Wasted Lives and Wasted Dreams–The Truth of “Forever 27″

Originally posted on The Witching Hour:

Talk about a club where people are dying to get in….(yeah, that WAS pretty lame).

The 27 club or “Forever 27 curse” is a rather morbid curiosity in rock and roll folklore. While it technically was many years in the making, it is actually more a product of the entertainment TV/Internet age. According to rock and roll biographer Charles Cross in an article published at Seattle PI (February 22, 2007), a comment made by Kurt Cobain’s mother shortly after his...