10 Famous Members Of The 27 Club

9. Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin died from an accidental heroin overdose back in 1970. Her road manager believes that the heroin that she took on the night of her death was much more potent than it usually was, as several of her dealer’s other customers had also accidentally overdosed that same week.

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8. Alan Wilson

Alan Wilson – guitarist for Canned Heat – was found dead behind his band mate Bob Hite’s Topanga Canyon’s house in 1970. Cause of death was ruled an accidental overdose of barbiturates, although it has sometimes been reported as a suicide because he had suffered from depression and had reportedly attempted suicide a few months prior to his death.

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7. Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 from drug-related complications. He had been drinking when he reportedly took nine Vesparax sleeping tablets, which was 18 times the recommended dosage. His death was ruled an accident.

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6. Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison is believed to have died of heart failure or a heroin overdose. His common-law partner, Pamela Courson, found him in their Paris apartment’s bathtub. No autopsy was performed because French officials found no evidence of foul play. As a result, there are endless conspiracy theories about his death.

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5. Ronald McKernan

Ronald McKernan was one of the members of the Grateful Dead. He was a big fan of alcohol, which he began drinking when he was just an adolescent. He died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage, which was caused by his alcoholism, in 1974.

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4. Pete Ham

Pete Ham was the guitarist for the ‘70s rock group, Badfinger. When the band became embroiled in internal, financial and managerial problems, their music ended up taking the backseat. In 1975, when their salaries stopped coming in and their manager was incommunicado, Ham saw suicide as the only option. He hanged himself in his garage and left a note expressing his frustration with his manager.

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3. Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain struggled with heroin addiction and depression. He had tried to kill himself in Rome, Italy, in March 1994, but Courtney Love was able to get him help in time. A month later, he successfully committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. To this day, many fans are convinced that it was murder, not suicide, and that Love was involved.

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2. Kristen Pfaff

Kristen Pfaff was one of the mourners at Kurt Cobain’s memorial and the bassist in the band Hole. Just a couple months after Cobain died, she was found dead in her apartment, surrounded by syringes and drug paraphernalia. Her death was attributed to acute opiate intoxication.

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1. Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. Before she died from accidental alcohol poisoning, many believed that she had already kicked the habit and was on her way to making a comeback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse Source: Wikipedia