Original sentence: At the peak of the band's success and potential, Hynde kicked ex-lover Pete Farndon out of the group for drug problems.Two days later, 16 June 1982, Honeyman-Scott was dead of a cocaine overdose.While the band reeled, Farndon later overdosed on heroin and died on 14 April 1983
Edited sentence: As if presciently, that was what happened to the Pretenders.The word 'tragedy' is overused, but in 1982, at the peak of the band's success and potential, Hynde kicked ex-lover Pete Farndon out of the group for drug problems -- and two days later, 16 June 1982, Honeyman-Scott was dead of a cocaine overdose.While the band reeled and floundered, Farndon later himself overdosed on heroin and died on 14 April 1983, leaving the original, critically revered (and much loved) Herefordshire Pretenders as the world's all-time leaders in the grim rock 'n' roll death index, after less than three years of fame