Rock Star Deaths

Rock music has become one of the most beloved and at the same time most reviled music in popular culture’s history. Along with millions of dedicated fans, this brand of music has had numerous tragedies associated with it. Many rock-stars have become so admired in the wild lifestyle of being a musician that they subject to drugs, and alcohol. Some famous musicians who have not even touched any illegal narcotics or even alcohol have still died in part because of their fame. Many believe there is a curse put on rock and roll music due to the amount of people who have died. This is a list of some who have died due to the rock and roll lifestyle and what their cause of death was:

Randy Rhoads – plane crash

Jim Morrison – drug overdose

Keith Moon – drug overdose

John Denver – plane crash

Freddie Mercury – AIDs

John Entwistle – drug overdose

John Bonham – alcohol-related death

Janis Joplin – drug overdose

Jerry Garcia – drug overdose

Rory Gallagher – complications of surgery

Stevie Ray Vaughan – plane crash

Jim Hendrix – drug overdose

Kurt Cobain – gunshot wound

Dimebag Darrell – killed by gunman

Cliff Burton – bus accident

REST IN PEACE

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  1. Josh
    November 17th, 2009 at 22:52 | #1

    Hendrix died from OD not alcohol

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