nprmusic: The Sad Story Of The 27s Jim Morrison, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Co

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The Sad Story Of The 27s

Jim Morrison, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and now Amy Winehouse: The list of rockers who departed this world at the age of 27 is long — and eerie. Hear NPR’s All Things Considered report on “The 27s” in 2009.

It is so sad to see what fame, and being surrounded by enablers who need them to make a living, can do to a person.