Darby Crash: Age 22 | Cause Of Death: HEROIN / SUICIDE Germs (Died: December 7, 1980) Los Angeles punk band the Germs was formed in April 1977 and quickly became one of the most popular and influential…
Darby Crash: Age 22 | Cause Of Death: HEROIN / SUICIDE
Del Shannon: Age 55 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE (born: Charles Westover, 30 Dec. 1934, Coopersville, Michigan; died: 8 Feb. 1990, LA, CA) From the plethora of clean, American, post doo-wop male vocalists to find…
Del Shannon: Age 55 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE
Danny Rapp: Age 41 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE Danny & The Juniors (b. 10 May 1941, d. 4 April 1983). Formed in 1955 as the Juvenairs, their song Do The Bop came to the…
Danny Rapp: Age 41 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE
Douglas Hopkins: Age 32 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE Gin Blossoms b. 1961, d. 5 Dec 1993, Tempe, AZ After struggling for years against depression and alcoholism, chief songwriter Hopkins’ behaviour had became so unstable…
Douglas Hopkins: Age 32 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE
Donny Hathaway: Age 33 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE (b. 1 October 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 13 January 1979). Originally schooled in the gospel tradition, this versatile artist majored in musical theory before performing…
Donny Hathaway: Age 33 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE
Danny Gatton: Age 49 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE (Born: Sep 4 , 1945 in Washington, D.C., Died: Oct 20, 1994 in Newburg, MD) Danny Gatton is Washington D.C.’s musical legend, described in the Washington…
Danny Gatton: Age 49 | Cause Of Death: SUICIDE
Dinah Washington: Age 39 | Cause Of Death: POOR MAINTENANCE (b. Ruth Jones, 29 August 1924, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, d. 14 December 1963) She was settling down happily with her seventh husband when she took…
Dinah Washington: Age 39 | Cause Of Death: POOR MAINTENANCE
David Ruffin: Age 50 | Cause Of Death: POOR MAINTENANCE The Temptations (b. 18 January 1941, Meridian, Mississippi, USA, d. 1 June 1991) The younger brother of Jimmy Ruffin and the cousin of Melvin Franklin…
David Ruffin: Age 50 | Cause Of Death: POOR MAINTENANCE
Don Drummond: Age 37 | Cause Of Death: MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES Skatalites (b.1943, Kingston, JA, d. 6 May1969, Kingston, JA) One of the saddest things about Jamaican music is that one of its principal innovators died…
Don Drummond: Age 37 | Cause Of Death: MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
Don Rich: Age 32 | Cause Of Death: MOTORCYCLE Don Rich The Buckeroos (b. 5 August 1941, d. 17 July 1974)} Often called the “right arm” of Buck Owens, Donald Eugene Ulrich, better known as…
Don Rich: Age 32 | Cause Of Death: MOTORCYCLE