Fallen Idols

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

Where's Marc Moreland? He died in France waiting for a liver.

"Nick Drake - Overdose of antidepressants"

the irony is killing me.

looks like heroin and alcohol account for almost everyone, well apart from the suicides.

I think we all ought to take a lesson from this and stik to pot from now on.

Originally posted by Ikarus:
"Nick Drake - Overdose of antidepressants"

the irony is killing me.

I guess that's what Richard Ashcroft meant when he wrote 'The Drugs Don't Work'. ?

don't like the drugs but the drugs like me…