As I'm sure many of us know, 27 seems to be a bad age for musicians; quite a number have died at that young age--some by accident, occasionally by choice. Here is a morbid little list for all of us:

• Chris Bell (Big Star): car crash
• D. Boon (Minutemen): car crash
• Kurt Cobain (Nirvana): suicide
• Nick Drake: suicide (may have been 26; not sure)
• Les Harvey (Stone the Crows): Electrocuted
• Jimi Hendrix: drug overdose
• Robert Johnson: poisoned
• Brian Jones (Rolling Stones): drowned
• Janis Joplin: drug overdose
• Johnny Kidd: car crash
• Helmut Koellen (Triumvirat): poisoned
• Jimmy McCulloch (Wings): heart attack
• Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan (Grateful Dead): alcohol
• Jim Morrison (Doors): heart attack (oh come on--we know in the long run it was the drugs...)
• Gary Thain (Uriah Heep): drug overdose
• Jason Thirsk (Pennywise): suicide
• Al Wilson (Canned Heat): suicide

Oddly enough, I got a lot of this information from a "Christian" site about dead rock stars, saying how rock is the devil's music and we must all surrender our lives to Jesus and be done with that devil rock. If interested, it's at this site:
http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html

Personally, I'm not interested except for the stats on the dead.