest shame of all is that it wasnt Bono from U2 that died.
If we are lucky the entire group "boyz 2 men" will get wiped out in a drive-by.
40 years after their deaths, Hendrix, Morrison, and Joplin are still remembered even by some youngsters. 40 years from now, I doubt it will be the same case for Winehouse.
Amy Winehouse had talent?
Horaces mother Getz food stamps for her services
Ouch!!!!!!!!!
not just musicians- Basquiat died of a heroin overdose at 27.
toilet water is cleaner then a dogs mouth and people let them lick there faces!
Myself, the Kennedys and MLK await Amys arrival in Hell.
Hell has internet?
Arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics. Even if you win you're still retarted.
Ya, and you should know.
+1 all the dead beats are home trolling
The writer left out one. Robert Johnson, the "King of Delta Blues," died in 1938 at age 27.
Errrrr.... ummmmm... methinks someone didn't read the article?
No they didn't. "An earlier guitar great, a man regarded as the one of the best blues performers of all time, Robert Johnson died in 1938 at 27"
Amy Winehouse was a flash in the pan. She had a short-lived career and did not have the mass appeal that Hendrix and other members of the 27 Club did. She was a great singer but threw it all away.
Incredibly talented singer Amy Winehouse ? This where I stopped reading this article.
This is what happens when you doosh with drano.
Really???? Well, that's the only link Winehouse has to those talented artists. She was a complete zero in every way.
That zero sold alot more records than you. So what does that make you?