When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain\'s mother named the 27 Club.
Instead, a clear and compelling narrative emerges, one based on hard facts, that unites these lost souls in both life and death..
The fantasies, half-truths, and mythologies that have become associated with the Club are debunked.
In a grimly fascinating journey Through the dark side of the music business, Sounes uncovers a common story of excess, madness, and self-destruction.
In this haunting book, author Howard Sounes conducts the definitive forensic investigation into the Lives and deaths of the six most iconic members of the Club, as well as some lesser known members, to discover what, apart from coincidence, this phenomenon signifies.
All were 27.
All were dissipated.
All were talented.
Kurt\'s mom was referring to the extraordinary roll call of stars who died at the same young age, including Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison of the Doors.
I told him not to...
Now he\'s gone and joined that stupid club, she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide.
When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain\'s mother named the 27 Club
