The 27 Club is the name of a group of musicians who died at the age of 27.
I mention this simply because of Amy Winehouse‘s death last weekend.
The members of the 27 Club currently are:
- Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones;
- Jimi Hendrix;
- Janis Joplin;
- Jim Morrison of The Doors;
- Kurt Cobain;
- Amy Winehouse.
However, it’s not age that these people have in common, it’s drug and alcohol abuse. Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool, Jimi Hendrix choked on his own vomit after drinking heavily whilst taking sleeping pills, Janis Joplin died of a “probable heroin overdose“, Jim Morrison’s death is registered as “heart failure” and Kurt Cobain committed suicide.
The list doesn’t end there, as this Wikipedia list shows.
Rehab, arguably Amy Winehouse’s most famous song, may have inevitably pointed to the day she died. Right now, the cause is unknown, but which of those people who have followed the ups and downs of her life didn’t see this coming?
Related articles:
- The 27 club: the musicians who played fast and died young (telegraph.co.uk)
- Amy Winehouse’s death gains her membership in the strange 27 Club (inquisitr.com)
- Amy Winehouse Becomes the Newest Member of the Forever 27 Club (newsfeed.time.com)
- Winehouse just latest musician to die at 27 (today.msnbc.msn.com)
