Rockers deaths

[Johan Edlundh]

At 08:58 1996-12-04 +0000, you wrote:
>Did David Byron really kill himself by accident with a gun?  That strikes
>me as quite amazing because exactly the same thing happened to Terry Kath,
>guitarist with Chicago.  He didn't think it was loaded, pointed it at his
>head and pulled the trigger to amuse his friends....

and they was amused..?


>Thain, I think, was in trouble with drugs and although I can't remember
>clearly, I am sure his death was drugs related.  I remember reading an
>article in Melody Maker in 1976 about people in the rock world who had
>died through abuse of drugs - and he was up there with Joplin, Hendrix et
>al.

As far as I know Thain was on drugs when he drowned - and his use of it was also the reason why he left/was sacked from Heep half a year (?) earlier.

I've never heard of a gun when talking about the death of Byron. He was in a heavy booze sequence, and he was told by a doctor that he should be dead within six months if he didn't quit *now*. Then he put in another gear - found the booze overdrive - and finished it on two months. That's the story which reached Sweden.


Another rocker's death is the Felix Pappalardi Incident. The bass player of Mountain was shot to death 1983 by his wife Gail Collins (the Mountain cover artist) during a ordinary "house fuzz".

\\joe