Strange Deaths

[scooterb]

The music industry is renown for being hit with sudden and strange deaths.

The weirdest I know of is the drummer from T-Rex, Steve Peregin Took, who choked on a cherry in a cocktail.

 

[Power King]

Tupac Shakur, John Lennon, Curt Cobain, Notorious BIG can all be added to the list.

 

[emperor]

Spinal Tap drummers

 

[Hot Spenny]

Tupac Shakur, John Lennon, Curt Cobain, Notorious BIG can all be added to the list.

Not really 'strange'

 

[SunKing]

John Lennon's death while tragic was hardly strange. The guy who did it was strange though.

Marc Bolan in that there was a rumour he sold his soul for fame and was to die before his 30th birthday.

Didn't Mama Cass choke on something or is that a rumour?

 

[Bomber32]

Didn't Mama Cass choke on something or is that a rumour?

The urban legend is that Mama Cass choked to death on a ham sandwich which was found in her room. In actual fact, the autopsy found she died of a heart attack in her sleep.

 

[iDon]

Michael Hutchence hands down, anyone who dies choking getting a kick while stroking the monkey has to be the strangest.

 

[Spermbird]

The urban legend is that Mama Cass choked to death on a ham sandwich which was found in her room. In actual fact, the autopsy found she died of a heart attack in her sleep.

Dead by sandwhich is so much more interesting than a heart attack, as then you can say:

If only Karen Carpenter had of eaten that sandwhich she may have lived too

 

[Roobunny]

Jeff Porcaro - the drummer in Toto - died from a heart attack after an allergic reaction to pesticide he was using in his garden.

 

[Carlos]

Jeff Porcaro - the drummer in Toto - died from a heart attack after an allergic reaction to pesticide he was using in his garden.

Thats what they wanted us to believe anyway.

The fact that on a daily basis he snorted more cocaine than on a West Coast Eagles end of season trip might have had a bit to do with it also...

 

[johnnyhoward]

Michael Hutchence hands down, anyone who dies choking getting a kick while stroking the monkey has to be the strangest.

Apparently his parents were happier to accept the 'suicide' verdict rather than the truth. I think his brother came out recently saying he wanted to set the matter straight

 

[krisholio14]

Jeff Porcaro - the drummer in Toto - died from a heart attack after an allergic reaction to pesticide he was using in his garden.

When they looked at his heart in the autopsy the muscles hard hardened, a sure sign that the guy had spent a fair bit of time sampling Colombias finest.

 

[krisholio14]

A couple of other ones...

Keith Relf from the Yardbirds was electrocuted at home while tuning an electric guitar.

Les Harvey from Stone the Crows was electrocuted on stage by a live microphone.

 

[Roobunny]

Thats what they wanted us to believe anyway.

The fact that on a daily basis he snorted more cocaine than on a West Coast Eagles end of season trip might have had a bit to do with it also...

No doubt at all. They found cocaine in his blood (a small amount) I think in his autopsy?

You'd think that as a rockstar death from drug use has a tad more street cred than killed by fertiliser...

 

[wally funk]

drugs are bad, m'kay

 

[NSWCROW]

Dead by sandwhich is so much more interesting than a heart attack, as then you can say:

If only Karen Carpenter had of eaten that sandwhich she may have lived too

As old as the hills

 

[-VC-]

Jeff Buckley taking a dip in the water but forgot to take his boots off and drowned.

Is that how it actually goes? Or is that just the official line we are to believe?

 

[Corrosion]

Jeff Buckley taking a dip in the water but forgot to take his boots off and drowned.

Is that how it actually goes? Or is that just the official line we are to believe?

Yeah, he did have Boots on, but he drowned because of the strong under-current of a passing Tugboat.

 

[raskolnikov]

It's strange how many musicians have been killed in aviation crashes:

Ronnie Van Zant
Buddy Holly
Richie Valens
Stevie Ray Vaughan
John Denver
Keith Green
Aaliyah
Buddy Clark
Glenn Miller
Shirley Strachan
Jim Reeves
Otis Redding
Ricky Nelson

 

[Bomber32]

It's strange how many musicians have been killed in aviation crashes:

Ronnie Van Zant
Buddy Holly
Richie Valens
Stevie Ray Vaughan
John Denver
Keith Green
Aaliyah
Buddy Clark
Glenn Miller
Shirley Strachan
Jim Reeves
Otis Redding
Ricky Nelson

You can add Jim Croce to that list too. One of my very favourite musicians.

 

[krisholio14]

It's strange how many musicians have been killed in aviation crashes:

Ronnie Van Zant
Buddy Holly
Richie Valens
Stevie Ray Vaughan
John Denver
Keith Green
Aaliyah
Buddy Clark
Glenn Miller
Shirley Strachan
Jim Reeves
Otis Redding
Ricky Nelson

You can add Jim Croce to that list too. One of my very favourite musicians.

You can add Randy Rhodes and Patsy Cline to that list as well.

 

[scooterb]

The end of Lynard Skynard.

 

[The_Eagles]

Freddie Mercury - AIDS
Dimebag Darrell - shot 5 times in the head on stage in Ohio
Cliff Burton - Crushed by his tour bus after he fell out the window when it rolled

 

[krisholio14]

Freddie Mercury - AIDS
Dimebag Darrell - shot 5 times in the head on stage in Ohio
Cliff Burton - Crushed by his tour bus after he fell out the window when it rolled

I don't think that one was strange. Look at his pink jump suit in the Bohemian Rhapsody clip. If you couldn't tell he was a switch hitter from that, and a whole lot of other instances after 1975, you're naive or blind lol.

 

[The_Eagles]

yeah. aids is still strange imo unless you're african or papua new guinean. although I remember always hearing about it in primary school re: ****s and unsafe sex