Wednesday, February 6, 2008

... and they all shine on ...

too many legends have passed to remember ...

much less

the sequence in which they died:



12/5/1791

wolfgang amadeas mozart 34 rheumatic fever



3/26/1827

ludwig van beethoven 56 lead poisoning





4/1/1917

scott joplin 48 syphilis


8/2/1921

enrico caruso 48 peritonitis



8/6/1931

bix beiderbecke 28 delirim tremens/alcoholic seizure



5/26/1933

jimmie rodgers 35 tuberculosis



9/26/1937

bessie smith 43 car crash



8/16/1938

robert johnson 27 murdered/strychnine



12/15/1944

glenn miller 40 aircraft lost



12/6/1949

lead belly 61 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis



1/1/1953

hank williams 29 morphine



3/12/1955

charlie parker 35 pneumonia/bleeding ulcer



2/3/1959

ritchie valens 17 plane crash



2/3/1959

buddy holly 22 plane crash



2/3/1959

the big bopper 28 plane crash



7/17/1959

billie holiday 44 cirrhosis



10/17/1959

mario lanza 38 pulmonary embolism



4/21/1960

eddie cochran 21 taxi accident



11/5/1960

johnny horton 35 car crash



3/5/1963

patsy cline 30 plane crash



12/11/1964

sam cooke 33 shot



2/15/1965

nat king cole 45 lung cancer



7/18/1966

bobby fuller 23 "suicide"/murder



7/17/1967

john coltrane 40 liver cancer



10/3/1967

woody guthrie 55 Huntington's Disease



12/10/1967

otis redding 26 plane crash



2/27/1968

frankie lymon 25 heroin



6/22/1969

judy garland 47 Seconal



7/3/1969

brian jones 27 drowning/drugs/murder?



9/18/1970

jimi hendrix 27 Vesperax/ asphyxiation



10/4/1970

janis joplin 27 heroin



7/3/1971

jim morrison 27 heroin



7/6/1971

louis armstrong 69 heart attack



10/12/1971

gene vincent 36 ruptured stomach ulcer



10/29/1971

duane allman 24 motorcycle crash



1/27/1972

mahalia jackson 60 diabetes/heart failure



9/19/1973

gram parsons 26 morphine/alcohol



9/20/1973

jim croce 30 plane crash



12/20/1973

bobby darin 37 prosthetic heart valve clot



5/13/1975

bob wills 70 strokes



1/10/1976

howlin' wolf 65 kidney failure



5/14/1976

keith relf 33 electrocuted by guitar



8/29/1976

jimmy reed 50 alcoholism/epilepsy



8/16/1977

elvis presley 42 drugs/enlarged heart/heart attack



9/16/1977

maria callas 53 heart attack



9/16/1977

marc bolan 29 car crash



10/20/1977

ronnie van zant 29 air crash



4/21/1978

sandy denny 31 cerebral hemorrhage



9/1/1978

keith moon 32 Clomethiazole



2/2/1979

sid vicious 21 herion



6/29/1979

lowell george 34 heart attack



7/12/1979

minnie riperton 31 breast cancer



1/30/1980

professor longhair 61 died in his sleep



12/8/1980

john lennon 40 shot



5/11/1981

bob marley 36 melanoma



7/16/1981

harry chapin 38 car crash



1/30/1982

lightnin' hopkins 69 esophageal cancer/pneumonia



2/17/1982

thelonious monk 64 stroke



10/4/1982

glenn gould 57 stroke



12/8/1982

marty robbins 57 heart surgery complications



4/30/1983

muddy waters 70 died in his sleep



1/21/1984

jackie wilson 49 heart attack



4/1/1984

marvin gaye 44 shot



7/4/1984

jimmie spheeris 36 motorcycle crash



9/20/1984

steve goodman 36 leukemia



5/13/1988

chet baker 58 heroin/cocaine/head wounds



10/19/1988

son house 86 cancer of the larynx



12/6/1988

roy orbison 52 heart attack



2/1/1989

blaze foley 39 shot



2/8/1990

del shannon 55 suicide/shot



8/27/1990

stevie ray vaughn 35 helicopter crash



6/1/1991

david ruffin 50 cocaine



6/6/1991

stan getz 64 liver cancer



9/28/1991

miles davis 65 stroke/pneumonia/respiratory failure



11/24/1991

freddie mercury 45 HIV/bronchopneumonia



10/25/1992

roger miller 56 lung and throat cancer



1/6/1993

dizzy gillespie 75 pancreatic cancer



12/4/1993

frank zappa 52 prostate cancer



1/15/1994

harry nilsson 52 heart failure



4/5/1994

kurt cobain 27 suicide/shot



11/19/1994

cab calloway 86 stroke



3/31/1995

selina 23 murder/shot



8/9/1995

jerry garcia 53 heart attack



5/11/1996

walter hyatt 46 air crash



9/13/1996

tupac shakur 25 shot



11/2/1996

eva cassidy 33 melanoma



1/1/1997

townes van zandt 52 post-surgical pulmonary embolus



4/8/1997

laura nyro 49 ovarian cancer



3/9/1997

notorious B.I.G. 24 shot



5/29/1997

jeff buckley 30 drowned



6/26/1997

iz kamakawiwo'ole 38 weight-related respiratory illness



1/19/1998

carl perkins 65 strokes/throat cancer



5/14/1998

frank sinatra 82 heart attack



3/2/1999

dusty springfield 59 breast cancer



10/26/1999

hoyt axton 61 strokes/heart attack



12/26/1999

curtis mayfield 57 diabetes



4/15/2001

joey ramone 49 lymphoma



6/21/2001

john lee hooker 83 died in his sleep



6/30/2001

chet atkins 77 colon cancer



8/25/2001

aaliyah 22 plane crash



11/29/2001

george harrison 58 lung cancer



12/22/2002

joe strummer 50 congenital heart defect



6/15/2003

june carter cash 73 heart valve replacement surgery complications



7/16/2003

celia cruz 77 cancerous brain tumor



9/7/2003

warren zevon 56 mesothelioma



9/12/2003

johnny cash 71 diabetes/autonomic neuropathy



6/10/2004

ray charles 73 liver cancer



7/1/2005

luther vandross 54 diabetes/hypertension/stroke



1/19/2006

wilson pickett 64 heart attack



7/7/2006

syd barrett 60 diabetes/pancreatic cancer



12/25/2006

james brown 73 congestive heart failure/pneumonia



7/2/2007

beverly sills 78 lung cancer



9/6/2007

luciano pavarotti 71 pancreatic cancer



12/23/2007

oscar peterson 82 renal failure





Of
These
114 :


vehicular accidents

1. bessie smith

2. eddie cochran

3. johnny horton

4. duane allman

5. marc bolan

6. harry chapin

7. jimmie spheeris


diabetes/kidney failure

1. mahalia jackson

2. howlin' wolf

3. curtis mayfield

4. johnny cash

5. luther vandross

6. syd barrett

7. oscar peterson


overdose

1. hank williams

2. frankie lymon

3. judy garland

4. jimi hendrix

5. janis joplin

6. jim morrison

7. gram parsons

8. sid vicious

9. chet baker

10. david ruffin


aircraft accidents

1. glenn miller

2. buddy holly

3. ritchie valens

4. j.p richardson

5. patsy cline

6. otis redding

7. jim croce

8. ronnie van zant

9. stevie ray vaughn

10. walter hyatt

11. aaliyah


heart failure

1. louis armstrong

2. mahalia jackson

3. bobby darin

4. elvis

5. maria callas

6. lowell george

7. marty robbins

8. jackie wilson

9. roy orbison

10. harry nilsson

11. jerry garcia

12. frank sinatra

13. hoyt axton

14. joe strummer

15. june carter cash

16. wilson pickett

17. james brown



cancer

1. nat king cole

2. john coltrane

3. minnie riperton

4. bob marley

5. lightnin' hopkins

6. steve goodman

7. son house

8. stan getz

9. roger miller

10. dizzy gillespie

11. frank zappa

12. eva cassidy

13. laura nyro

14. carl perkins

15. dusty springfield

16. joey ramone

17. chet atkins

18. george harrison

19. celia cruz

20. warren zevon

21. ray charles

22. beverly sills

23. luciano pavarotti



still alive (2/21/08)

les paul 92

fats domino 79

chuck berry 81

little richard 75

jerry lee lewis 72

keith richards

merl haggard 70

george jones 76

charlie pride 69

willie nelson 74


... on and on and on and on and ...

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