The 27 Club – Gone too soon who could have guessed

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Dead rockstars who died at age 27 are looked at as special.
Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and more.

Cut short mainly through drink an drugs. Janis Joplin had a great blues voice admittedly!👍
They called her ‘pearl, because she had a crusty exterior and lay on a bed of phlegm,
Brian Jones never got his swimming 50mtres certificate. All very sad talent cut short,blah,blah,bullshit.

They died having reached their artistic peak. Anything theyd of made after would of been shite. Think of Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, etc. You can see it in their eyes “Please wont someone end my misery?”

The 27 club checked out in time.I like to think of Morrison fondly as the fat, aggressive heavily bearded drunk that he aspired to be. The same with Mama Cass, beautiful voice and figure for radio, the Hattie Jaques of the hippy scene. Remember her as she was!
Happy and with her dinner all down her chin.

Nominated by – Miserable Northern cunt

(When submitting noms can you please make an effort with grammar and spelling, as well as throwing in the odd paragraph where appropriate! (Point 4 of our submission rules.)

We really don’t have the time or inclination to read and edit a wall of text, and neither should fellow cunters on publication. Such nominations in future will go straight in the bin. Cheers – The Admin Team)

 

68 thoughts on “The 27 Club – Gone too soon who could have guessed”

  1. Nothing leaves a rose tinted hue more than death.

    What’s true of musicians is true of writers as well. Those that die relatively young, like Jack Kerouac, are idolised. Those that live to old age often turn out shite in their dotage.

    And consider JFK as well. If he’d not been assassinated his legacy would quickly have turned to ashes in the Vietnam war he started.

    Advice to any creative talent – top yourself at 30 if you want a lasting legacy.

    • It was Johnson who escalated American involvement in Vietnam to all out war.

      Prior to Johnson’s presidency, Kennedy (and Eisenhower before him) had restricted American involvement to sending in ‘advisors’.

      It was Johnson who sent in ground troops, turning the place into a hellhole, Nixon continued the war unabated with his presidency.

      One of the reasons Kennedy was thought to have been assassinated was the belief that he was planning to abandon Vietnam, Afghanistan style.

      • According to Sam Giancana JFK was hit because he welched on a deal Joe Kennedy made with the Mafia to rig his election. (By making his brother Attorney General and targeting the Mob!). The Bay of Pigs thing was said to be part of the cover up story along with silencing the “patsy” (Oswald).

      • True enough, Ruff.

        But Kennedy famously told Walter Cronkite “I don’t agree with those who say we should withdraw” from Vietnam as it was “a very important struggle.” This suggests that Kennedy was ready to stay the course in Vietnam, with troops on the ground if necessary, in order to prevail.

        It’s only a counter-factual, I know, but it’s highly likely that Kennedy would have taken the same steps as Johnson, thereby tarnishing Camelot for history.

  2. On the whole, with exceptions like that smug cunt Geldof, popsters don’t do much harm. Perhaps it would be better if politicians checked out at 27 – then we would have been spared Biden in his dotage, the Princess Mandy etc etc. Dame Keir would have checked out in 1989, saving himself years of suppositories ………

  3. Here’s a musician who had his 28th birthday just a few weeks ago, therefore missing his opportunity to join the immortals.
    Stormzy……the artist formerly known as thief, pimp and low life drug dealer.
    It’s a tragedy.

  4. A fella I knew who played a fiddle thing in a folk band died when he 38…it was a shame…..a shame that he hadn’t followed the “27 club”‘s lead and fucked off 11 years earlier along with the rest of his catawauling bandmates.
    Several times I had to leave the Pub early to escape the “haunting,sweeping melodies”…selfish bastards.

    • I love talking shit with mates and acquaintances, playing billiards, playing darts and maybe chips and gravy or corned beef and mash. Live music fucking ruins that. Fuck off and go busk somewhere far away, the Ross dependency (NZAT) or Kabul for example.

      • Ive never been a big fan of live music either. When the band starts up it’s time to head for a different pub.

      • With you on that one Shackledragger.

        Our Xmas works do was at the Big easy in Fulham.

        The food was great, the beer was flowing and conversation was lively.

        And then some cunt decided it was time for the one man band to play the blues at ear splitting volume.

        We left 15 minutes later.

  5. Bullshit isnt it?
    They live wrecklessly, croak, and daft cunts worship them!
    His legacy lives on….
    Do me a favour!
    Hed of gone on to do Christmas albums, ballads and showtunes!
    That Kurt Cobain?
    Hed now be selling his arse singing Rudolph the red nosed reindeer for Christmas money.
    27? ….old bastards.

    AdminT
    Sorry about how bad it was written!
    Might of had a light ale?
    In the spirit of rock n roll ripped up the rule book!
    What am I rebelling against?
    Whatve you got?
    That sort of shite.😀
    I blame Jiminy Hendrix.
    Anyway apologies 👍

    (Thanks. That’s okay, MNC. Just don’t do it again otherwise we will send you a year’s supply of Analeez Dodd’s soiled underwear to your manor – Day Admin)

    • Don’t listen to them Miserable.

      I admire the cut of your penmanship. 👍

      Anyone who doesn’t is a philistine.

      PS: Hendrix rules!

      (Judging by his original submission, we’re not entirely sure he was holding a pen at the time! – Day Admin)

    • “When submitting noms can you please make an effort with grammar and spelling, as well as throwing in the odd paragraph where appropriate! (Point 4 of our submission rules.)”…….

      I await C.S in all his barristerial glory trundling into view….

      • Sorry to disappoint, Dick: or – de minimis – to “trundle into view” a touch late; I’ve been rather busy.

        Further, and in my own defence, I should point out that other than this I’ve never nominated anything.

        Whatever became of Nurse Cunty and Bertie Blunt, I wonder?

      • Evening CS.
        I miss both Bertie and Nurse Cunty.
        Hope they are well.
        Good posters both!

    • Trying hard not to imagine MNC sniffing the crotch of her undercrackers. And for whatever reason the great quote from Captain Kilgore (Apocalypse Now) comes to mind

      “I love the smell of her piss stains in the morning!”

      The Horror! The Horror!!

    • “we will send you a year’s supply of Analeez Dodd’s soiled underwear to your manor – Day Admin)”

      Two pairs? – you could still probably get away with a large 1st class stamp on the envelope! 🙂

      • Has MNC gone awol since his last post?

        You don’t think he’s fantasizing about Ms Dodds do you?

    • Sorry here as well admin. I must admit that lily the mong gave my monitor an early morning coffee facial, well that and the bevvies the night before as well. It put me right off my stroke and my cunting fell to bits. Mea Culpa and all that. Let the abuse commence.

    • She and that Pete Doherty had fallen out by the end.

      They were sleeping in separate gutters.

    • Not entirely sure what that cunt Frankie Boyle said some years ago about Winehouse. But it was something like ‘she has a face that looks like a campaign poster for neglected Horses’. He wasn’t wrong.

    • Always had a soft spot for Amy. Saw her in concert too (with the missus I should quickly add). Good entertainer and a great voice.

      Certainly far superior to some of the shite passing off as “artistes” in this age of Cunt Factor and Britain’s Got Fuck All Talent

  7. What’s the difference between Amy Winehouse and Captain Morgan?
    Captain Morgan comes alive when you add coke.

    • Harsh… harsh indeed…, nicking that one! 🤣

      Oy the agony!
      Oy the shame!
      To make Amy’s troubles
      Public fer a game?

      How could you do that Rob, such a terrible shanda!

  8. I notice that crooners tend to live much longer (even Dickie Valentine and Jim Reeves made it past forty). Ol’ Blue Eyes, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Andy Williams, Donald Peers, Clinton Ford (Who they? I hear the young cunts ask. Somewhat recherche examples I will concede)…My advice to musicians is, therefore, take a leaf out of the crooner’s book, take it easy. Budget label heaven awaits.

    Good morning MNC, good morning everyone.

    • Jim Reeves, was always my favourite crooner.

      When I was a kid my parents used to play loads of his LPs, along with Roy Orbison, Perry Como, Bing, Frank and Nat King Cole.

      I really wasn’t all that fussed about that lot back then. But when I listen to some of their albums via YT these days, it makes you realise what great, solid voices they had!

      • Agreed. It all seemed so effortless. Bet they worked fucking hard though.

      • In those days of course you didn’t have the editing facilities that “artistes” have today – if you ballsed up a song, you and the orchestra would have to take it from the top again. And again…and again. Editing was with a razor blade and a chinagraph pencil on metal oxide tape – the 78 era (yes I was around in those days), was even hairier. Poor old Winifred Attwell had it really bad as each side of one of her discs usually had a medley on it. Imagine a dozen takes of If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie from Elton John – he would have been through a dozen hissy fits in one three hour session.

      • @W.C.Boggs

        When you said “78 era” I thought you meant 1978. But you’re really on about the old 78rpm gramophone records from way way back in the day!

        Jeez, I didn’t realise you were that…err. old! 🙂

        Whenever I see that classic HMV logo of the old gramophone and Nipper the dog, I will always think of you now. 😉

      • “Jim Reeves, was always my favourite crooner.
        When I was a kid my parents used to play loads of his LPs”

        ‘kin ‘ell Techno; the very first piece of music I was conscious of – My Mum payed “I love you because,” on our teak veneered radiogram pretty much on rotation! Still hum the tune to this day.

    • Don’t forget fat Reg and Lilly mong. How old is Ed Sheeran? I wouldn’t mind if he dropped off before 27.

      • Techocunt: I was a bit too late for Regal Zonophone, but I have clear memories of buying (in my RN days when on home on leave ) a bright blue 78 of Don Lang & His Frantic Five doing the “Six Five HandJive” Normally HMV had staid black or maroon and labels, but this garish blue was for the “youngsters music” 6.5 referred to the first TV pop show. , Six Five Special, Don Lang played a mean trombone, but when not with Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray, he could be found on the Home Service as Gordon Langford, playing the piano in selections from Ivor Novello and the like – how we were hoodwinked into thinking those guys really were swingers!. Just like today pop was ephemeral the Hand Jive got half a dozen playings on leave, and a year later my mum (who hated my music) melted it down to make a bulb planter (they did things like that in the days before The Repair Shop) I am very old, externally, but I still feel about 25 mentally – I wouldn’t fancy doing a jive with Mrs Boggs these days – you would need legs like oak trees to push her along.

  10. “Karen off her food again”?
    Lazy fkin hippies, get a proper job and turn that racket down!
    In my experience musicians are all mental.

    • “…In my experience musicians are all mental.”
      Well it helps certainly, I can’t deny it.

  11. To think that ITV probably wouldn’t have existed today, if Philip Schofield had minced off to the great behind when he was 27. There doesn’t seem to be a show on that network that he won’t don his powder puff for.

    “Are you free, Mr. Schofield?”

    “I’m free, duckie!”

  12. Perhaps Paul Hardcastle should bring out a reboot of his old “19” song and call it “27” – doesn’t quite scan very well though.

    From “N-n-n-n-nineteen”
    to
    “T-t-t-t-t-Twenty Seven”

    But at least either song seems appropriate given the shitstorm similarities going on in Afghanistan compared to Vietnam (Can’t believe Hardcastle is 63 either!)

  13. If Fat Reg croaked just after releasing Yellow Brick Road I would of had more respect for the Fat Cunt.
    He is a perfect example if musicians over stay their welcome.
    Mind you. I was surprised when Keith Emerson blew his brains out. He was a hero of mine between the ages of 13 and 16

    • Sorry to drift the thread, but I have noticed Fat Reg has now been cunted 11 times. Should his fat arris not be gracing one of the walls above?

    • Fuck me yes -that really pissed me off – Emerson was the Man that
      made me take up keyboard playing. Such a sad loss.

      • So Keith do you use any effects on your keyboards? “Yeah 10 inch fucking stillettos and vodka!”

  14. Apparently Brian Jones was an excellent swimmer and a former lifeguard. I dare say he was drugged up or he possibly pissed off one of the workmen at Cotchford and they decided to give him a ducking. We will never know, of course. But that Tom Keylock (Stones employee, ‘fixer’, and minder to Jones) was a really shady cunt. No doubt about that. Paul Trynka’s book, Sympathy For The Devil, is the definitive book on Brian Jones. It debunks myths and explains the demise of Brian better and more detailed than any other of the ‘He was murdered!’ cash in books that have come out.

    This 27 Club thing is just coincidence and total bollocks. Keith Moon died at 32, so did John Bonham. And Karen Carpenter was around that age when she copped it. But there’s no 32 Club, is there?

    And the great Ian Curtis was only 23 when he left this world. Now there was a talent. Joy Division are still the best live band I ever witnessed.

    Also, has that horrible little cunt from the Manic Street Preachers been found yet?

  16. Technocunt and moggie63:

    Amazing what you can find on You Tube. I just found this – and my mind went back to Mr & Mrs. Renn’s Record Shop in Woolwich all those decades ago:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsMax1CaYU

    With age comes anec-dotage.

    You will be relieved to know I have given up jiving – it is sinful – or, at least, it was the way I used to do it.

  18. Julius Reubke didn’t even make it to 27. TB offed him when he was 24. However, his Sonata on the 94th Psalm is the pinnacle of German Romantic organ music. Makes Rheinberger”s 20 sonatas look like dross. Maybe the ARE just dross, no comparison needed.

  19. Robert Johnson (delta bluesman) was the original “27” clubber.
    Legend has it, he made a deal with the Devil, for his talent….

    Of course, like a certain esteemed “absent” cutter:

    “ I know naffink abaaaht it.”
    🤔

  20. I was still a virgin at 27 and since then have shown thousands of women how to enjoy sex.
    These drugged-up egotistical cunts weren’t big and weren’t clever. Most of them were ugly as sin.
    As far as I’m concerned, fuck off and good riddance!
    At least the uber-talented showman, Mark Bolan lasted until he was 29.(probably wasn’t even suicide)
    Mind you, if my father was that skull-faced Geordie cunt in “When the booyatt coombs in” i would have topped meself ages ago.

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