Stairway to 27
Rock’s Greatest Legends Climbed Toward the Top only to Stop Just Before Same Next Step
Throughout the years, we have lost a number of rock and roll legends, most of them burning out well before they reached the age of 30. But Richard Syrett, the writer of Tales from the Rock ‘n Roll Twilight Zone, drills down further. His investigation includes many of the curious circumstances surrounding stars who not only share the common thread of being from the same profession but also of the same age at the time of death—27 years-old.
The list includes the following names:
- Jim Morrison (the Doors)
- Janis Joplin
- Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
- Jimi Hendrix
- Robert Johnson
- Brian Jones (Rolling Stones)
- Ron McKernan (Grateful Dead)
- Peter de Freitas (Echo & the Bunnymen)
- Amy Winehouse
- Peter Ham (Badfinger)
- Several others…
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