Lets not delve past Rock's A list , to that ever longer Rock's B list of forever forgottens.
Ike Turner
Janis Joplin
Michael Jackson
Kurt Cobain
Sid Viscious
Brent Mydland
Dee Dee Ramone
Tommy Bolin
Jimi Hendrix
Amy Winehouse
Whitney Houston
Bon Scott
John Entwhistle
Elvis Presley
Jim Morrison
Gary Thain
But number the thousands of wannabees that carked it in a crack-house in Menlo Calif, or Warribee, Vic, or a Maccers car park in Logan, Qld, or an OD in Plumpton of an ice/oil bundle/bungle of kids having barely mastered the chords to the main rif to 'a stairway to heaven'.
And then to the kids that never got passed a triangle in the third grade... the hopefuls. To the 7500 benzodiazepine deaths last year in the US Or maybe the 5500 US coke heads who never made it., and the just over 10000 heroins addicts who died in the US last year alone. And now ice OD surges to second spot in the US & here
That's 2015 alone.
Not the full tally of the 50 years that preceded it. What the? About a million people dead?
You think maybe less than half had once thought "Oh how cool!" So lets take a hit, and make it to the mosh pit?
Just a good hit, and then the music man.