[Tokolosh]

Many musicians that died tragically or mysteriously.
Name the one's you know.

 

Chet Baker's turbulent life came to a bizarre and tragic end on May 13, 1988 in Amsterdam. Chet had taken heaps of drugs and fell from the open window of his hotel room, hitting the concrete two stories below.

[RdTv]

 

Johnny Thunders - not a mystery the bastard loved the drugs.

[porkmarras]

Not that you wouldn't tell by looking at that pothotograh.

[RdTv]

of course not, I think he was just acting anyways, no punks really did drugs....

[fishmonkey]

 

always fall asleep face down when very very drunk.

[Cantankerous]

 

[Hip Priest]

Billy Fury died aged 42.

 

Bedevilled by ill health and overtaken by changing musical fashions, Fury's final hit came in 1965 with 'Give Me Your Word'. The following year he left Decca for Parlophone, debuting with a Peter And Gordon song, 'Hurtin' Is Lovin'. Subsequent recordings included David Bowie's 'Silly Boy Blue', the Bee Gees' 'One Minute Woman' (both 1968) and Carole King's 'Why Are You Leaving' (1970), but the singer was unable to regain his erstwhile success. In 1971 he underwent open-heart surgery, but recovered to record 'Will The Real Man Stand Up' on his own Fury label, and played the part of 'Stormy Tempest' in the film That'll Be The Day (1973). A second major operation in 1976 forced Billy to retire again, but he re-emerged at the end of the decade with new recordings of his best-known songs, and several live and television appearances. In 1981 Fury struck a new deal with Polydor, but his health was rapidly deteriorating and on 28 January 1983 he succumbed to a fatal heart attack.

[sonicl]

Robert Quine

 

Depressed after the death of his wife Alice in August 2003, Quine committed suicide by heroin overdose in his New York home on May 31, 2004

[jon boy]

Originally Posted by Tokolosh

Many musicians that died tragically or mysteriously.
Name the one's you know.

 

Chet Baker's turbulent life came to a bizarre and tragic end on May 13, 1988 in Amsterdam. Chet had taken heaps of drugs and fell from the open window of his hotel room, hitting the concrete two stories below.

or did he? there is some mystery surrounding his death as he was a very bad man at times and was wanted by so many people.

[Tokolosh]

"Fell" sounds very dodgy indeed. Mysterious is more like it.

[porkmarras]

 

After leaving the Velvet Underground for good, Angus traveled around between North Africa, India, Greece, the Middle East and finally finding his place in Nepal. A student of both La Monte Young and Aleister Crowley (he was working a script for a film version of Crowley's Diary Of A Drug Fiend before he died), he would begin to blend Tibetan mysticism with his music to create magickal forms of transcendent sound through various drone techniques. He died of tuberculosis in Kathmandu in 1979

[Cantankerous]

 

[Cantankerous]

 

[porkmarras]

It was terry Jennings who died of malnutrition.

[Tokolosh]

Could you please put some info with your photo's Cuntankerous.
Not everyone know's as much as you do about dead rockstars.

[porkmarras]

 

Singer

Jayne was born as Wayne Rogers and grew up in Dallas, Georgia. She started with makeup and feminine clothes while still in his teens, in the mid-'60s.
Moving to New York City, Jayne established a niche on the hippie edge of the gay community - in the summer of 1969 Jayne both rioted at the Stonewall and went to Woodstock. While working menial day jobs, (e.g. Optical Clerk - American Optical Company - sacked for wearing make-up) she was soon sharing an apartment with Andy Warhol superstars Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn who had a great influence on her.
Jayne acted in stage productions like the Warhol's Pork and DJ'ed at Max's Kansas City on Park Avenue South , where she began performing with a rock band "Queen Elizabeth", in 1972.
She has recorded some unreleased tracks: Stick It In Me (1975), Rock 'N' Roll Enema (1975), I Need A Man (1975),and Putty, with Backstreet Boys.
Jayne's memoirs and insights into life as a transsexual and rock artist, is the book Man Enough To Be A Woman.

 

She wrote plays - World - Birth Of A Nation, Wank, U-Bahn To Memory Lane.
Transgender rock & roll (from "Deviation" Royalty CD 105, 1995) Man! I feel like a Woman

[porkmarras]

Info added above

[sonicl]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
7 May 1840 - 6 November 1893

 

Until recent years it had been generally assumed that Tchaikovsky died of cholera after drinking contaminated water. However, a controversial theory, published in 1980 by Aleksandra Orlova and based only on oral history, explains Tchaikovsky's death as a suicide.

In this account, Tchaikovsky committed suicide by consuming small doses of arsenic following an attempt to blackmail him over his homosexuality. His alleged death by cholera (whose symptoms have some similarity with arsenic poisoning) is supposed to have been a cover for this suicide. According to the theory, Tchaikovsky's own brother Modest Tchaikovsky, also homosexual, helped conspire to keep the secret. There are many circumstantial events that some say lend credence to the theory, such as wrong dates on the death certificate, conflicting testimony from Modest and the doctor about the timeline of his death, the fact that Tchaikovsky's funeral was open casket, and that the sheets from his deathbed were merely laundered instead of being burned. There are also passages in Rimsky-Korsakov's autobiography years later about how people at the funeral kissed Tchaikovsky on the face, even though he had died from cholera. These passages were deleted by Russian authorities from later editions of Rimsky-Korsakov's book.

The suicide theory is hotly disputed by others, including Alexander Poznansky, who argues that Tchaikovsky could easily have drunk tainted water because his class regarded cholera as a disease that afflicted only poor people, or because restaurants would mix cool boiled water with unboiled; that the circumstances of his death are entirely consistent with cholera; and that homosexuality ("gentlemanly games") was widely tolerated among the upper classes of Tsarist Russia. To this day, no one knows how Tchaikovsky truly died.

[jon boy]

 

[Cantankerous]

bon scott, AC/DC - choked on vomit, 19 feb 1980
brian jones, rolling stones - drowning, 3 jul 1969
keith moon, the who - overdose, 7 sep 1978