The Greys said:
Laugh, clown.
HERE, IN THIS THREAD, WE SHALL COMPILE THE WORLD'S (gmd's) LONGEST LIST OF DEAD ROCK'N'ROLL MUSICIANS:
(note: if you can, add what bands/projects they were involved in, and their specific cause of death.)
THE LIST
Jeff Buckley (solo) {drowned in the Mississippi}
Tim Buckley (solo) {heroin+alcohol overdose}
Nick Drake (solo) {anti-depressant overdose}
Cliff Burton (Metallica) {something involving Sweden}
Erik Brødreskift [Grim] (Borknagar) {sleeping pill overdose}
Joe Strummer (The Clash) {cancer, I think}
Oystein Aarseth [Euronymous] (Mayhem) {fell on a knife}
Per Yngve Ohlin [Dead] (Mayhem) {fell on shotgun pellets, face first}
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Bon Scott (AC/DC) {choked on his own vomit like a real punkrocker}
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Ace Börje Forsberg [Quorthon] (Bathory) {heart failure}
David Wayne (Metal Church) {complications from injuries sustained from a car accident}
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Dimebag Darrell (Pantera/Damage Plan) {death by fanboy}
Piggy (Voivod) {terminal spirit disease}
Chuck Schuldiner (Death, Control Denied) {terminal spirit disease}
Roger Patterson (Athiest) {car accident}
Mama Cass (Mamas and Poppas) {chicken bone, ham sandwich, rolled over wrong & suffocated under her own fatrolls, etc.}
Elvis Presly (solo) {in the can, while dropping a big hunka burnin' love}
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J.D. Kimball (Omen) {???}
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Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) {heroin lolz}
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Jimi Hendrix (solo) {overdose and/or choking on his own/someone else's vomit}
Einar Fredriksen (Funeral (NOR)) {suicide solution}
Agyl (Scald (RUS)) {unknown, dead in 1997}
Paul Baloff (Exodus) {stroke man, stroke man}
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John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) {choked on Jimmy Page's vomit}
Randy Rhoads (Ozzy,Quiet Riot) {just a plane ol' crash}
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Teemu Raimoranta (Finntroll) {falling 'accident'/suicide}
Johnny Cash (solo) {does, indeed, "count"}
Jim Morrison (the Doors) {to paraphrase Dennis Leary, "I'm drunk, I'm nobody, I'm drunk, I'm famous, I'm drunk, I'm dead. The life of The Lizard King."}
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Elliott Smith (solo) {suicide solution, poor d00d...}
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Ian Curtis (Joy Division) {hanged himself}
Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) {heroin/cocaine LOLZ!}
Ronnie van Zant + some other dudes (Lynyrd Skynyrd) {fell out of the sky}
Valfar (Windir) {hypothermia, the "kvltist" way to die}
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Steve MacDonald (Gorguts) {suicide solution/death by noose}
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Karcharoth (Infernum, Graveland) {suicide solution}
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Krzysztof 'Doc' Raczkowski (Vader) {he don't like teh drugs, but teh drugs likes him}
Mieszko Talarczyk (Nasum) {tsunami-related}
Fred "Death" Duval (Massacra) {terminal spirit disease}
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Fana Medek and Mirek Sabata (Amon (Cze)) {car crash}
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Jørgen Skjölden (Fester (Nor)) {overdose}
Thorsten Reissdorf (Torchure) {car accident}
Andreas Reissdorf (Torchure) {same car accident, I'd assume}
Michael Schmale (Lemming Project) {???}
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Kurt Struebing (NME) {drove off a fucking bridge lol}
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...that's a start, now come up with some more. I'll keep adding to my list, and add everyone else's suggestions if I care enough.
