The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars by Jeremy Simmonds and other artists whom have since pasted. Download a list of deaths in America since 1900 here: https://anomale.rf.gd/us-homicide.htm or https://anomale.rf.gd/us-suicide.htm
Then, having completed just two years of his sentence, Willie John died mysteriously. Keen to put the case behind them, authorities returned a verdict of heart attack, though there have been unsubstantiated tales over the years of mistreatment by both staff and inmates, possibly resulting in asphyxiation.
Little Willie John born November 15, 1937, died May 26, 1968
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Struggling not to cough up blood during his performances, he played an impromptu jam, now the stuff of folklore, with the group Levon & The Hawks (who went on to become Bob Dylan’s back up unit The Band) just a fortnight before he passed away. Williamson’s failure to show up to present his radio show in May 1965 prompted KFFA to send someone to rouse him, but it was too late. Williamson had died in his sleep at his boarding house in Helena, Arkansas.
Sonny Boy Williamson II born March 12, 1905, died May 25, 1965
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The first bona fide rock ‘n’ roll death.
Danny Cedrone born June 20, 1920, died May 21, 1964
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Travelling back to London from a Birmingham concert, the band’s van was involved in a crash near Mill Hill, while other members were shaken up, Thompson was badly injured, and Martin Lamble was killed instantly.
Martin Lamble born August 28, 1948, died May 14, 1969
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To impress his girlfriend, Olivia, and blues singer Big Mama Thornton, his guests backstage as he took a break from the Houston crowd. Olivia on his lap, he put the gun to his head and, chancing upon the one bullet in the chamber, proceeded to blow his brains out.
Johnny Ace born June 9, 1929, died May 13, 1941
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The likelihood is that his end came at the Three Forks roadhouse in Greenwood, Mississippi, belonging to his lover’s jealous husband, it is also highly probable that Johnson, had been with the woman in question that very evening.
Robert Johnson born August 16, 1938, died May 8, 1911
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The causes of Drummond’s own death while institutionalized remain speculative, the majority accept the given verdict of suicide, though suggestions of intervention by members of Mahfood’s family, or even a beating by guards at the unit, were dramatically brought to the fore by Drummond’s contemporary Hugh Malcolm.
Don Drummond born March 12, 1932, died May 6, 1969
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The frenetic Chicago blues and boogie woogie man checked out after a third coronary.
Elmore James born January 27, 1918, died May 5, 1963
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‘Once you’re dead you’re made for life - you have to die before they think you’re worth anything’ Jimi Hendrix
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