Punk war mit seiner Affinität zum Leben außerhalb der Regeln und Konventionen der Gesellschaft schon immer dafür prädestiniert, mehr Opfer zu fordern. Kaum ein Punkmusiker aus den 70ern, der Drogen und Alkohol fern geblieben wäre (bis Ian MacKaye in Washington straight edge auf den Plan setzte). So hatte Punk bereits in seiner Hochphase die ersten Verluste zu beklagen, aber es war schon überraschend, wie viele der Heroen von 76/77 (oder die einst dafür die Grundlagen legten) im zu Ende gehenden Jahrzehnt sich verabschiedeten. Die meisten starben übrigens eines „natürlichen Todes“, nur wenige gingen den Rockstarweg. Nur Iggy, der ist immer noch unterwegs.
In diesem Sinne:
I miss you more than all the others /
and I salute you brothers.
2000
Ian Dury (57, Krebs): Ian Dury & The Blockheads.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihr4ODx3Gl0[/youtube]
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
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2001
Joey Ramone (49, Krebs): The Ramones.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoO5nkxT_4[/youtube]
Joey Ramone: What A Wonderful World
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2002
Joe Strummer (50, Herzfehler): The Clash
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpFyFXoONIg[/youtube]
The Clash – White Man In Hammersmith Palais
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Dee Dee Ramone (49, Heroin-Überdosis): The Ramones
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5v29J0HLOU[/youtube]
The Ramones – Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
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2004
John Peel (65, Herzinfarkt) : DJ & Punk-Förderer
Johnny Ramone (55, Prostatakrebs): The Ramones
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx0rwtVDi1I[/youtube]
The Ramones: Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Roger Johnston: The Monks
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5iI0__9S1c[/youtube]
The Monks: Monk Chant
2005
Hasil Adkins (67, von Auto absichtlich überfahren)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2AleuLVtE4[/youtube]
Hasil Adkins: Chicken Walk
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2006
Nikki Sudden (49, Herzinfarkt): Swell Maps
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxDoC_1DPrg[/youtube]
Swell Maps: Read About Seymour
Grant McLennan (48, Herzinfarkt): The Go-Betweens
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p9lNUHM_pc[/youtube]
The Go-Betweens: Lee Remick
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2007
Tony Wilson (57, Krebs): Gründer des Labels Factory Records (Heimstatt von Joy Division, New Order und vielen mehr)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JfXzvCrn9c[/youtube]
aus 24Hr Party People: Tony Wilson trifft Gott.
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2008
Dave „Day“ Havlicek (66, Herzinfarkt): The Monks
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwO71Jfz0Z4[/youtube]
The Monks: Complication
Frank Navetta (46): The Descendents
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVtij67Wag[/youtube]
The Descendents: I’m Not A Punk
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2009
Lux Interior (62, aortic dissection): The Cramps
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HSO1F7zHM[/youtube]
The Cramps: Garbage Man
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Rowland S. Howard (50, Krebs): The Birthday Party
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I2vEcVC_I[/youtube]
The Birthday Party: Nick The Stripper
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Ron Asheton (60, Herzinfarkt): The Stooges
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRkJzVQBP0[/youtube]
The Stooges: No Fun
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Jim Carroll (60, Herzinfarkt): Jim Carroll Band
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKoU_W_mf8[/youtube]
Jim Carroll Band – People Who Died
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Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD’d on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others
And I salute you brother
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys‘ Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchen proof
„Hey,“ Herbie said, „Tony, can you fly?“
But Tony couldn’t fly, Tony died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by rattin‘ on some bikers
He said, „Hey, I know it’s dangerous, but it sure beats Riker’s“
But the next day he got offed by the very same bikers
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD’d on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others
And I salute you brother
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
