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Something Nick and I were talking about at the weekend: where are all the dead rock/pop stars? We've both been to Père Lachaise and seen Jim Morrison's place of rest (if he can actually rest with all those Doors fans trampling on his roof and laying tasteful arrangements of fag packet, single red rose and note scribbled on a sheet of lined A4 on his headstone). John Lennon, he says, is in a secret plot that only Yoko knows about and Kurt Cobain was carried about in a rucksack for a while but what about the rest? Whither Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, the Buckleys et al? Have you ever visited any of their graves?

― Madchen, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hendrix *WAS* somewhere in Seattle, but I think he's since been exhumed and moved. Some of the Lynard Skynard guys were moved after someone attempted to dig'em up. Odd, eh? Supposedly, a goodly percentage of Sid Vicious is in the conditioning vents of either Heathrow Aiport or JFK International Airport after Sid's mom dropped the urn. Lovely.

― alex in nyc, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Benjamin Franklin I think is here in boston. Does he count?

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Graves of the famous can be located at this very tasteful site. They have 1096 musicians listed.

― kevan, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Uh, not rock and roll, but Gene Krupa is buried about a mile from where I grew up. That's our claim to fame: Gene Krupa lies here.

― Kerry Keane, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't normally approve of going to see the graves of people you admire, but I have seen Sandy Denny's grave (Putney Vale Cemetery, south-west London).

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Isn't Edith Piaf's not far from Morrison's, at the Columbarium? A much more restful setting--my favorite place in Paris besides les egouts.

― X. Y. Zedd, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

cobain is buried somewhere in courtney's handbag, near the tampons i think.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I've been to Nick Drake's grave, which is in Tamworth-in-Arden. There's a sign above it requesting that people only floral tributes, which begs the question- what have people been leaving? *ahem*

Of course, the solemn pilgrimage was rather marred by the fact that we ended up laughing at the unfortunate John Haddon Onions a couple of rows down.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

good e-mail address!

― gareth, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Indeed. A Fall reference, Emily?

I suppose it's easy, and a little lazy, to link Denny and Drake. I can well believe that some of the same people have been to both graves, though I suspect it'll be a long time before I visit Tanworth- in-Arden.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Indeed it is a Fall reference.

I've only recently (well, fairly) been introduced to Sandy Denny, but she does make a good addition to the charades-esque pub game 'People Who Died', if I remember correctly. Falling down stairs, was it not?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yes.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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