Unfortunately many rock stars have died from 'Sex,
Drugs & Rock'n'roll'.
A few of these deaths are detailed below.
Dee Dee Ramone
(The Ramones)
June 5th 2002 Aged 50
Heroin Overdose
Gram Parsons
(The Byrds)
September 19th 1973 Aged 26
Morphine and Alcohol
Hillel Slovak
(Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
June 27th 1988 Aged 26
I.V. Speedball
(Heroin & Cocaine)
Jimi Hendrix
September 18th 1970 Aged 27
Sleeping Pills (allegedly)
Janis Joplin
October 4th 1970 Aged 27
Heroin Overdose
John Entwistle
(The Who)
June 27th 2002
Heart attack brought on by cocaine use. He died in
bed with a stripper in a hotel room in Las Vegas.
Johnny Thunders
(The New York Dolls & Johnny Thunders and The
Heartbreakers)
April23rd 1991 Aged 38
Exact cause of death still a mystery - Thunders was
a long time Heroin user and was allegedly given LSD
and murdered for his Methadone.
Keith Moon
(The Who)
September 7th 1978
Clomethiazole overdose - a sedative he was being
prescribed to help with withdrawal from alcohol.
Oddly he died in the same room in the same flat
(Flat 12, 9 Curzon Place, Mayfair) that Cass Elliot
had died in 4 years earlier.
Kristen Pfaff
(Hole)
June 16th 1994 Aged 27
Heroin Overdose
Mama Cass Elliot
(The Mama's & the Papas')
July 29th 1974
Ham Sandwich
(heart attack really - the ham sandwich
thing is a popular myth)
