Thursday, September 20, 2012

Music Legends

  We all know that there are many music legends. Some of the most famous ones are Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Brad Nowell, Sid Vicious, and many more.
  A lot of the deaths were from over dosing, except Kurt Cobain from Nirvana who shot himself in the head on April 5, 1994. Some people still don't believe that he killed himself even though it's been 18 years. I personally think he shot himself. He was doing heroin and had many stomach problems, probably from the drugs, and had so much things going on in his head, he couldn't handle it. I think if he didn't kill himself and was still alive today, Nirvana would be one of the greatest rock bands, but instead Dave Grohl, the drummer and Krist Novoselic, the bassist, carried on with their music careers. Dave is now the lead vocalist for the Foo Fighter, and Krist has formed Sweet 75 and Eyes adrift.
  Jimi Hendrix was an amazing guitarist. He lived from November 7, 1942 until September 18, 1970 and just recently was the 42 anniversary of his death. His death isn't really confirmed yet, but he was found in his hotel room in London, with alcohol and sleeping pills. Some say his cause of death was overdose and inhalation on vomit. He was part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Band of Gypsy's, and Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. Before his music career, he got caught stealing cars and had the choice to go to jail or the army and he chose the army and served for a year in 1961. Not long after that his music career started and ended up getting signed because of his rendition on Hey Joe.
  Brad Nowell was the lead singer of Sublime. He lived from February 22, 1968 through May 25, 1996. Sublime wasn't as famous as they are now, back in the 80's. Brad tried to get Sublime famous in more places but ended up dying of a heroin overdose. He passed right before the self titled album came out and now Sublime is very famous. I'd say Nowell still accomplished getting Sublime famous even if he never got a chance to see how famous they are today.
  Sid Vicious was from the band, Sex Pistols. He lived from May 10, 1957 through February 2, 1979. Vicious was the bassist for the Sex Pistols after replacing the former bassist, Glen Matlock. Vicious wasn't a very good bass player, people said he didn't actually know how to play at all. Vicious was also pretty messed up on drugs. One night in 1978, him and his girlfriend, Nancy, were together and they were doing drugs afterwards Sid was accused of stabbing Nancy to death. Sid doesn't remember doing it but ended up going to prison for two months for assault. In 1979 Vicious ended up overdosing on heroin and dying.
  All of these music legends died really young, before they were thirty and if they were still alive today they'd still be great musicians. 
  


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