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A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
by Howard Sounes
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A history of the "27 Club" (music stars who died at 27), examining its six most iconic members.
Imagine a club that people are dying to get into-- literally! Sounes examines the lives of six musicians and singers who died at the age of 27, plus other music industry figures who died at that age, to discover what-- apart from coincidence-- this phenomenon signifies. He discovers a common story of excess, madness, and self-destruction.
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Rock musicians, Tod, Death, Rockmusiker, Singers, Biography, Death and burial, Musicians, biographyPeople
Jim Morrison (1943-1971), Jimi Hendrix, Kurt / 1967-1994 Cobain, Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), Brian / 1942-1969 Jones, Brian Jones (1942-1969), Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), Janis Joplin, Amy / 1983-2011 Winehouse, Janis Joplin (1943-1970), Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970), Jim / 1943-1971 MorrisonPlaces
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27: A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
2013, Da Capo Press
Hardcover
in English
- First Da Capo Press Edition
0306821680 9780306821684
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. “Now he's gone and joined that stupid club,” she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. “I told him not to….” Kurt's mom was referring to the extraordinary roll call of iconic stars who died at the same young age. The Big Six are Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison of the Doors, Kurt Cobain and, now, Amy Winehouse. All were talented. All were dissipated. All were 27.
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