janis joplin
brian jones
jim morrison
jim hendrix
and

amy winehouse

[www.forever27.co.uk]

How old was Kurt Cobain,even he shot himself but i think it was drug related?

the first one to leave was Brian, then, some kind of malediction started up.
if god exists, come on mate, it's time to explain your strange behaviour with your creatures.

It feels a little bit disrespectful to speculate on these things now. Can't we at least wait till after the funeral?

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marko
How old was Kurt Cobain,even he shot himself but i think it was drug related?

yes you're right, he was 27 too !

Well here's another goodbye to another good friend

It's terrible when anyone that age dies. Famous or not.

27? na-na-na-na-nineteen

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janis joplin
brian jones
jim morrison
jim hendrix
and

amy winehouse

And, Robert Johnson, but he was not rock.

Neither was Amy...



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backofmyhand
janis joplin
brian jones
jim morrison
jim hendrix
and

amy winehouse

Who are these people on that list - compared to the founding member of that club?
=> ROBERT JOHNSON

I nearly wrote The Big Bopper too, but just checked & he was 28 (& Hank Williams was 29).

Otis Redding was quite close to 27 too

Add Ron "Pigpen" McKernan to the list as well...

Yes, Robert Johnson was the founder, followed by Brian and the others, including Cobain. His mother even stated that he was aware of the 27 club. Is Winehouse really up there with those people? I don't think you should get points for what COULD have been. Actually it makes me angry to think what she pissed away. She was a good songwriter.

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marko
How old was Kurt Cobain,even he shot himself but i think it was drug related?

Kurt is on the list ... he was 27 too

"Doctor please, some more men please,
To Cotchford Farm, out by the pool...

What a drag it is they couldn't revive him"

Brian Jones 2/28/42 - 7/2/69

When I was a kid, 27 seemed so old....
not that I am older, 27 seems so young.

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When I was a kid, 27 seemed so old....
not that I am older, 27 seems so young.

How true, when I first got interested in rock music at about age 11 I read about Jimi, Brian, Janis, Jim and all of the others. The age 27 didn't seem old to me but it did seem very far away., Now that I left my 20's behind and knowing Kurt Cobain and I were born the same year, I am so saddened at how young they all were and how much they could have done in their lives, professionally and personally.

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How true, when I first got interested in rock music at about age 11 I read about Jimi, Brian, Janis, Jim and all of the others. The age 27 didn't seem old to me but it did seem very far away., Now that I left my 20's behind and knowing Kurt Cobain and I were born the same year, I am so saddened at how young they all were and how much they could have done in their lives, professionally and personally.

Hi Lilith

Very well said, and you are correct, 27 was not OLD when I was young, a better way to put it is... "27 was just far away"... and now that I am on the other side of it... 27 is far away again... interesting.

27 came and went in a split second. I wont bore anyone with my story... I will just say that I would go back and relive those days (age 24-35) over again, in half a second I would do that deal. Those days were so much fun.

27 is too young to die,
May Amy (and Kurt and Jimi and Brian and Janis and Jim) rest in peace....

No Sympathy for junkies, you have a good life and f**k it up, bad luck.

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No Sympathy for junkies, you have a good life and f**k it up, bad luck.

I guess you have no idea what you're talking about. if only it was that easy!

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No Sympathy for junkies, you have a good life and f**k it up, bad luck.

As another trolling smartass establishes himself on IORR, and in
only 3 months and 159 posts, they really start young these days.


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Mathijs

Richie Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers was 27 when he disappeared in 1995

To include 2 people to this list over the last 40 years in rediculous. You can find more people in the rock world that weren't 27. From members of Skynyrd to Jim Croce. I bet if you did research you can find more Musicians dying at let's say 30? than 27.

Bad age for drummers: 32. Keith Moon and John Bonham were both 32 when they bought it.

Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat -- not up there fame wise but left us "On the Road Again" -- great otherworldly track with a harp lick I cannot cop no matter how hard I try. And a few other really good ones....

Made it to 47.

Kurt wanted to be in the club
I don't think the others did.

Whatever.

Fats Navarro dead at 26 and Clifford Brown at 25...
(in honor of my old jazz trumpeters idols)

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I removed my post to Amy's thread since it suits better to here.

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why are we romanticizing this so-called "27 club"? everyone knows about it now, pretty much. why glorify it even more? i'm pretty sure if someone did some research they'd find that at least 5 famous people died at the age of 73. or 83. or 47. or 65. or 91 or blah blah blah. how many big names from the sixties survived past the age of 27? i'm pretty sure it's a lot more than those that are in the "27 club".

People seem to have a go for numbers. I would say the casulties of the innocent and naive 60's - Brian, Jimi, Janis, Jim - and if we weren't so number freaky, many others not 27 and perhaps not that famous (I would also include people like Gram Parsons, Keith Moon or John Bonham too) - belong to a certain group of the first and original rock generation that learned the price of their 'cool' life style hard way. People who come after them, should know better. They have enough bad examples before them and being rich and famous, the best cures and rehabs or whatever to not repeat the fate of the first genaration. (So in this sense I 'understand' the actions of the first generation more than the ones who followed them). I think the idiocy of the "27" club really started by the time death of Kurt Cobain. Before that it was a thing of the past, a freak oddity. But then the cult of the biggest hero of the 90's, Cobain's, made it somehow cool and magical again. And now, contingently, poor Amy...

For example, even Jagger and Watts have mentioned that during the 60's when Brian got lost in drugs there wasn't places to send him or to treat him, or even know to what to do with him. No experience, no examples, nothing. And that took place during the time many of them really thought LSD can really enlarge your mind and consciousness, taking drugs an sich was such a hip or a gas thing to do, and not knowing anything of the consequences. And Brian wasn't even into heroin yet. But by the end of the 70's, people knew much much much more. The loss of those big names, starting from the most talented of them all, Hendrix, was a contingent but not such a surprise (now in hindsight) we can say. Sad sad sad. Yeah, I guess it was more to do with a good luck that, say, Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards got alive through the early/mid 70's period (when they 'mastered' the habit what they learned during the groovy 60's), or not having such a bad luck as Hendrix, and still are among us.

Oh yeah, if one doesn't want to repeat the fate of Amy Winehouse, there is a text book published last year that tells how to do it - how to manage alive and be cool whiling using drugs. A book called LIFE. (Now, after Amy's death, those passages in the book look very tasteless, pathetic and, most of all, stupid where Keef gives us 'instructions'.)

- Doxa