Club 27
Many people consider the number 27 to be unlucky. If this number "haunts" a person throughout the day (all the time it catches your eye on the clock, TV screen, signs, etc.), then he should expect trouble.
For many famous musicians in this release, the number 27 has definitely become fatal - there is even the infamous "Club 27". The impetus for the creation of this club was the death of Jones, Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison. All these famous musicians died at the age of 27, and all of them died one after another within 10 months. Two years later, on the day of Morrison's death, the backing vocalist of the rock band The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, also died. Almost all members of the 27 Club died either under strange or unexplained circumstances.
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1. Kurt Cobain - the lead singer and songwriter of Nirvana - committed suicide on April 5, 1994.
2. In the last years of his life, Kurt Cobain suffered from heroin addiction, depression and numerous illnesses. He was even burdened by his own fame and stage image. A few days before the suicide, Kurt was hospitalized with a severe overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills.
3. Official sources reported that the death of Kurt Cobain was the result of a gunshot to the head from a gun. But many believe that it was not suicide, but simply murder.
4. Amy Winehouse - one of the leading British singers, who had a rare voice - was found dead in her London home on July 23, 2011.
5. Emmy Winehouse struggled with her alcohol and drug addiction for several years. There are many speculations about the cause of her death. Among these assumptions are both claims that death was the result of drug and alcohol abuse, and suggestions that the singer was killed by too sharp a refusal from all this.
6. Jimi Hendrix, recognized as the greatest guitarist in the history of rock music, died on September 18, 1970. Hendrix was openly called a genius during his lifetime.
7. The death of Jimi Hendrix was not too difficult for himself, but truly terrible for those around him - he died in his sleep, choking on his own vomit caused by an overdose of sleeping pills.
8. Janis Joplin is considered one of the greatest vocalists in the history of rock music and the best white blues singer.
9. Unfortunately, in addition to her outstanding talent, Janis Joplin was also known for her addiction to drugs.
10. Janis Joplin died while working on her next album. Death occurred on October 4, 1970, believed to be from a heroin overdose.
11. Jim Morrison is the leader and vocalist of The Doors. He is still considered one of the brightest and most charismatic performers of rock music. In the Rolling Stones magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, he is ranked 47th.
12. The band's name "The Doors" was influenced by the book "The Doors of Perception" by the English writer Aldous Huxley, in which he described his experience of using mescaline to expand the boundaries of perception.
13. Expanding the boundaries of perception in this way brought with it the opposite effect. Jim Morrison's health and appearance began to deteriorate very quickly. On July 3, 1971, the great poet and musician was found dead in his own bathroom. It is believed that death was due to a heart attack, although no autopsy was performed.
14. Brian Jones is the genius founder of The Rolling Stones. He was also one of the first to join the sad 27 Club.
15. When the figures of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards began to noticeably obscure his own, tension gradually began to grow in the group, which ended with Brian Jones finally breaking off relations with The Rolling Stones in 1969. After this gap, he did not live even a month.
16. Jones drowned in the swimming pool, which was located in his home on the estate in Hartfield on July 3, 1969. His girlfriend Anna Wolin even claimed that when Jones was pulled out of the water, he still had a pulse, but it was not possible to save the musician . After the death of Jones, many valuable things disappeared from his house, so a version appeared that Jones was killed by one of the builders who worked on the restoration of the estate.
17. Ron McKernan (pictured right) is the keyboardist for the Grateful Dead. He also died at the age of 27. Death occurred on March 3, 1973 as a result of gastrointestinal bleeding, which developed due to prolonged alcohol abuse.