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Podcast: MODERN MUSICOLOGY
Episode: #66 - The 27 Club
Description: The 27 Club
There have been a shocking number of artists who have all died at the same very young age, early into what was already a hugely successful and influential career, but should have been a long and legendary career. They are The 27 Club. We discuss the major figures that the public most associates with this club -- Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse -- but we bring in a bunch of other members as well, like artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of the Grateful Dead, D. Boon of The...