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Entertainment > Music (Other) Remembering dead rock stars: The day the music died

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TRAGEDY IN THE KEY OF LIFE

There was a great scene in the movie "The Commitments" where the young members of a soul band in Dublin discussed the untimely deaths of famous rock stars, at one point debating on who had actually died by choking on their own vomit.

Unfortunately there has been a great number of tragic figures in the music industry, not only because of how they died but because they were great talents snuffed out at such an early age.

There is of course the "27" club, or rather curse, so named on account of the coincidence that some of the most famous rock stars perished...

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