Dead musicians.

[Laharl]

Just for fun, I went through my music playlist and figured out how many bands I listen to have at least one of their original members (or a famous guy in the band if not there from the get-go) that is now dead.

This is what I came up with.

AC/DC - Bon Scott, their original lead singer (well, pretty much... their first lead singer made, like, two songs with them and I didn't even know about it until I looked up info on how Scott died), died on Feb 19th of 1980, after getting drunk and passing out in his car.


The Doors - Jim Morrison, their singer, died "under mysterious circumstances" in Paris on July 3rd, 1971. Common speculation was a drug overdose.


Jimi Hendrix - Found dead on the morning of September 18th, 1970. He took a bunch of sleeping pills and choked to death on his own vomit.


Led Zeppelin - Joh Bonham, their drummer, died of an accidental asphyxiation after a drinking binge on September 25th, 1980.


Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ronnie Van Zant (lead singer), Steve Gaines (guitar) and Cassie Gaines (back-up singer) died in a tragic plane crash on October 20th, 1977. (The assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick was also killed, as well as the pilot and co-pilot of the airplane.)
Ronnie Van Zant
Steve Gaines
Cassie Gaines

Metallica - Cliff Burton, their original bassist, died in a freak automobile accident on September 27th, 1986. The tour bus hit black ice and rolled and he fell out the window. He might have survived, but when the bus was being lifted off him, the cable snapped, the bus crushing him again. (Kirk Hammet and he drew cards to see who would have got the top bunk that day. Hammet still feels terrible about it.)


Queen - Eccentric front man Freddie Mercury died of AIDS on November 23rd, 1991.


Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hillel Slovak, their original lead guitarist, died of a heroin overdose on June 25th, 1988.


Steppenwolf - Jerry Edmonton, their drummer, died in a car accident in 1993.


These are just bands on my personal playlist of songs on Winamp. I know I didn't include Nirvana, because *gasp* I don't like them. The only song of theres I genuinely like is Heart Shaped Box. So they're not on my playlist. I also believe that the singer of Alice in Chains is dead, which is a band I'm told by a lot of friends I should look into.

Feel free to add to this list. Tell the band name, then which members are dead, how they died, and when. Include a picture if you want.

EDIT
If you want a good site to look this stuff up, I used a place called wikimedia.