10 Creepiest Paranormal Events In Rock Music
6. The 27 Club
Rock and roll is not necessarily the healthiest of professions to go into. With drugs and alcohol running rampant throughout the scene, many musicians fall victim to their demons and end up in either an early grave or with a lifelong curse they have to live with for the rest of time. It's not the most pleasant of lifestyles, but it seems that rock's Grim Reaper has a fascination with a specific number.
As opposed to just having the trope of dying young, there have been far too many artists who have died at 27 to be considered a mere coincidence. While the aforementioned Robert Johnson was the earliest case of this cursed age, it became abundantly apparent towards the end of the '60s, when artists like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones all passed away at 27.
It would have been freaky enough in one decade, but this morbid trend has continued on through the years, with Nirvana's leader Kurt Cobain taking his own life at 27 and blues-pop singer Amy Winehouse succumbing to alcoholism at the same age in the early 2010s. The saying may have been to "live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse," but the mortality rate of rock stars has been much more specific than people may have realized.