And another one bites the dust.
February 11th, 2012 by Bookslinger
Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Margaux Hemingway*, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Oh, ye fair ones!
(*I was going to list just singers, but I had a crush on Margaux. She was just a few years older than I, and I loved how she didn’t pluck her eyebrows.)
My name’s Bookslinger, and I’m an alcoholic. (“Hi Bookslinger!”) It’s been 10 years since I’ve had a drink…
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Filed under: We transcend your bourgeois categories | Tags: addiction, art, atonement, death
February 11th, 2012 19:24:38
John Mansfield
February 13, 2012
The list above corresponds with my impression when the Houston headlines showed up: A show biz trend of the ’60s and ’70s that hadn’t been seen so much for a couple decades is making a comeback.
Bookslinger
February 13, 2012
If you count lesser luminaries, or other genres of entertainment (aside from singers), the trend never went away.