{"id":987501460,"date":"2025-11-22T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/?p=987501460"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:07:32","slug":"the-mythos-club-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/blog\/the-mythos-club-27\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mythos “Club 27”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jim<\/p>\n

Anyone interested in rock and pop music has probably come across the term or the myth of the \u201cClub 27.\u201d The myth is based on the mysterious\u2014and often tragic\u2014fact that many prominent and popular musicians in pop, rock, and blues history died at the age of 27.<\/p>\n

The foundation of the myth can be traced back to the early 1970s, when within just two years, four immensely popular rock icons\u2014Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison of The Doors, and Brian Jones, co-founder of The Rolling Stones\u2014passed away. Over the decades, the myth has become a firmly established part of our popular culture and has been reignited time and again by the early deaths of musicians and other pop culture figures, such as Kurt Cobain (1994) and Amy Winehouse (2011).<\/p>\n

\"Robert<\/p>\n

In addition to the most famous members of the \u201cClub 27,\u201d the list also includes musicians such as: Robert Johnson \u2013 King of the Delta Blues, Alexandra \u2013 German chanson and pop singer, Alan \u201cBlind Owl\u201d Wilson \u2013 Canned Heat, Leslie Harvey \u2013 Stone The Crows and brother of Alex Harvey, Ron \u201cPigpen\u201d McKernan \u2013 Grateful Dead, Dave Alexander \u2013 The Stooges, Pete Ham \u2013 Badfinger, Gary Thain \u2013 Uriah Heep, Helmut K\u00f6llen \u2013 Triumvirat, Jacob Miller \u2013 Inner Circle, Pete de Freitas \u2013 Echo and the Bunnymen, Kristen Pfaff \u2013 Hole, Richey Edwards \u2013 The Manic Street Preachers, and many more.<\/p>\n

The myth of the \u201cClub 27\u201d has also been the subject of scientific research, primarily to gain insights into possible underlying risk factors. As is often the case with myths, they cannot really be explained rationally. What is certain, however, is that the fame of musicians associated with the \u201cClub 27\u201d tends to increase massively after their death.<\/p>\n

\"Jimi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone interested in rock and pop music has probably come across the term or the myth of the \u201cClub 27.\u201d The myth is based on the mysterious\u2014and often tragic\u2014fact that many prominent and popular musicians in pop, rock, and blues history died at the age of 27. The foundation of the myth can be traced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987501415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987501460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-the-club-27"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987501460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987501460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987501460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987501462,"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987501460\/revisions\/987501462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987501415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987501460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987501460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defcrue.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987501460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}