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Those who gain recognition for their creative work often have a dark side. The tortured artist may be a stereotype, but it's an accurate one! Many famous songwriters, rappers, authors, and composers throughout history have written about their deaths at length. Spookily, some of what they said came true. These deep thinkers are more likely than most to ponder their own deaths, but some of these coincidences are just too creepy.
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Long before he made it big, Jimi Hendrix recorded a song called 'The Ballad of Jimi.' In the song, he talks of his own death, singing that his memory will live on after he's gone. He even mentions "five years" in the song, and sure enough he died of a drug overdose almost exactly five years later.
Jim Morrison of The Doors frequently sang about death, and was said to have a gift for prediction: he predicted the rise of electronic dance music back in 1969. He was shaken when his friends and fellow rock stars Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died one month apart in 1970.
The death of these two musicians at the age of 27 started the infamous '27 club.' Morrison commented to friends one night “You’re drinking with number three. That’s right, number three.” Morrison died of a drug overdose in Paris nine months later, at the age of 27.
Multiple sources say that a 14-year-old Kurt Cobain told classmates that he'd be a rich and famous rock star, and that he'd die in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix. Both Hendrix and Cobain died at the height of their careers at age 27.
Movie star James Dean got into racing cars shortly before his death. In an interview a few months before he died, Dean stated that he thought driving on the highway was far more dangerous than driving on a race track.
Dean said, "Take it easy on the highway, the life you save may be mine.” A short time later, he was killed on the highway when another driver suddenly crossed in front of him and caused him to crash his Porsche.
Legendary songwriter John Lennon famously sang about living on borrowed time in a song he wrote just months before his death. He was assassinated in front of his apartment building in 1980.
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last speech, titled 'I’ve been to the mountain top,' in Memphis on April 3, 1968. In the final lines, he said that he'd like to live a long life, but that it was no longer his priority.
Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, the same day that Halley's comet passed the Earth. This phenomenon only occurs once every 75 years or so. Speaking about his own existence in relation to the comet, he said, "Now there are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together." He did, in fact, die at the age of 74, one day after Halley's comet passed Earth again.
Mental illness and suicidal thoughts plagued multiple generations of the Hemingway family. Ernest Hemingway was saddened when he learned that his father had shot himself, but wrote that he'd probably go the same way. Thirty-three years later, he took his own life with a gun.
In January of 1959, Buddy Holly and his wife Maria both awoke from horrible nightmares at the same time. Though the details were different, both dreams involved panic, an airplane, a farm, and a scenario in which Holly left his wife.
A Discovery+ docuseries called 'The Diana Investigations' is taking an in-depth look at the tragic death of Princess Diana. The Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash while being chased by paparazzi in Paris on August 31, 1997. There have long been conspiracy theories that her death was not an accident, and was in fact staged by the royal family due to the breakdown in relations following her divorce from Prince Charles.
Whether accidental or not, it appears that Diana saw it coming. In a 1995 letter to her legal advisor Victor Mishcon, now known as the “Mishcon Note,” she makes a chilling prediction about the circumstances of her own death. Diana writes that "reliable sources" warned her “that a car accident might be staged,” and that she would “either end up dead or be seriously injured.” She was described as paranoid and mentally unstable by those close to the royal family, but this particular fear was sadly close to the mark.
Soul singer Jackie Wilson was performing his song 'Lonely Teardrops' live in 1975 when disaster struck. Just as he was singing the words 'My heart is crying,' he grabbed his chest and collapsed on stage. The crowd applauded thinking it was part of the act, but it quickly became clear that he wasn't faking it.
Wilson had suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital, where he went into a coma. Sadly, he never recovered, remaining comatose for long periods or incapacitated for the rest of his life. He eventually succumbed to complications.
Lynyrd Skynyrd front man Ronnie Van Zant predicted his own death multiple times. He had commented that he would die with his boots on, and that he wouldn't live to see 30. He was right on both counts.
What's more, the band released an album that showed them engulfed in flame on the cover, as well as a song with the lyrics "Angel of darkness upon you” and “The smell of death surrounds you.” Three days later, Van Zant was in a plane crash that killed him and three of his bandmates.
Frank Pastore was a successful baseball player in the 1980s, who went on to have a career as a radio talk show host. On the day of his death, he talked about his love of motorcycles on the show. However, he complained that he could end up "spread all over [Interstate] 210" if other drivers cross into his lane without indicating. Later that same day, he was killed in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 210 after a car drifted into his lane.
Pete Maravich was an NBA legend, earning the nickname "Pistol" Pete. In an interview, Maravich told a reporter, “I don’t want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack at the age of 40.” His NBA career lasted for 10 years, and he died of a heart attack in 1988 when he was 40 years old.
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg was a very troubled person. He lived with a condition called triskaidekaphobia, which involves a fear of the number 13. He was convinced that he would die on the 13th of a month, and in the end he died on Friday the 13th.
Rock star Warren Zevon wrote the song 'The Factory' in 1987. It told the story of a factory worker who died of lung cancer. Zevon himself had never worked in a factory, but years later he was diagnosed with a form of lung cancer caused by asbestos poisoning and typically associated with factory workers. It led to his death in 2003.
Mikey Welsh was the guitarist of the band Weezer. In 2011, he wrote on Twitter that he had “dreamt I died in Chicago the weekend after next (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.” Two weeks later, he died of a heart attack caused by a drug overdose in his Chicago hotel room.
Sources: (History 101) (Ranker) (BBC)
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Those who gain recognition for their creative work often have a dark side. The tortured artist may be a stereotype, but it's an accurate one! Many famous songwriters, rappers, authors, and composers throughout history have written about their deaths at length. Spookily, some of what they said came true. These deep thinkers are more likely than most to ponder their own deaths, but some of these coincidences are just too creepy.
Click through the following gallery to see which celebrities foreshadowed their own demise.