"Let It Rot" Calender of Death
Brighten up your bedroom with Michael Gray's CREEM Calendar Of Rock'n'Roll Demises! See at a glance who OD'ed on your birthday! And use its info to play Spot The Macabre Coincidences. (Example: note how bluesmen drop like flies in the period May 24-26! Note how Greenwich Village folk choose April '66 for suicide time! Notice how Brian Jones and Jim Morrison both die in water on the some day of the year!!!)
"Let It Rot" Calender of Death
Michael Gray
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Brighten up your bedroom with Michael Gray's CREEM Calendar Of Rock'n'Roll Demises! See at a glance who OD'ed on your birthday! And use its info to play Spot The Macabre Coincidences. (Example: note how bluesmen drop like flies in the period May 24-26! Note how Greenwich Village folk choose April '66 for suicide time! Notice how Brian Jones and Jim Morrison both die in water on the some day of the year!!!)
The Calendar includes blues artists as well as rock people, because the connections between' the two are obviously strong; but it excludes jazz artists except where those concerned have sufficient fame to be known to all rock fans (e.g. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong). For your extra delectation, near-misses have also been included, as has the occasional nonrock demise where such demise is in line, as it were,, with rock'n'roll styles of departure (e.g. Stephen Foster, and Chopin).