The tragic death of singer Amy Winehouse follows a peculiar pattern of premature demises by wildly talented, but troubled pop and rock stars.
And, when I heard that she was only 27, something shook in me.
That is the exact age that at least five other rock superstars died: Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and the incomparable Jimi Hendrix.
In fact, four of the aforementioned singers all perished within two years of each other:
Hendrix died on September 18, 1970 in his London flat, allegedly due to a drug overdose, although rumors have run wild for decades that Jimi was actually murdered.
In the prior year, Brian Jones, one of the founders of the Rolling Stones super-group, was found dead in the bottom of his swimming pool outside his house in the south of England. His death was initially declared a suicide, but years later it was revealed that he was murdered by a handyman who worked in his pool. More...
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