Is is just me, or are a lot of famous people dying lately? It seems you can't watch the news without seeing another famous face with dates underneath it.
First this week, we lost Patrick Swayze after a horrible fight with pancreatic cancer. Now today, Mary Travers of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary has had her name added to the ever growing list. I'm not puffing the magic dragon, and I know I'm getting older, but this is getting extreme.
Of course I went digging around to see if I could get an approximate tally of celebrity deaths, and I happened to find a list of Rock Star Deaths in 2009. It was staggering. The person who's compiling it not only included really famous people, but anyone who had anything to do with music in their lifetime, be it for film, TV or what have you. Part of me thinks it's a commendable thing to do, but another part of me thinks, dude, that's a bit creepy. Check it out for yourself at maximumink.com.
Thinking about all this started me on another tangent. What were the most shocking, horrible, unbelievable rock star deaths of all time? Obviously, there's Elvis and John Lennon, but aside from them, here's my top five.
1. Sid Vicious - yes, he died of an overdose as so many other rock stars have. But he died of that overdose while out on bail for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
2. Kurt Cobain - suicide was the official cause but the rumors about Courtney Love having done him in still circulate.
3. Randy Rhoads - a gifted guitar player who hated to fly dies in a small plane crash.
4. Brian Jones - see my earlier post on this one. I loves me a good murder mystery.
5. Cliff Burton - this probably wouldn't make most people's lists, but being the Metallica fan that I am, I had to include it. Hearing James Hetfield describe how he went looking for him out in the dark on the road after the bus accident is heartbreaking.
Call me morbid, but you can't deny it's fascinating.
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