The shocking death seems to belong only to the young.
Rimbaud's poetic life ended at the age of 19, but he wrote that "my life was once a feast, where all hearts will blossom and all wine will overflow." ”
Cohen, 82, said calmly, "I'm too old... If I were to commit suicide at this age, or die of a drug overdose, it would only be a scandal. ”
In the history of pop music, there is a curse called the "27-year-old club" – those gifted beings seem destined to leave at the age of 27.
Here's an introduction to the members of the "27-year-old club".
"I'd rather be myself and be hated,
Also unwilling to disguise in order to cater to others. ”
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Cobain founded Nirvana in 1989, and they quickly rose to fame after releasing their second album, Nevermind, with the single Smells Like Teen Spirit becoming the "national anthem" of a generation.
He had a beautiful wife and daughter, but always struggled with the shadows of his childhood and turbulent personal life. On April 5, 1994, after overdoing drugs, attempted drug rehabilitation, and bizarre disappearances, Cobain put a 20-yard shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
An electrician found his body in Cobain's home next to a letter to Boddah— a friend he had imagined in his lonely childhood— ending with the words, "Instead of surviving, it is better to burn calmly."
"Forgive me when I kiss the sky"
Jimmy Hendricks
Jimi Hendrix
Recognized as the greatest electric guitarist in the field of popular music, Jimmy Hendricks uses his left hand to play the electric guitar to the extreme. In the eyes of many fans, it was the psychedelic sounds he created that brought modern rock into the world.
On September 18, 1970, Jimmy, who was with his girlfriend, took an overdose of sleeping pills. The pill, called Vesparax, is enough for just half a tablet to bring eight hours of sleep, yet no one knows how much he ate.
When Jimmy went to sleep, he had a poem he had just finished. The final chapter of the poem is "The story of life is fleeting, and the story of love goes from hello to goodbye until we meet again." ”
"I'm not crazy, I just love freedom"
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
On July 3, 1971, Gates lead singer Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in an apartment in Paris. The cause of death given by the police was heart failure, but no autopsy was performed.
Morrison's music has always been deep and dark, and the crazy performances on stage are like rebellions against pessimistic personalities: he often improvises and recites poetry in the middle of performances, and has also been arrested by the police for publicly exposing his lower body on stage.
When everyone saw him as a depraved lunatic, he chose to go into exile in Paris— like the poet Rimbaud whom he admired.
Today, Morrison is buried in the Paris-Priest Lachaise Cemetery, lying with Chopin, Wilde, Balzac and others. And those who love him prefer to believe another story — Morrison has fled to Africa under a pseudonym, as he sings in a tribute to Rimbaud: "Remember our days in Africa?" ”
"On stage, I had sex with twenty-five thousand people,
Then go home alone. ”
Giannis Joplin
Janis Joplin
In 1966, at the age of 23, Joplin joined the band Big Brothers. In just a few years, she redefined the female rock singer after Patti Smith with a low, harsh and thrilling voice.
As a child, Joplin often used painting and poetry to relieve the loneliness of being isolated. After being exposed to music, she responded with malice and contempt with a more violent and debauched attitude.
In her thirst for love and self, she indulges in drugs and makes casual love to strangers.
Leonard Cohen, who was anxious to become famous, wrote Chelsea Hotel No.2, describing a one-night stand with her. But afterwards, Joplin had to describe the relationship as "disappointed" and "slapped hard".
On October 4, 1970, Joplin, who had overdose, reached her limit and was rumored to have been smoking $200 a day in heroin before her death.
"When my family surrounds me, I am the happiest"
Amy Wynnhouse
Amy Winehouse
Amy debuted at the age of 16 and died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 27, leaving behind two albums of 20 songs.
In 2008, she won five Grammys in one night with the album Back to Black, and people remember her purity and uniqueness, as well as her brokenness and destruction.
Her money-hungry father squeezes her, her husband takes her to drugs and abandons her, and young Amy is not emotionally satisfied, drinking, taking drugs, self-harm, suffering from anorexia, and living as if she were only for a show.
In a 2009 interview, a reporter asked her, "Where do you think you'll go in years?" ”
Amy said without hesitation, "I've died in a place that no one knows." ”
"What to remember on your birthday is:
Forget the past, it cannot be changed,
Forget about now, because I haven't gotten you yet."
Brian Jones
Brian Jones
Jones, the Rolling Stones' first guitarist, recruited Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who were still in school, through newspaper advertisements, and founded the Rolling Stones.
Within a month of being forced to leave the band, he was found dead in his home pool.
"Punk is exactly what we do"
D. Boone
D. Boon
D. Boone, guitarist for the American punk band Minutemen, died in a car accident on Christmas Eve in 1985.
"I'm standing at a crossroads,
Trying to find a way out."
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson
The first member of the "27-year-old club", who has no name in his lifetime and left 29 songs, is one of the most memorable figures in the history of blues music. Legend has it that he died in a bottle of wine that looked like whiskey.
"I've always wanted to be a certain kind of person.
Now I've really done it, but I don't want to."
Kristin Burford
Kristen Pfaff
Hole bassist, died of excessive heroin intake.
Mystics believe that the number "27" symbolizes "the ascension of the soul to the Creator."
In a real and absurd world, these out-of-place young people are seen as geniuses and bastards, heroes and clowns. And their simple despair, their true selves, dissolve into a little illusion in the music.
Morrison, 27, said: "It's strange that people are afraid of death. The pain of life is deeper than death. And once death comes, the suffering ends. I guess it's like a friend. ”
Does the end of life mean some kind of higher freedom? What does it mean in your eyes to be truly alive?
Leave your answer in the comments section.
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Editors: Zed, Audrey Cai
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