The 27 Club

[Dzone]

TweetToday is the 17 year anniversary of Kurt Cobains suicide by shotgun.

27 Club
The 27 Club, also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club or Club 27, is a name for a group of influential rock and blues musicians who all died at the age of 27.

The 27 Club consists of two related phenomena, both in the realm of popular culture. The first is a list of five famous rock musicians who died at age 27—Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain. The second is the idea that many other notable musicians have also died at the age of 27.


Musicians usually included in the 27 Club

The impetus for the club's creation were the deaths of Jones, Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison. Cobain, who died in 1994, was later added by some. With the exception of Joplin, there is controversy surrounding their deaths. According to the book Heavier Than Heaven, when Cobain died, his sister claimed that as a kid he would talk about how he wanted to join the 27 Club. On the fifteenth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, National Public Radio's Robert Smith said, "The deaths of these rock stars at the age of 27 really changed the way we look at rock music." The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll details the history of the phenomenon.

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[trip]

Tweetstuff like this makes me think, man am i old, for 2-3 years it was cobain everywhere, seatle grunge, lol, i haven't thought about this shtye in ten years or way more

[daved150]

Tweetyea....they (nirvana) pushed the music industry back out west. there was alot going on down south, (florida) and out east before they came along. once they broke out, it seemed that if you wearnt wearing a flannel sukin shyt producers didnt want anything to fukin do with you, lol...

[skinnyman]

TweetI thought Morrison's body was never found and people claimed they saw him. Or did they eventaully find it?

[Strella]

TweetThat grunge crap was so tacky. I remember even in middle school people were rockin that flannel crap. It was emo before their was emo haha

[Dzone]

TweetI never did like that grunge shit. Morrison is buried in Paris. Now that dude was a genius ahead of his time. Cobain wa s nothing compared to jim morrison

[skinnyman]

Tweetdidn't morrison and joplin hang together? now that's a drug party

[Dzone]

TweetJim Morrison had the greatest rock and roll voice of all time