The Price of Fame

27 club curse

Hello everyone and welcome to Creepy Café, where I tell you a spooky story while we drink together a cup of coffee.

Today’s drink is an Americano because today’s story focuses on some of the greatest musicians in America. Our creepy story today talks about the price that the biggest rock stars in the history of Hollywood had to pay for their fame and fortune.

Some of the members of Club 27
Source: Anom Alien

27 club is a list of celebrities and musicians who have died extremely young at age 27. Normally, their deaths came from their lifestyle. Obviously, when you're a celebrity in Hollywood, there are a lot of drugs and alcohol involved. There are some that are suicides homicides or freak accidents.

Robert Johnson
Source: Rolling stones 

The first person who joined the 27 club is Robert Johnson born in 1911 and died on August 16th of 1938. He was an American blues singer and songwriter, and he was murdered. The cause of death was poison.

Now, there are over 60 ‘members’ of the 27 club, most notably Amy Winehouse. Her personal assistant Alex Haynes claims that Amy told him that she reckons she would soon be joining the 27 club of rock stars who died at that age she had a feeling that she was going to die young. When she was found her blood alcohol content was more than five times the legal limit. There are so many more; Kurt Cobain, Alan Wilson, Dave Alexander, Pete Ham, and Chris Bell.

Dockery Plantation
Source: Learn guitars

Many people think it's more than a coincidence that these people died at the age of 27 and there are several theories about how the club was created? Some people think that these musicians have sold their souls to the devil for fame and fortune, and that they knew that they would die at 27.  They believe that Robert Johnson had no talent, but was determined to achieve success. So one night a voice told him to visit the crossroads by Dockery Plantation at midnight. He was met by a large black man who apparently told him that he was the devil in disguise. The big man took the guitar from Johnson tuned it the devil offered him the guitar in exchange for his soul and Robert Johnson returned to the plantation with the magic guitar and became a blues master overnight.

This brings us to the end of this spook story. I want to hear your opinions. Do you believe in the 27 club? 

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