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Posted - 02/09/2011 : 18:48:29
Has anyone read this book?
(of course, we may be able to find some artists that died at the same age and do the same thing--but really, so many?!...but the Brian Jones, Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin deaths is what really started it all..Robert Johnson is regularly included.)
Some purists put the Club a just five with Kurt Cobain joining, but there are many more! And now Winehouse.
The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll
The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll is a non-fiction narrative that tells the history of rock & roll seen through the lives and legacies of 34 musicians[1] who each died at the age of 27 (also known as the 27 Club).[2] The 27s was created by Eric Segalstad (author) and Josh Hunter (illustrator). It was independently published, and distributed by Random House.[3] The 27s won silver in the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award for Popular Culture.[4]
The book was intended as equal parts music history book and visual journey, and weaves the lives of Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and more than two-dozen other musicians into a narrative. Josh Hunter told Huffington Post that, "The artwork tells its own story as well. There are these other layers, these hidden symbols and cryptic messages that, if you're alert to them, you're going to find we're packing-in as well." [5] In addition, The 27s feature twenty-two original portraits. The book's creators gave an example on how the art added more to the story in an interview with WNEW: "We wanted visual stimulation. The art correspond with the words here, supporting the story, visualizing it in an artistic interpretation. Then there are times when the art tell a different story or add to the words. Around Brian Jones' death in The 27s there's a photo of a freshly dug grave adorned with flowers. The overlay of white butterflies is an example of the latter. It tells a story about Brian's death that's not described using words."[6]
The book's storyline snakes through the history of rock in a largely linear fashion (although The 27s can also be read at random),[7] albeit with detours into the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche as it applies to music, numerology, astrology, and the findings that more rock stars have died at 27 than at any other age.
[edit] The 27s in the book
* Alexandre Levy
* Louis Chauvin
* Robert Johnson
* Nat Jaffe
* Jesse Belvin
* Rudy Lewis of The Drifters
* Malcolm Hale of Spanky and Our Gang
* Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones
* Alan Wilson of Canned Heat
* Jimi Hendrix
* Janis Joplin
* Arlester "Dyke" Christian of Dyke and the Blazers
* Jim Morrison of The Doors
* Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of the Grateful Dead
* Roger Lee Durham of Bloodstone
* Wallace Yohn of Chase
* David Michael Alexander of The Stooges
* Pete Ham of Badfinger
* Gary Thain of Keef Hartley Band and Uriah Heep
* Helmut Köllen of Triumvirat
* Chris Bell of Big Star
* D. Boon of the Minutemen
* Pete de Freitas of Echo & the Bunnymen
* Mia Zapata of The Gits
* Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
* Kristen Pfaff of Janitor Joe and Hole
* Richey James Edwards of Manic Street Preachers
* Fat Pat
* Freaky Tah of Lost Boyz
* Sean McCabe of Ink & Dagger
* Maria Serrano Serrano of Passion Fruit
* Jeremy Michael Ward of De Facto and The Mars Volta
* Bryan Ottoson of American Head Charge
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Reviews and interviews
* Segment on NPR’s All Things Considered
* Interview on Vermont Public Radio with author Eric Segalstad
* Atlanta Journal of Constitution review and interview with illustrator Josh Hunter
* Huffington Post’s roundup of Book Expo America
* Interview in Seven Days with author Eric Segalstad
* Sugarbuzz magazine review and interview
* Review and interviews from the Missoula Independent
* Music Tomes interview with Josh Hunter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
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