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02 Nov 09

List of drug-related deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bryan Ottoson (27) - musician, American Head Charge, accidental prescription-drug overdose.
- Delphine Neid - musician, The Nuns, drugs overdose.
- Joachim Nielsen (36) - rock musician in the band Jokke & Valentinerne, drug overdose
- Bradley Nowell (28) - musician, Sublime, heroin overdose.
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- Jim Morrison (27) - musician, The Doors, heart failure, alcohol abuse (cause and fact of death disputed).
  Billy Murcia - musician, the New York Dolls, accidental suffocation after drugs and alcohol.
  Brent Mydland (37) - musician, keyboardist, of the Grateful Dead, cocaine/morphine overdose.
- Keith Moon (32) - musician, the Who, accidental overdose on anti-seizure medication prescribed for alcoholism.
- David McComb (36) - musician, The Triffids, heroin overdose.
  Jimmy McCulloch (26) - musician with Wings, guitarist, heroin overdose.
  Robbie McIntosh (24) - musician, Average White Band, heroin overdose.
- Billy Mackenzie (39) - musician, the Associates, overdosed on temazepam, amitriptyline, and paracetamol (suicide).
- Phil Lynott (36) - musician, Thin Lizzy, health breakdown caused by a heroin overdose. (speedball.)
- Frankie Lymon (25) - musician, doo wop singer, heroin overdose.
- John Kahn (48) - musician, Jerry Garcia Band, complications of heart disease, heroin, cocaine, and antidepressants found in his body.
- Janis Joplin (27) - rock and roll and blues musician, heroin overdose.
  Rick James (56)- musician Died August 6, 2004 of a drug induced heart-attack
  
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- Rob Jones (a.k.a. The Bass Thing) - musician - former bassist of The Wonder Stuff, heroin/cocaine/alcohol overdose.
- Michael Jackson (50) - musician, heart attack due to drug overdose.
- Steven Ronald "Stevo" Jensen - musician, The Vandals, prescription drug overdose.
- James Honeyman-Scott (25) - musician, the Pretenders, cocaine overdose.
  Shannon Hoon (28) - musician, singer in Blind Melon, cocaine overdose.
- Hollywood Fats (32) - musician, heroin overdose.
- Jimi Hendrix (27) - rock and roll musician, respiratory arrest caused by alcohol and barbiturate overdose and vomit inhalation.
- Tim Hemensley - indie musician, member of GOD, heroin overdose
- Eddie Hazel (42) - musician, guitarist, of the P-funk collective, liver failure.
- Bobby Hatfield (63) - musician, The Righteous Brothers, heart attack triggered by cocaine overdose.
  Tim Hardin (39) - folk musician, heroin and morphine overdose.
- Paul Gonsalves (53) - jazz tenor saxophonist, Duke Ellington, narcotics overdose
  Gribouille (26) - singer, drugs overdose.
- Dwayne Goettel (31) - musician, Skinny Puppy, heroin overdose.
- Lowell George (34) - musician, Little Feat, heart attack - habitual drug abuse probable cause.
- Paul Gardiner (25) - musician, Tubeway Army, drug overdose.
- Zac Foley (31)^[4] - musician, EMF, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, temazepam, barbiturates and alcohol in bloodstream.
- Pete Farndon (31) - musician, the Pretenders, drowned/ heroin overdose.
- John Entwistle (57) - musician, bassist for the Who, died from heart failure brought upon by cocaine use.
  Brian Epstein (32) - Manager of The Beatles, accidental sleeping pill overdose.
  Howie Epstein (47) - musician, ex-bassist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, heroin overdose^[3].
- Florence Ballard (32) - musician, The Supremes, cardiac arrest strongly exacerbated by long-term drug abuse.
- Kevin DuBrow (52) - rock vocalist, cocaine overdose.
- John Dougherty - musician, Flipper, heroin overdose.
- Tommy Dorsey (51) - jazz musician and bandleader, choked to death while sleeping with the aid of drugs.
- DJ Screw (29) - musician, heart attack thought to be result of codeine overdose.
- Jesse Ed Davis (43) - guitarist, session musician, drug overdose.
- Pamela Courson (27) - common law wife of Jim Morrison of The Doors, heroin overdose.
  Carl Crack (30) - musician, Atari Teenage Riot, drug overdose.
  Darby Crash (22) - punk musician, of The Germs, suicide by heroin overdose.
  Robbin Crosby (42) - musician, ex-Ratt, contracted HIV as a result of long-time heroin addiction and died of a heroin overdose.
- Brian Cole (29) - musician, the Association, heroin overdose.
- Sonny Clark (31) - musician, hard bop pianist, heroin overdose.
  Steve Clark (30) - musician, Def Leppard, accidential death (anti-depressants, painkillers and alcohol).
- Toy Caldwell (45) - musician, Marshall Tucker Band.
  Casey Calvert (26) - guitarist of Hawthorne Heights, accidental drug overdose through mixture of opiates, citalopram, and clonazepam.
- Chad Butler (aka "Pimp C") - rap musician, accidental overdose of Promethazine/Codeine "syrup" mixed with a pre-existing medical condition, sleep apnea^[1]^[2].
  Paul Butterfield (44) - musician, drug and alcohol overdose.
- Tim Buckley (28) - rock and roll musician, heroin overdose.
- Mike Bloomfield (36) - blues guitarist, heroin overdose.
- Nick Drake (26) - musician, anti-depressant overdose, disputed suicide.

Editorial Notebook - Memphis - NYTimes.com

If I had to name the best short story in the form of a song lyric, I suspect the winner would be Chuck Berry’s “Memphis, Tennessee”

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16 Aug 09

While My Guitar Gently Beeps - The Beatles - Rock Band - NYTimes.com

Beatles music video game

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The band that upended the cultural landscape of the 1960s is now hitching its legacy to the medium of a new generation: the video game.
games intensify people’s engagement with music.
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- THE EVENTS THAT The Beatles: Rock Band recreates and reimagines are not just stepping stones in the career of a band but transformational shifts in the history of popular music.
- The Beatles are positioning themselves to once again play a significant role in the evolution of popular music — this time by embracing interactivity.
- “We’re on the precipice of a culture shift around how the mass market experiences music,”
- music games are now the second-most-popular type on the market, ahead of sports and not far behind the traditional action category.
- Together, Guitar Hero and Rock Band (now rival franchises owned by competing companies) have altered the way fans relate to music.
- Increasingly, games are also seen as a significant distribution platform in their own right. In its first week, Motley Crue’s 2008 single “Saints of Los Angeles” sold nearly five times as many copies on Rock Band as it did on iTunes, and at twice the price. Next month, Pearl Jam plans to release its new album simultaneously on CD and in Rock Band.
- But last month Harmonix announced that it will license software tools and provide training for anyone to create and distribute interactive versions of their own songs on a new Rock Band Network, which will drastically expand the amount and variety of interactive music available.
- McCartney’s own musical beginnings weren’t too different from picking up Rock Band and pretending to be a star, he pointed out. “I emulated Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis. We all did.”

11 Jul 09

Book Review - 'How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll - An Alternative History of American Popular Music,' by Elijah Wald - Review - NYTimes.com

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He has set himself a deceptively simple task: to write about the popular music of the last century by concentrating on what was actually popular, and to figure out why people — not critics or historians but the people who bought the sheet music and the records, listened to the songs on the radio and went to the dances — liked it.
In doing so he ends up taking aim, for example, at the notion that mainstream pop music in the early 1950s was mired in white-bread mediocrity, as embodied by the likes of Perry Como, until Elvis Presley and company came along to rescue it. He doesn’t deny that rock ’n’ roll delivered a new energy and a new attitude, but he maintains that Elvis and Perry had more than a little in common — and he notes that plenty of teenage record buyers liked them both.