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Leslie Carter

Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died o...

John McIntire

Died February 16th 2012 manager of the Grateful Dead in the 1970s and 1980s, died of natu...

Whitney Houston

Died February 11th 2012 in a Beverley Hills Hotel Room

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Myths, Mysteries, Legends and Lore

The Death of a Pop Princess By Ulrike Putz in Beirut After Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim was stabbed to death in her Dubai apartment, clues led back to the most elevated economic and political ...

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In the Mood for a Mystery?

Big Band leader Glen Miller, known for such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo and In the mood, was in Britain entertaining the troops. On the evening of December 15th 1944 ...

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The Wizard of Floyd

Does the album Dark side of the moon sync with the movie The Wizard of Oz?. Click the link to see for yourself, an altered state of conciousness wouldn't hurt The ...

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Who Killed Kirsty MacColl?

Kirsty was an english singer/songwriter who scored some success in the eighties, most notebaly the sone "they don't know". She also sang with The Talking Heads, the Pogues and the Smiths. On ...

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The Million Dollar Quartet

In the afternoon of December 4th 1956 Elvis Presley visited sun studios, with then girlfriend Marilyn Evans and ended up listening to Carl Perkins latest record. Elvis then joined Perkins in the ...

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The 27 Club

A remarkable number of performers have died at the ripe old age of 27! Here is a link ...

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The Death of Grunge

Between the summers of 1993 and 1994 the grunge scene in Seattle would be rocked by the deaths of no less than 4 individuals. The murder, rape and brutal beating of Mi...

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Where is Richey Edwards ?

Richey Edwards was the former guitarist of the British Band Manic Street Preachers. Richey Disappeared in late January 1995 his car found abandoned at a popular suicide spot. The following is an ...

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Biggies Last Drive

Christopher George Latore Wallace was a really big star in the rap world...really. Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, as he was known, weighed in at over 350 lbs yet his stature ...

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Eat A Peach

Is the image of a peach truck on the Allman Brothers album, released in february of 1972, a cryptic reference to the death of Duanne Allman? The Late great Duanne Allman ...

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I Die, With a little help from my friend

Dwayne Goettel was the keyboard player for the Canadian industrial band Skinny Puppy. Dwayne was living with his parents in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in order to clean himself up from a heavy heroin addiction. On ...

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Blue Bird Café

The Blue Bird Cafe and the Wagon Wheel Country & Western bar were located In downtown Montreal on Union Street between Ste Catherine and Rene Levesque streets. On the night ...

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Beatles Crime Busters?

The author B.F. Henry of the Washinton Post wrote the only good thing about the beatles 1963 Ed sullivan show was the fact that not a single hub cap was stolen in Am...

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The Curse of Buddy Holly

One of the most famous Rock and Roll curses is the Buddy Holly curse. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959. The ...

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Paul is Dead

In 1969 rumors began spreading across university campus's that Paul McCartney was dead!Not only was he dead but those sneaky Beatles hadn't told anyone about his death and merely replaced him wit...

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Elvis Dead or Alive

Almost from the minute he died the rumours began about him living in seclusion somewhere in the world. Elvis sightings reached a peak in the early eighties culminating in a ...

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The Disappointing Death of Darby Crash

Darby Crash was the punk singer for the band The Germs. Darby craved fame and sought it out at every turn. On December 7th 1980 Darby Crash overdosed on heroin, ...

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