Musicians who died by suicide

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.