The Death of Rock 'n' Roll

Site:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jlks/pike/DeathRR.html

Category:
Music

Review (in 1996):

Bizarre, messy, and early deaths are a long-standing rock and roll tradition, as pointed out at this site. (It's subtitled "Untimely Demises, Morbid Preoccupations, and Premature Forecasts of Doom in Pop Music.")

Untimely death, it suggests, is what ties Elvis Presley to the Rolling Stones to the Sex Pistols to Slayer. Offering excerpts from a book of the same name (for sale here, natch), it chronicles more than 50 dead rockers and still doesn't seem all-inclusive. But it is fascinating material.

Your morbid bone will be tickled with such blood-curdling tales as Billy Murcia (of the New York Dolls) drowning to death in coffee. And to cap off the surrealism, the site includes a photo of Elvis shaking hands with Richard Nixon. This is one of the few Web pages where heroin gets its very own link.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.