05/04/2011

Kurt and The Curse of 27

Nirvana guitarist and singer Kurt Cobain took his own life 17 years ago, on April 5, 1994. His mother, Wendy O’Connor, famously said: “Now he's gone and joined that stupid club… I told him not to join that stupid club.”

The “stupid club” was not just that of suicides. Cobain was 27 years old, and many legendary rockers have died at a youthful 27. Coincidence? Or the rock ’n’ roll curse of 27?

Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Jim Morrisson (The Doors)
Brian Jones (Rolling Stones)
Richey Edwards (Manic Street Preacher Axeman)
Robert Johnson (Blues Originator)
Kristen Pfaff (Hole's Bassist)
Jeremy Michael Ward (The Mars Volta)
Pete De Freitas (Echo and The Bunnymen)
Dave Alexander (The Stooges)
and sadly many more

read more about the Curse of the 27 club at www.gigseen.tv