Underrated music deaths

Gram Parsons

Jon Nödtveidt
Audie Pitre

Bobby Fuller Four - "Let Her Dance"/"Another Sad & Lonely Night"

Bobby Fuller Four - "Keep On Dancing" (early version of "Let Her Dance")

Bobby Fuller Four ~ "Never To Be Forgotten"









The Mysterious Death -- or was it Murder? -- of Bobby Fuller

Johnny Ace an up and coming rhythm and blues singer had it all going his way until he shot himself on Christmas of 1954. For some reason Russian roulette is identified ,as the cause of his death. However two eyewitnesses tell a different story.

Big Mama Thornton’s bass player Curtis Tillman, who was in the room at the time said this in Wikipedia about his death:

It was widely reported that Ace killed himself playing Russian roulette.[4][5]Big Mama Thornton‘s bass player Curtis Tillman, however, who witnessed the event, said, “I will tell you exactly what happened! Johnny Ace had been drinking and he had this little pistol he was waving around the table and someone said ‘Be careful with that thing…’ and he said ‘It’s okay! Gun’s not loaded…see?’ and pointed it at himself with a smile on his face and ‘Bang!’ – sad, sad thing. Big Mama ran outta that dressing room yelling ‘Johnny Ace just killed himself!”[6]

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Pledging My Love

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Audie Pitre

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Yeah man. His death ended Acid Bath...which IMO would have been a lot bigger had he not been killed.

Tim Taylor-Braniac

David Byron - lead singer Uriah Heep

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Tug boat passed by and you can guess the rest.

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Go on...

Mark Sandman of Morphine dies onstage from a heart attack in Rome.

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Elliott Smith “apparently” committed suicide by stabbing himself in the chest after an argument with his girlfriend. “Apparently” because some believe it was murder.

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