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The Top 5 Bizarre Rockstar Deaths

Rockstar’s love attention. Its almost a pre-requisite for the job. But its seems that rockstars always leave a lasting impression – deliberate or otherwise. So here it is, the Top 5 Rockstar Deaths (so far).

1. Terry Kath

When the seventies were drawing to a close, Terry Kath, guitarist with soft rockers Chicago, was at home polishing his guns. A self-confessed firearm fan, Kath was cleaning pistol when his safe thinking roadie asked if it was loaded. As if to prove some kind of idiotic point, Kath pointed the gun at his own head and pulled the trigger. Reportedly his final words were, “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded”…

2. Steve Took

A founding member of cock-rockers T-Rex, Steve Took spent his final years wandering around the streets in a drug fueled haze. Blowing any money he had on various drugs, Steve forgot the one thing that would ensure his survival – chewing his food before swallowing. Steve Took choked to death on a cocktail cherry in 1980.

3. Keith Relf

This is actually a surprisingly common death, and also the main reason bands employ roadies. The Yardbirds frontman was laying down some tunes in his home studio on day in 1976. He decided it was time to blast some sweet riffage so grabbed his guitar. What he failed to notice that his guitar was plugged in and was not grounded. When Relf touch the strings he created a circuit and lit up the studio like a May Day parade.

4. Jeff Poraco

Drummers. The know the difference between a drummer and a drum machine, right? You only have to beat the information in to a drum machine once…ahem… Mr Poraco, sticksman for the band named after the crappy little dog in the Wizard of Oz – Toto, was in is garden one fine day in 1992, when he decided to apply some pesticide to the lawn. Sadly for Jeff, he used the wrong type of pesticide, that triggered an allergy causing a fatal heart attack.

5. Johnny Ace

When your filming a TV show in Belgium, i’d imagine it gets pretty dull. Dull enough to play Russian Roulette? Well for Johnny Ace it was. Sometime in the 1950’s a clearly mental Ace was frolicking (?) with a gun backstage during a five-minute commercial break. He started by pointing the gun at his girlfriend, then at his friend. Unsatisfied with the lack of death, Johnny decided it would be a great idea to point the gun at himself. I expect the last thing he heard was, “And were on in 5…”

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