Artists who announced their own death

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Conscious or not:

Kurt Cobain: I Hate Myself And I Want To Die
Notorious BIG: Ready To Die
Eddie Cochran: Three Steps To Heaven

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

John Denver: Rocky Mountain High

Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

Gérard Grisey, Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

Jacques Brel numerous times

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:15 (seventeen years ago)

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yellowcard holds the text of a yellow card warning (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 27 November 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

Hongroe - Hanging Myself In An Oslo Basement

Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 27 November 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

Laura Nyro - And When I Die

sonofstan, Thursday, 27 November 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

I'm assuming the thread is referring to artists who write a song announcing their own death and then die shortly afterwards, and not just to artists who merely write a song announcing their own death

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2008 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

Warren Zevon--Keep Me In Your Heart

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 27 November 2008 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

x-post to Ich Bin etc....
oops, yes, i guess so.
OK, Robert Johnson then - Me and the Devil Blues?

sonofstan, Thursday, 27 November 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

I believe there were a couple of subtle hints in Queen's "Innuendo" album.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 28 November 2008 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

(And of course a whole lot in the "Made In Heaven" songs, but they weren't finished until long after Freddie had died)

Geir Hongro, Friday, 28 November 2008 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

Marc Bolan - the line about pulling foxes from a tree in "Solid Gold Easy Action". The registration of his Mini was FOX something, and it had to be pulled from a tree.

bham, Friday, 28 November 2008 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

oh come on do i have to say it?

2Pac

psychgawsple, Friday, 28 November 2008 11:18 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, he's always doing that.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 28 November 2008 11:33 (seventeen years ago)

rappers are always talking about their own deaths

psychgawsple, Friday, 28 November 2008 12:33 (seventeen years ago)

Ian Curtis's lyrics to In a Lonely place are pretty creepy.

dan selzer, Friday, 28 November 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

Nick Drake's "Black-Eyed Dog" was pretty portentious.

ellaguru, Friday, 28 November 2008 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

Patsy Cline - I Fall to Pieces

өөө (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 28 November 2008 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

GG Allin

Trip Maker, Friday, 28 November 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

Per Ohlin

Siegbran, Friday, 28 November 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

Peter Laugher--Me and the Devil Blues

Creepy version made even more creepy that he died a few hours after recording it.

kornrulez6969, Friday, 28 November 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

doesn't gg allin own this thread?

Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 28 November 2008 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

The last song Louis Prima recorded was called "I'm Leaving You".

everything, Friday, 28 November 2008 21:19 (seventeen years ago)

Nikki Sudden performing an acoustic version of the song 'Death Is Hanging Over Me' at NYC's Cake Shop on Mar 24 2006, just 40 hours or so before his death:

east3500oakl✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧ (unregistered), Friday, 28 November 2008 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

Darby Crash "We Must Bleed"

Nate Carson, Saturday, 29 November 2008 00:00 (seventeen years ago)

Hank Williams - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
Jim Reeves - Distant Drums

dad a, Sunday, 30 November 2008 03:36 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, oh, oh, Elliott Smith but I can't remember the line.

ɔɐuɐɯlV uɯnʇnV (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 30 November 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

Re Hank: Chuck Willis' double-sided "What Am I Living For"/"Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes."

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 30 November 2008 09:55 (seventeen years ago)

Though I dunno if I think of those as an "announcement" as just really, really unfortunate choices of final (in life) single.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 30 November 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

But then I go back and read "Conscious or not."

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 30 November 2008 10:34 (seventeen years ago)

Plz to fix plural disagreements in above post.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 30 November 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)


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