Vente.īorn Johnny Allen Hendrix and later becoming James Marshall Hendrix, Jimi was a guitar virtuoso in the best of the psychedelic era. Hendrix performing on the Dutch television show Hoepla in 1967. Among his hits were “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” “Purple Rain,” “Raspberry Beret,” “When Doves Cry,” and “Cream,” his last #1 hit in the United States.ĥ. He had sold over 100 million records and won 8 Grammy Awards among his many accolades. While friends thought he had been clean prior to his death at the age of 57, his autopsy found he had died of a fentanyl overdose at his Minnesota home. His doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sent to prison for improperly using the drugs.Īnother musical writing, arranging and singing genius, Prince had an on and off history of drug abuse. The singer, writer and dancer was being administered the drugs by a doctor in order to help him sleep. Jackson died at the age of 50, still on top of the music game of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication leading to cardiac arrest. The “King of Pop,” MJ was certainly on top of the musical world for most of his career, despite a couple of bouts with the courtroom over allegations of child abuse (civil and criminal), which he came out untouched by conviction or decision against him.
Her autopsy indicated drug intoxication along with alcohol as leading to her passing out in the tub.ģ. Some of her huge hit singles included “I Will Always Love You,” “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),” “How Will I Know?” and “The Greatest Love of All.” Sadly, Whitney’s only child, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was found face down in a bathtub in 2015, and remained in a coma until her death a few months later. She also drowned in a bathtub while under the influence of cocaine, with heart disease a contributing factor. The most awarded female singer of all time, Houston is also the only person to chart 7 consecutive singles as #1 on the United States’ Billboard 200. Photograph by PH2 Mark Kettenhofen.Ī mega star of the highest order, Houston also starred in the feature film, The Bodyguard (1992) and other movies. Houston performing at Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston in 1991. Only 46 years old at her death, O’Riordan was famous for her songs “Linger,” “Zombie,” and “Dreams.” Her beautiful voice with its Irish accent will haunt us forever.Ģ. While she also had prescription drugs in her system, those drugs were deemed to be of medicinal quantities, although combined with the alcohol would have made her sedated enough to drown. Photograph by Nat Ch Villa.Īuthorities were reluctant to release a cause of death when the dynamic songstress was found dead in her bathtub, but finally word came out that O’Riordan had drowned while having a blood alcohol content of. O’Riordan performing at Montreal in May 2012. Several other rockers died by suicide while under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, notably Kurt Cobain.) Digging Deeperġ. ( Note: Elvis Presley died of a heart attack but was compromised health wise by over medication of prescription drugs.
ROCK STAR MANAGER WEENED HIM OFF HEROIN FREE
Please feel free to mention other singers and musicians you think deserve mention in this article. Today we list 10 of those incidents, some of which have happened in the very recent past, mirroring modern society’s epidemic of deaths caused by drug overdose. Unfortunately for music fans, as well as the family and friends of the victims, too many singers have died before their time either directly or indirectly because of drug use and abuse. On January 15, 2018, Irish lead singer of the Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan, died in her bathtub, drowned while under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
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