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Razzle: Murdered by evil Heroin kingpin/kung fu master with detachable metal hand (note: Razzle did not notice; was too busy looking good)

J Dilla: Plowed into by Pete Rose at home plate in 1970 All-Star Game

John Bonham: Unexplained mishap on set of The Muppet Show

Brian Jones: lost fight with horse

― nate p. (natepatrin), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Gram Parsons: suffocation from own farts

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Sandy Denny: cancer of the hangnail

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Very Meltzeresque thread.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Little Richard: make-up intoxication.

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Darby Crash - fatal Go-Kart accident

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That's latebloomer's conspiracy theory as opposed to MY CORRECT AND GLORIOUS ANSWER ABOVE, thank you. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Little Richard: make-up intoxication.

Same with Baltimora. The same thing might have happened to Cyndi Lauper if the scurvy hadn't gotten to her first.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

oh sorry Ned i missed yours!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

but maybe they BOTH happened and contributed to his death

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

a lot can happen in a few short hours

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The Bay City Rollers: mistook real knives for toy knives on live television

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Steve Winwood: electrocuted trying to retrieve ring from fondue pot

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Lloyd Cole: executed on Cambodia's killing fields

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Sterling Morrison: died in childbirth

― p@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Billy Murcia: Fluxus Happening mishap

― p@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Phil Ochs: died of fear from dental phobia

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Danny Whitten: old age

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Chris Bell: entropy

― p@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

John Lennon: assassinated by KGB agent using ricin pellet shot from tap shoes

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Van McCoy: botched assumption into heaven

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Vivian Stanshall: fell asleep on railway

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Miles Copeland: stabbed by Christopher Hitchens in bar after argument about whether cock "tastes great" or is "less filling."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Lightin' Hopkins: carried off and then dropped by clumsy eagle.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Johnny Cash: mistook gun for bible

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Judy Garland: devoured by swarm of ladybugs

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Lisa Lopes: fatal sinistrocular reaction to latex

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Johnny Ace: rubbed out by giant eraser from the sky

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

George Formby: crushed to death by unsafe lamp-post.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Hoagy Carmichael: death by a thousand cold-cuts

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Minnie Ripperton: laughed too hard watching re-run of Love, American Style

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

lisa loeb: unwisely accepted date with patrick bateman

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Eddie Hazel: too cool to live and/or orthodontial malpractice

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

roky erickson: killed by a morlock after going to the year 802,701 to reclaim his true love

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

steve perry: tripped over shoelace

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Grace Slick: tripped over Steve Perry tripping over shoelace

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

George Gershwin: lung cancer
Ira Gershwin: hunting accident
Stanley Gershwin: choked on a lozenge

amazing, all three deaths occured at the same exact time, on the same exact day, in three different time zones.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Keith Moon: not cleared by cow

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Kirsty MacColl: starved to death whilst renovating Sistine Chapel

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the Archies: entire band wiped out by Dutch Elm Disease
the Partridge Family: Lyme Disease
MSTRKRFT: lost at sea, no bodies were ever recovered
West End Girls: Murder-Suicide
Al DiMeola: crushed by a vending machine, as he tried to rock free a stuck bag of Cheez-Its.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Cowboy: stabbed in back by rodeo clown

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

spike jones: swallowed own whistle

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Lynyrd Skynyrd: stillborn

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

frank sinatra: died of shame after recalling scathing ridicule in doonesbury c. 1986

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

axl rose: eaten by tasmanian devil during last GNR tour

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Elton John: died of starvation en route to Milan after mailing himself in gift package for Gianni Versace

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Marvin Gaye: complications from neck trauma caused by butter-slicked Slip 'N Slide

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Bob Marley: fraternity hazing gone awry

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Sid Vicious: just too damned sassy for his good

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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Biz Markie: Felled by an assassin's bullet while traveling in a motorcade down Dealey Plaza in Dallas
The Edge: Cut finger on a cat-food tin, left it unattended-to, bled out after 22 years

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 22 February 2009 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Mike Oldfield: Disappeared while trying to surf the Pipeline in Oahu

― the who cares (okamax), Friday, 3 July 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Cliff Burton - garotted by a completely nude James Hetfield, who then forced the bus driver to crash the bus to cover it up

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 17 March 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link

Tiny Tim - murdered onstage by the Symbionese Liberation Army

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 17 March 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link

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