From Paint it Black to Riders of the Storm, Heart-shaped Box and Tears Dry On Their Own Nostalgic colored playlist of the cursed Club 27 - a club of great talents who died unfortunate deaths at the tender age of 27.
Club 27 or the club of musicians who died at twenty-seven began to "form" between 1969 and 1971, when Brian Jones, Alan Wilson, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison died. Despite the great loss of musical talents in just two short years, the "27 Club" only started to be talked about after the death of Kurt Cobain more than two decades later. Rumors about him revived again in 2011 with the death of Amy Winehouse, who, at the age of twenty-four, said that she was afraid of being granted membership in the cursed club. Read how some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century died while listening to the pieces of these famous talents, for whom we can still say nothing more than that it was simply a pity that they were so young.
1. Brian Jones, founder of the band the Rolling Stones
Age: 27 years and 125 days
Cause of death: Drowning (probably due to alcohol and drug abuse). Jones was found at the bottom of his pool at Cotchford Farm in Sussex on the night of 2/3 July 1969. His Swedish girlfriend, Anna Wohlin, found him.
2. Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix Photo: Okayplayer.comDied: September 18, 1970
Age: 27 years and 295 days
Cause of death: Suffocation in sleep by own vomit due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Hendrix spent his last night at London's Samarkand Hotel with his girlfriend Monika Dannemann, a German figure skater and painter.
3. Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin. Photo: NypostDied: October 4, 1970
Age: 27 years and 258 days
Cause of death: Heroin overdose combined with alcohol at the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood. That same week, several more clients of Janis's drug dealer died of overdoses because the heroin was much stronger than it should have been.
4. Jim Morrison, singer of The Doors
Jim Morrison Photo: NypostDied: 3/7/1971
Age: 27 years and 207 days
Cause of death: Morrison spent the last days of his life with his girlfriend Pamela Courson in Paris, who found him dead in the bathtub of their apartment. The official cause of death was given as cardiac arrest, but since an official autopsy was never performed, the true cause remains a matter of speculation to this day.
5. Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana
Kurt Cobain. Photo: Mtv.comDied: April 5, 1994
Age: 27 years and 44 days
Cause of death: Suicide. Cobain shot himself in his home on Lake Washington Blvd in Seattle, where he was found by an electrician. Also found with Cobain was a farewell letter addressed to his imaginary childhood friend, Boddah, in which he wrote that he hadn't felt any excitement in listening or making music for years.
6. Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse's house in Camden, where she died Photo: ldnfashion.comDied: July 23, 2011
Age: 27 years and 312 days
Cause of death: Alcohol poisoning. Amy died at her home in Camden, London, with her bodyguard by her side. On the night of her death, she was listening to music and watching TV while drinking, and had been drinking for several days in a row prior to that. She fell asleep in the early hours of the morning - and never woke up again.
