Rock & Rollers: not always the brighest bulbs in the pack. It's a long list that keeps on growing.
From the Sunday Express:
Every rock star aspires to live fast, die young and leave an elegantly wasted corpse - and a shocking number have succeeded. Here, for the first time, Phil McNeill catalogues every major musician who has died directly as a result of drink or drugs.
Howie Epstein (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
Heroin overdose
John Entwistle (The Who)
Heart attack caused by cocaine
Dee Dee Ramone (The Ramones)
Heroin overdose
Layne Staley (Alice In Chains)
Heroin and cocaine overdose
Zac Foley (EMF)
Overdosed on heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, barbiturates and alcohol
Bobby Sheehan (Blues Traveler)
Overdosed on heroin, cocaine and Valium
Dennis Brown
a crack-cocaine addict who had one lung, died apparently of Aids-related pneumonia
David McComb (Triffids)
Drugs
Rob Pilatus (Milli Vanilli)
Drugs and alcohol
Epic Soundtracks (Swell Maps)
Drugs
John Dougherty (Flipper)
Heroin overdose
Keith Ferguson (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
Liver failure
Billy Mackenzie (Associates)
Overdose of paracetamol (suicide)
Townes Van Zandt
Alcohol-induced heart attack
John Panozzo (Styx)
Alcohol-induced internal haemorrhage
Jonathan Melvoin (Smashing Pumpkins)
Heroin overdose
John Kahn (Jerry Garcia Band)
Cocaine overdose
Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon)
Heroin overdose
Dwayne Goettel (Skinny Puppy)
Heroin overdose
Phyllis Hyman
Overdose of sleeping pills (suicide)
Rory Gallagher (Taste)
Failed liver transplant
Frank O'Keefe (The Outlaws)
Drugs
Bob Stinson (The Replacements)
Heroin overdose
Kristen Pfaff (Hole)
Heroin overdose
Michael Clarke (The Byrds)
Cirrhosis of the liver
Randy Jo Hobbs (McCoys, Johnny/Edgar Winter)
Multiple drug intoxication
Rob Jones (The Wonder Stuff)
Drugs
GG Allin
Heroin and cocaine overdose
Toy Caldwell (Marshall Tucker Band)
Acute respiratory failure
Helno (Les Negresses Vertes)
Heroin overdose
David Ruffin (The Temptations)
Crack cocaine overdose
Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls)
Methadone overdose
Steve Clark (Def Leppard)
Alcohol
Brent Mydland (Grateful Dead)
Overdose of injected cocaine and morphine
Keith Whitley
Alcohol poisoning
Vincent Crane (Atomic Rooster)
Overdose of sleeping pills
Ron Morgan (The Electric Prunes)
Hepatitis C
Hillel Slovak (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
Heroin and cocaine overdose
Jesse Ed Davis (Session musician)
Heroin overdose
Will Shatter (Flipper)
Heroin overdose
Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)
Blood poisoning caused by heroin
Gary Holton (Heavy Metal Kids)
Overdose of heroin and alcohol
Wells Kelly (Orleans, Meat Loaf)
Heroin overdose
Candy Givens (Zephyr)
Drowned while using drugs and alcohol
Pete Farndon (The Pretenders)
Drowned after taking heroin
James Honeyman-Scott (The Pretenders)
Cocaine and heroin overdose
Mike Bloomfield (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
Cocaine overdose
Bill Haley
Heart attack caused by alcohol abuse
Tim Hardin
Heroin and morphine overdose
Darby Crash (The Germs)
Heroin overdose (suicide)
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Asphyxiation after excessive alcohol
Malcolm Owen (The Ruts)
Heroin overdose
John Paulos (The Buckinghams)
Drugs-related heart failure
Bon Scott (AC/DC)
Asphyxiated while drunk
Judee Sill
Heroin overdose
Lowell George (Little Feat)
Heroin-induced heart attack
Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)
Heroin overdose
Keith Moon (The Who)
Overdose of tranquillisers
Gregory Herbert (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
Cocaine overdose
Tommy Bolin (Deep Purple)
Heroin overdose
Phil Ochs
Suicide/alcohol
Gary Thain (Uriah Heep)
Heroin overdose
Tim Buckley
Heroin overdose
Nick Drake
Overdose of antidepressants
Robbie McIntosh (Average White Band)
Heroin laced with strychnine
Vinnie Taylor (Sha Na Na)
Heroin overdose
Gram Parsons (Byrds)
Multiple drug toxicity
Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan (Grateful Dead)
Duodenal ulcer/alcohol
Danny Whitten (Crazy Horse)
Heroin overdose
Bill Murcia (New York Dolls)
Drowned while using alcohol and barbiturates
Miss Christine (GTO)
Overdose of painkillers
Brian Cole (The Association)
Heroin overdose
Jim Morrison (The Doors)
Heart failure probably caused by heroin
Janis Joplin
Heroin overdose
Jimi Hendrix
Choked on his own vomit/alcohol and sleeping pills
Dickie Pride
Overdose of sleeping pills
Peter Rosen (War)
Drugs overdose
Frankie Lymon (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers)
Heroin overdose
Rudy Lewis (The Drifters)
Drugs overdose
