Why you don’t hear much from Minnie Ripperton, Stiv Bators, Nico, Paul Butterfield…
…because they are all dead. I know this because I just scanned the exhaustive list of dead recording artists at RockandRollBadBoy.
I was shocked at how young some of them were when they died or how I had completely missed, or forgot, when others (like Wendy O. Williams who killed herself in 98) did their final encore.
Update (from Popbitch):
Drowning is a particular favourite of pop stars.
Brian Jones, in his swimming pool; Jeff
Buckley went for a swim wearing steel-toed
boots while singing along to a radio
playing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”;
Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, got drunk and
dived into the sea at Marina Del Rey to
retrieve items he had once thrown off his yacht.
And…
The first week of February spells danger for
pop stars. Richie from Manic Street Preachers
vanished on 1st February 1995. Sid Vicious
overdosed on 2nd February 1979. Buddy Holly,
Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died
in a plane crash in Iowa on 3rd February
1959 and Karen Carpenter died of heart failure
brought on by anorexia on 4th February 1983.
h/t: BH
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August 15th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Thanks for the link
I didn’t realize that Rory Gallagher was dead. Damn!
August 15th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
That one surprised me too.