Greatest talent gone at age 27?

squeeb
squeeb Posts: 426
edited January 2011 in The Clubhouse
Who do you think was the greatest talent who died at age 27?
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2011
    I'm gonna have to go with Hendrix on this one! That's not to say that the others are chopped-liver?

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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited January 2011
    Hendrix for sure.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,391
    edited January 2011
    A vote for Jim Morrison here...
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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,532
    edited January 2011
    Who said any of the above listed are dead....?
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  • wayne3burk
    wayne3burk Posts: 939
    edited January 2011
    it's a dead heat....
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,391
    edited January 2011
    wayne3burk wrote: »
    it's a dead heat....
    :eek::rolleyes::rolleyes::tongue:...
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  • thesurfer
    thesurfer Posts: 574
    edited January 2011
    codyc1ark wrote: »
    Who said any of the above listed are dead....?
    There dead,, believe us,,
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited January 2011
    I have to go Hendrix. The other guys and gal would use Hendrix on an album to get better sales in either case.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    I'd also throw Ian Curtis in this too young category. Joy Division was pretty influential at that time and his writing was very emotional. Check out a movie called Control, it's a biopic and is very good. It's based on a book written by his wife Deborah Curtis, that I cannot recall right now.
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  • nguyendot
    nguyendot Posts: 3,594
    edited January 2011
    I think Cobain went out with a bang.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    edited January 2011
    I'm gonna have to go with Joplin. Some may not describe what she did as talent but I sure as hell dug it. Don't believe there's ever been anyone else like her before or after her as well. She was unique, one of a kind and had a style that was completely hers.
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,663
    edited January 2011
    Jimi Hendrix
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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited January 2011
    Hendrix!!!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited January 2011
    Tough call, I'll say Kurt, just because he is my favorite of the bunch - and he did one of the greatest things to music ever - the death of hair metal as soon as Nevermind hit the airwaves.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited January 2011
    Absolutely Hendrix.

    Anyone who thinks Kurt Cobain was more talented or close to as talented than/as anyone else on that list needs to have their head examined (IMO).

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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,501
    edited January 2011
    They were all games changers in one way or another, but I'm going to go with Hendrix.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited January 2011
    dorokusai wrote: »
    I'd also throw Ian Curtis in this too young category. Joy Division was pretty influential at that time and his writing was very emotional. Check out a movie called Control, it's a biopic and is very good. It's based on a book written by his wife Deborah Curtis, that I cannot recall right now.

    I'd say his music is now more influential than ever. Great call. And the movie was unbelievable (if not thoroughly depressing). Then again... he did hang himself ****SPOILER ALERT****** at the end.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited January 2011
    Well, he doesn't count, it's the dead at 27 thread, not the dead at 23. ;)
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited January 2011
    Hendrix,, just before his death,there was some dialogue between him and a soon to be stellar group,,could you imagine,,Ladies and gentleman,,,may I present,,Emerson,Hendrix,Lake and Palmer.Oh yeah.

    Actually is might have been HELP for their respective names.
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  • indyhawg
    indyhawg Posts: 1,642
    edited January 2011
    Hendrix.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2011
    Hendrix duh!
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