The Forever 27 Club
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Is it a curse? Or just coincidence?
Have you ever noticed that some of the most talented musical performers have died at age 27 either by suicide, drug abuse or tragic sudden death? Why 27? Enough people have noticed this trend and coined the term The 27 Club or The Forever 27 Club. You have to wonder if all these great musicians are all in Heaven having a jam session. This lens will cover a few of the many famous people who have died at age 27. Is it a curse? Or just coincidence? Or perhaps in some cases, deliberate.
Cobain and Hendrix biographer Charles R. Cross wrote: "The number of musicians who passed away at 27 is truly remarkable by any standard. Humans die regularly at all ages, there is a statistical spike for musicians who die at 27."
When Kurt Cobain died, his sister claimed that as a child he would talk about how he wanted to join the 27 Club.
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Cobain and Hendrix biographer Charles R. Cross wrote: "The number of musicians who passed away at 27 is truly remarkable by any standard. Humans die regularly at all ages, there is a statistical spike for musicians who die at 27."
When Kurt Cobain died, his sister claimed that as a child he would talk about how he wanted to join the 27 Club.
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Amy Winehouse
September 14, 1983 to July 23, 2011
Breaking news on July 23, 2011
According to a press release from the Metropolitan Police:
"Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased. On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead at the scene. Enquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained."
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Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison (8 December 1943 - 3 July 1971) was an American singer, poet, songwriter, writer, and film director. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors, and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history. He was also the author of several books of poetry, and the director of a documentary and short film.Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida, to future Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clarke Morrison. Morrison had a sister, Anne Robin, who was born in 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a brother, Andrew Lee Morrison, who was born 1948 in Los Altos, California. He was of Scottish and Irish ethnic heritage. He purportedly had an IQ of 149.
In 1947, Morrison, then four years old, purportedly witnessed a car accident in the desert, where a family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed. He referred to this incident in a spoken word performance on the song "Dawn's Highway" from the album An American Prayer, and again in the songs "Peace Frog" and "Ghost Song."
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind
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More 27 Club Members
Other notable Forever 27 Club Members include:
- Brian Jones - Rolling Stones lead guitarist. Drowned in a swimming pool on July 3, 1969.
- Les Harvey - Guitarist of Stone the Crows. Electrocuted by a microphone on May 2, 1972.
- Dave Alexandar - Bassist for the Stooges. Died of a pulmonary edema on February 10, 1975.
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - Keboardist of the Grateful Dead. Hemorrhaged to death due to alcoholim on March 8, 1973.
- Peter Ham - Keyboards and guitar, leader of Badfinger. Suicide by hanging on April 24, 1975.
- D. Boone - Guitarist and lead singer of the punk rock band, the Minutemen. Broken neck from a car accident and was ejected from the car on December 22, 1985.
- Pete de Freitas - Drummer for Echo & the Bunnymen. Motorcycle wreck on June 14, 1989.
- Kristen Pfaff - Bass guitar for the band Hole (Courtney Love).
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njchief6
Jan 17, 2012 @ 3:54 am | delete
- Great lens man! Two Thumbs Up!
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MusicFan57
Nov 11, 2011 @ 9:58 am | delete
- Morrison was the man. Nice lens. To jimm below on the comments, I think Robert Johnson was the first member of the 27 club, he died in 1938, coincidentally the same day/month Elvis died, August 16th.
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Nick
Jul 25, 2011 @ 4:10 pm | delete
- there's a lot of good points in this article on the 27 club as well... check it out! http://www.muzicnotez.com/magazine/2010/12/forever-27/
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John22s
Jul 23, 2011 @ 12:50 pm | delete
- Add Amy Winehouse. Sad. Slightly ironic. Not surprising.
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WhippetTalk
Jul 23, 2011 @ 1:02 pm | delete
- Wow. I guess it was just a matter of time. Thanks for the post.
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John22s
Jul 23, 2011 @ 1:14 pm | delete
- I'm a fan of Whippets, too!
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NanLT
Sep 9, 2010 @ 10:55 am | delete
- I wonder if there is a connection between the age and the Saturn Return in Astrology.
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jimm
Jul 6, 2010 @ 12:31 pm | delete
- what about robert johnson?
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Levitah
Feb 1, 2010 @ 9:10 pm | delete
- Awesome work!
Marking this as a favorite for sure, I'll be back!
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dagsmith
Sep 23, 2009 @ 9:35 pm | delete
- Fantastic. No Morbid. Well done lens. No Morbid. Maybe a bit of all that!
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