Thank you. I think this is one of the most often repeated legends.
Wow. Someone had some issues.
I’ll take him at his word, then. Like I did back in '89.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Albert Dekker. Makes Carradine look like a rank amateur.
http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/d/dekker/albert_dekker.htm
Claude François was arguably France’s biggest pop star in the 60’s and 70’s (think of a gallic Cliff Richards with better dance moves). He was known for his very energetic shows, hectic 24/7 work schedule and his extreme perfectionism. His death may not have been “bizarre” but it was definitely stupid and a result of said perfectionism.
While taking a bath a few hours before a TV show where he was schedulded to appear, he noticed that a light fixture on the wall wasn’t working properly. It seems that he decided that it had to be fixed right away.
Though ironically, per the terms of her will her body was fed to hogs and one of them choked to death on her. (It’s not in official counts, but my spirit guide Obladiobladiah assures me of its truth.)
Some other “things everybody knows about famous people’s deaths that aren’t true” from Cracked.
Steve Jobs’s death might not qualify as bizarre, but by some accounts it was needless, the result of his lifelong arrogant magical thinking to quote one writer. Had he gone with the conventional treatment of surgery and follow-up when the cancer was first discovered he probably would have survived as it was caught early and was a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is particularly treatable. He instead insisted on an alternative regimen during which time the cancer grew and spread.
Jeeez…I guess you can take the hippie out of the commune, but you can’t take* the commune out of the hippie as easy. :smack:
*and irradiate.
This will only be of significance to Brits of s certain age:
Rod Hull - Fell off his roof into a greenhouse whilst trying to adjust his TV aerial (at the age of 63). Emu was cleared of all involvement in the incident, and it wasn’t the roof of his windmill.
(This led to one of my favourite jokes of the time - What’s 3’ tall, brown, and sits in a corner, hissing? Rod Hull’s telly)
Does Natalie Wood get a mention, due to the amendment to her death certificate and the mysterious circumstances of how she ended up in the water?
Brian Jones - Rolling Stones guitarist. Though officially drowned in his swimming pool, rumours persist of foul play.
Robert Maxwell - Newspaper mogul (and thief). Believed to have stepped onto the deck of his yacht one night for a piss… his body found floating in the Atlantic some time later. (Yes, he really was Captain “Bob”, ha)
Butterfly McQueen died in an exploding kerosene heater accident, aged 84.
Haven’t heard the Captain Bob one - the one I always heard was
"What was Robert Maxwell last word?
“Roseglub”
She was living in a little shotgun house and a lot of people assumed she was impoverished, but she was actually very well to do; she’d signed checks that day totalling several thousand dollars to various charities (including “Freedom From Religion”- she was an out and proud atheist) and owned a lot of rental property including the much nicer house next door to her, but chose to leave very modestly.
Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl Who… trilogy, died unexpected of a heart attack after climbing the seven flights of stairs to his office because the elevator wasn’t working. He had just signed the contracts to have his books published, and did not live to see their astonishing fame.
Similarly, Jonathan Larson died unexpectedly the morning of the musical Rent’s first preview performance Off Broadway. Larson died of an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, in the early morning on January 25, 1996. New York State medical investigators concluded that if the aortic dissection had been properly diagnosed and treated, Larson would have lived.He had been suffering chest pains and also had nausea for several days prior to his death, but doctors at Cabrini Medical Center and St. Vincent’s Hospital could not find signs of a heart attack and so misdiagnosed it either as flu or food poisoning, and giving him something to make him vomit.
If a 17th century composer counts as a celebrity, Jean-Baptiste Lully died of gangrene after accidentally crushing his toe with the staff he used to beat time while conducting a performance of his Te Deum.
Sort of a “staff infection,” YUK YUK YUK.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Jimi Heselden.
nm. Lousy memory made me miss the joke.
Not really famous but Duncan MacPherson was a first round pick by was a first round draft pick by the New York Islanders. He never made the NHL and after being released in 1989, he went job hunting and sightseeing in Europe. Never arriving in Scotland as planned, a car he was using was found in Austria ski resort. Employees confirmed talking to him. 14 years later his body was discovered in a glacier.
Not a star, but Gus Sandberg was a catcher for two years with the Cincinnati Reds in the 1920s. In January 1930 he siphoned gasoline from his car and then checked the tank with a lit match. Blew up like Wil E. Coyote. His body was later cremated.
This was the guy who sang Amanda?
Not a celeb, but a celeb’s spouse: David Niven’s wife fell down the basement stairs and broke her neck while she, David and a group of friends were playing hide and seek in their home.
Yes, but the original post quoted said he’d been found “hung”.
It’s a joke, son.
Powers &8^]
Don’t you mean a wanker?