artie_fufkin wrote:
...I was surprised Brian Jones died at 27. Has there ever been an older-looking 27-year-old?
Benjamin Button is the only one who comes to mind.
Yeah, I never realized Jones snuffed it at 27 either, although it certainly makes chronological sense.
The threesome usually cited are Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison, maybe due to proximity. But I was surprised Brian Jones died at 27. Has there ever been an older-looking 27-year-old?
Wikipedia's article on Club 27 adds a lengthy list of lesser lights, into which she is a fine fargin' fit, furthering the phenomenon.
Max wrote:
JV wrote:
That 27 Club thing is freaky, huh?
what's the 27 club? other rockers who died at 27 as a guess?
Jim Morrison
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Robert Johnson
Kurt Cobain
Brian Jones
Pigpen McKernan
I'm not sure Amy Winehouse's body of work puts her in the same realm as the other people on that list, but it's a notable coincidence.
JV wrote:
That 27 Club thing is freaky, huh?
what's the 27 club? other rockers who died at 27 as a guess?
Before yesterday, I could say the same. I checked out a couple of her other songs and was impressed by the way she sang and that she wrote her own stuff... that is, before she got too fucked up to work.
The only song of her I remember is unsusrisingly titled "rehab".
JV wrote:
Double rec, especially with Stevie being before your time and all that.
Amy Winehouse showed real talent. I'm hardly surprised at this, but it is kind of sad that, as public as her problem was, it couldn't be fixed.
That 27 Club thing is freaky, huh?
I know nothing about Amy Winehouse other than what I've read about her struggles with substance abuse, but Denis Leary once said one of the great mysteries of the universe is how interesting people seem to die too soon, while Bret Michaels can survive a game of hopscotch in a mine field.
Double rec, especially with Stevie being before your time and all that.
Amy Winehouse showed real talent. I'm hardly surprised at this, but it is kind of sad that, as public as her problem was, it couldn't be fixed.
That 27 Club thing is freaky, huh?
APRTW wrote:
forsberg_us wrote:
Who could have seen that coming???
Stevie Wonder?
Rec
forsberg_us wrote:
Who could have seen that coming???
Stevie Wonder?
Who could have seen that coming???