Musicians who died by suicide

Sorry to sound so morbid.

I'm working on something and would like to see what type of list we can come up with. No need to post the Wikipedia list (all of us have access to it already).

Also, it'd be nice if you knew by what method they took their lives.

Let's start with some of the more obvious ones:

Tim Buckley - heroin/morphine/ethanol overdose
Judee Sill - cocaine and codeine overdose
Nick Drake - Prescription medicine overdose/probable suicide?
Phil Ochs - hanging
Ian Curtis - hanging
Mark Linkous - gunshot to the heart
Kurt Cobain - gunshot
Elliott Smith - stabbing/unknown/possible homicide
Marilyn Monroe - probably suicide/barbiturate overdose

Controversial/unknown/disappearances also count.

I almost want to say those who were on life support and stopped receiving it should count, as well, but this complicates matters, as many did not explicitly say they wanted to end their lives. I'm thinking of Glenn Gould here.

Glenn Miller - experimental kamikaze pilot

Ozzy Osbourne - head bitten off by a bat

Jon Bon Jovi - shot through the heart. and you're to blame.

Nick Van Eede: not sure but it was in somebody's arms

Karen Carpenter - fell from the top of the world whilst looking down on creation

Drummer out of Stereophonics - heard own music

Pete Droge - Dumb & Dumber OST

singer from big brother & holding co.: some kind of cardiac problem i think

In The New Book Of Rock Lists (1994), Keith Moon's death (he OD'd on Heminevrin, a sedative prescribed to curb his alcoholism) is asterisked with "possibly a suicide." Haven't seen that theory anywhere else, though.

Bobby Fuller, if we are to believe the reports

some kind of cardiac problem i think

this does not typically describe suicide

Pete Ham- went ham

oh my god

dude

Big Pun - Big Gun

Hitler.

(he played the uke).

G.G. Allen - held in his pee

glum, that is an interesting one, actually. Never thought of that.

well, i think we can all go home now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Musicians_who_committed_suicide

this is the perfect thread

Doug Hopkins from the Gin Blossoms is a good one. Read a really good longform article written about him shortly after he died. Very sad, and a real loss to music IMO.

dude there was no need to post the Wikipedia list

for some reason

drummer out of Feeder - heard own music

"Musicians who died" by Suicide?
Never heard this song. Is it from their second album?

I think it's actually by Jim Carroll

Good Old Boys - whiskey & rye

There's a reason we don't have an All Signal Dude Summertime Fun Board and Pickle Bar.

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Peter Sellers - heart went bum-diddy-bum-diddy-bum-diddy-bum-diddy-bum-diddy-bum-diddy-bum-bum-bum

That dude who helped Sheryl Crow write her first album, I think his name was Bill or Billy or Mac or buddy

Rick Astley - Gave up

Daniel Bedingfield - didn't get through this

Spice Girls - "spiced" up their lives if you know what I mean

dude there was no need to post the Wikipedia list

you're free to ignore it and move on with your life

Steve Perry - stopped believing

here's the story about Doug Hopkins. a great read.

http://www2.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12123

Billie Joe Armstrong - jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

My bloody valentine

Sugarbabes - hole in the heads

Justin Bieber - said never

Liz Phair -- couldn't breathe whenever she thought about you

Drake - YODO

Brian Johnston - drove hearse into car crusher

Seneca.

(He played the uke).

Perry Como - Rivers Cuomo

Rivers Cuomo - Luomo

Chemical Brothers - left home

Irene Cara - stopped being famous, could not fly

Meatloaf - Meatloaf

Gary Numan – got disconnected

Bill Ward - killed himself to live

nevermind, that was Geezer Butler

Elvis Costello--Pumped it up when he didn't really need it

Billy Joel - died in Vietnam w/all his buddies

Pretty sure he died of a heart attack ack ack ack ack.

can you have a suicide by heart attack?

You don't come back from a 4 ack-er.

If you choose to eat shitty food I guess.

Billy Joel - died in Vietnam w/all his buddies

Pretty sure he died of a heart attack ack ack ack ack.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 14:50 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, c'mon!

I heard he couldn't take it anymore.

Richard Thompson - rode on the wall of death one time too many

beethoven- du du du dunnnnnnnn

Too soon.

He is now de-composing.

TWU is Gary Larson!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ut3BRGKD2w4/TgM87vvQF9I/AAAAAAAAAFI/CvqrsLoMZ-o/s400/decomposing_maestro.jpg

Exploding Hearts

Haha! Some of these are hilarious.

Tom D, I had never heard of Andreas Schell. I will listen to some of his stuff later.

All this makes me think if ILXers contribute stuff to Wikipedia as a group. Kind of like a giving back to the community with all the knowledgeable people here.

jason diemilio of the azusa plane. developed severe tinnitus and hyperacusis, couldn't even listen to music without extreme pain anymore, OD'd on pills in his bath listening to the Smiths. very sad

you're all wrong about billy joel. he walked through bedford-stuy alone.

pj harvey - met ze monsta

Jason Pierce - http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/Religious/smokingjesus.gif

Tom Ellard - decapitation

Harry Nilsson - Couldn't live if living was without you

sadly, both co-writers of that nilsson song are actual answers to this thread.

Bobby Fuller, if we are to believe the reports

Sad that this is true - otherwise, there'd be an excellent "suicide by cop" joke to be made...

Alex Chilton - got to finally meet Elvis

Billy Joel couldn't take it anymore

(oops sorry Mark G beat me to it)

Billy Joel -- heroic death in rock and roller cola wars

Billy Joel deserves his own "1000 ways Billy Joel can die" thread

ooh .. even for ilm, that's nasty evan.

he went to extremes then

Strangely enough, he actually TRIED suicide (by drinking furniture polish)

Is it? How can I amend it to not be quite so dark?

Carly Simon - swallowed concealed cyanide pill to avoid revealing subject of "You're So Vain" while under torture

My god, what have I done

ooh .. even for ilm, that's nasty evan.

― mark e, Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:16 PM (53 minutes ago)

Obviously I didn't mean crying in a dark room with a gun in his hand- more like what's above...

yeah i know ..
but still, there are limits ..
a dedicated thread for one artist as to how he could die ..
soz.
i may be a little over sensitive to such a groove (i have my reasons etc)
..

Haha yeah was thinking more silly song jokes but I didn't intend to start any thread anyway

I can even murder suicide threads apparently.

Thread - Billy Joel jokes

This thread needs a theme song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_qbfbmT_s

The Flamingos - plucked out their eyes

Lorde - stuck diamonds in her flesh

Miley Cyrus - wrecked her balls

Imagine Dragons - checked out on the prison bus

Savages - silenced themselves

Bruce Dickinson - couldn't face the Yewtree interegation

Macklemore - overdosed on mackle

come on people, it's 2013 and musicians are DYING

Johnny Ace? Heard one of those "on this day" bits on the radio Christmas Day, the story that he killed himself playing Russian Roulette. Just looked at the Wikipedia entry, which disputes that with testimony he was just showing off, telling everyone the gun wasn't loaded. Either way, pointing a gun at yourself and pulling the trigger seems like halfway to suicide regardless of context.