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However, when the final moment does arrive, even the most articulate can struggle to find the right words…” Read on to find out just what those words, right or wrong, might be.Īfter all the gun-murders, a needless self-inflicted death. And while some artists may kill themselves in achieving this, there are as many who might just die trying. “They spend their entire lives trying to create the perfect couplet, the lyric that will speak either to the faithful concert crowd, or perhaps just that one dedicated follower sitting alone in his bedsit, wishing he’d thought of it. “Rock musicians – bless ’em,” Simmonds writes. To that end, Jeremy Simmonds, London-based rock writer and author of The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns and Ham Sandwiches, which just hit shelves this month, has put together a list of famous last words - and we mean very last words - from some of our favorite musicians.
All those people out there venerating your image and hanging on your every word - you really have to choose your words carefully.