The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 791: The Last Hours of…

At some point, all of us will shuffle off this mortal coil and join the choir invisible. It doesn’t matter who you are, how much money you have or how famous you might be. In the end, we all die.

This really hits home when musicians we love disappear under the cloak of the Grim Reaper. It’s not like we personally know these people, but because their music helps us know ourselves, a little piece of them dies with them.

The circumstances of their passings vary: misadventure, accidents, overdoses, suicide. Some can be explained away while the circumstances of others will forever remain a mystery. With that in mind, let’s take a look back on the last hours of some musicians who left us too soon.

Songs heard on this week’s show:

Sid Vicious, My Way

Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart

Nirvana, I Hate Myself and Want to Die

Blind Melon, Change

Alice in Chains, Died

Amy Winehouse, Rehab

STP, Dead and Bloated

Soundgarden, Black Hole Sun

Official Creator of Playlists™, Eric Wilhite, put this together for us.

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