Musicians who died by suicide

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.

― Another turning point, a stork fuck in the road (ledge), Monday, March 25, 2013 10:28 AM

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

Orbital - caught on fire due to the impact (the Earth was burning)

bloke out of Midnight Oil - bed was burning

Daft Punk - got unlucky

Underworld - died roughy

Tiny Tim - Massive Tumour

Liam Howlett - poison

(Keith Flint was too late with the remedy)

Brad Paisely - accidental bloodmist

Pharrell Williams - stayed up all night, got hit by truck

Anthony Kiedis - eaten by coyote

Perry Farrell - caught stealing

Sade - broke the sweetest taboo

Michael Jackson - stopped when he got enough

Cindy Lauper - drove all night, hit Pharrell Williams

Madonna - frozen

David Lee Roth - Jumped

Joe Meek - killed his landlady and inherited the earth.

Pat Benatar - died on battlefield

Johnny Cash - one piece at a time

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.