Rock Stars, Dead Before Their Time

Its a pretty tough life being a Rock Star, all that sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll, but lets face it , it cannot be easy being on stage with thousands of adoring fans screaming at your antics, every pelvic thrust elicits a scream from boys and girls alike, and to then go back to your hotel for a nice sleep or a gentle cocktail party to help you wind down.

The roadies are busy picking out the choices fruits for the after show party, making sure the napkins are folded, the table clothes clean and theres plenty of sparkling water..dream on, theyre picking out the choicest babes, sourcing the best drugs and ensuring there is an excess of booze, and this is every night. In fact its a wonder that there are not more Rock Star deaths associated with substances that really shouldnt be imbibed at all, let alone mixed in industrial quantities. It says something for the human body that it can take such poisoning and still function. There are those of course who have tested the limit with fatal consequences.

We explore the history of rock music, and spent a rather fruitful ( if thats the right expression ) morning listing those poor souls who are at that great gig in the sky, and there are an awful lot of them. The interesting thing is that they nearly all seem to have survived till about 27 and then overdosed, or much more unpleasantly drowned in their own vomit.

Now Im not a drug taker so the following comment is probably completely nave, but it seems to me that if youve been doing it for so long, surely you know what youre doing ? but clearly not, it really is a world of excess all areas.

In our archive we have an extraordinary movie about groupies in the Sixties, the drug of choice then was marihuana, but the girls were not groupies to have sex with Rock Stars ( well obviously some were ) but it was the drugs that attracted most of them first, then getting laid, usually by someone in the road crew and not the lead singer, who would have first pick of the girls, of course hash leads to cocaine and heroin and its the latter thats the killer especially when mixed with booze ( and the odd cheese burger ).

So we made a list of the ten Stars who didnt die of drug overdoses and here they are

John Lennon.................................. Murdered by Mark Chapman

Buddy Holly................................... Plane Crash

Tupac .................................................Assassinated

Ian Drury .................................. Cancer

Marvin Gaye ............................................Shot by his Father

Bob Marley ...............................................Cancer

Marc Bolan .....................................Car Crash

Eddie Cochran. ...................................Taxi Crash

Kurt Cobain ........................... ........Suicide, shot himself

Kirsty McColl.......................................Killed by jet skier

And just one more

Michael Hutchins...................................Suicide, drugs overdose

At the end of the whatever the cause you're just as dead!