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Subtitle: A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
By: Howard Sounes.
Edition: First Da Capo Press Edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780306821684
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Rock musicians; Tod; Death; Rockmusiker; Singers; Biography
Other titles: Twenty Seven; History of the 27 club through the lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
Description: A history of the "27 Club" (music stars who died at 27), examining its six most iconic members.

Imagine a club that people are dying to get into-- literally! Sounes examines the lives of six musicians and singers who died at the age of 27, plus other music industry figures who died at that age, to discover what-- apart from coincidence-- this phenomenon signifies. He discovers a common story of excess, madness, and self-destruction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Life. Exit, Gate 27 ; The young Dionysians ; Daddy's girl ; The mad ones ; Success ; Kurt and Courtney, Amy and Blake ; Excess ; Distress; title: Death. In which Brian is entirely surrounded by water ; Nodding out ; The crack-up ; The secret house of death ; One little drink, then another ; The glass is run ; The dance of death.