At the time Brian died there was no widespread public awareness that his position in the Stones had become contentious, or of exactly why he had left the group a month previously. Information about the split is largely based on the unfavourable testimony offered up by celebrity witnesses, most no...
By ‘stupid club’, O’Connor meant the phenomenon of musical stars who had passed away – as had her son – at the age of twenty-seven, as though they were unable to cross that bridge into full adulthood that lies ahead of all of us in our late twenties. Other members of Wendy O’Connor’s ‘club’ inclu...
It was one in which the three participants involved – Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison – seem, with the benefit of cruel hindsight, to have been brought together by fate. Located at 301 West 46th Street, The Scene was New York City’s hippest club-sized venue of...
In terms of contemporary culture, he is also the first on the list of immensely influential young men and women apparently fated to die at the age of twenty-seven following a ferocious flourish of talent. However, Robert Johnson was murdered; with the possible, and unlikely, exception of Rolling ...