Rock, drugs, death: 7 musicians who committed suicide
Chester Bennington died in Los Angeles. He was 41 years old. The musician committed suicide. They say that he was very upset by the death of his close friend Chris Cornell, who killed himself for a couple of months. In this review, we remember rock musicians who passed away of their own free will.
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison was named one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine. Women went crazy for him. His popularity grew at an incredible pace, and with it the heroin addiction of the musician.
Jim was fond of mysticism and drugs in his youth, often fell into depression and naturally became a member of the "Club 27" - rock musicians who, under various circumstances, left for another world at the age of 27. And it is worth saying that there are many of them.
Ian Curtis
Ian Curtis was said to be "a gloomy and depressive type and an infinitely talented musician." It was his mesmerizing drama that brought the Joy Division to a wave of popularity in 1980. But unexpectedly for everyone, Ian Curtis decided to commit suicide.
He found a clothesline at home and put on an Iggy Pop record. The musician's body was found by his wife.
Kurt Cobain knew all the hardships of life since childhood. With a waitress mother who did not take care of her son, but constantly arranged her personal life, he lived in a trailer. And already in his youth he was constantly depressed. Trying to find a way out of his depressed state, he became addicted to heroin and left for a better world at the zenith of fame.
On April 8, 1994, his body was found by an electrician who came to install an alarm in Cobain's house. He saw through the glass door the body of the musician, a pool of blood and a gun.
The suicide of Chris Cornell is one of the most inexplicable and mysterious. His body was found on May 18, 2017 in the bathroom of a hotel in Detroit. And just a few hours before that, he presented his joint performance with the band Soundgarden.
And according to friends and relatives, he never complained about life.
Brad Delp
Boston's self-titled album became one of the most commercially successful debuts in the history of rock music. It has sold over 17 million copies. The second was a little less successful, the third disc was taken on the radio with a creak, although then it still "shot". And then the rockers from Boston were heard less and less by the fans. The hard worker and musician Brad Delp had a hard time with creative failures, and at the age of 55 he took his own life. The body with traces of intentional carbon monoxide poisoning was discovered by the rocker's fiancee.
Tommy March is a member of the popular band The Killers and a talented saxophonist. He took his own life when he was 33 years old. He used every opportunity to make money - as a musician, he collaborated with Big Friendly Corporation and Black Camaro. As a businessman, he worked as a marketing manager for the Hard Rock network in Las Vegas. I slept little, worked hard, burned out ...
"Quiet Genius" Mark Linkus created a rock band that, after his death, journalists of influential music publications recognize as one of the most underestimated. Trying to break into the world charts, Sparklehorse seemed to have remained at the level of worthy cover artists, but nothing more. Having already experienced clinical death once from an overdose of antidepressants, Linkus was very worried about his position "on the sidelines."
In 2010, he was found in an apartment with a bullet in his head.