# You can revive one dead rock musician, with ONE condition...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 28, 2003, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-revive-one-dead-rock-musician-with-one-condition/204276 "2003-09-28T10:01:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-revive-one-dead-rock-musician-with-one-condition/204276/101 "2003-10-03T02:36:27Z")

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another vote for Jeff Buckley … what a talent he was!!!

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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-revive-one-dead-rock-musician-with-one-condition/204276/102 "2003-10-03T03:51:37Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DMark \*  
> \*\*Janis and Jimi would be nice, but I have to go with John Lennon.
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> Not only for the music, but he would have been a political voice to reckon with by now. Mayor Lennon of NYC? \*\*

Heh, there’s a time travel card game that speculates that given his survival, he would have become a Senator, led the charge to legalize pot, and, as an activist, stage a protest on the Challenger launch pad, preventing it from taking off and exploding.

So who knows? 🙂

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**Author:** ![terd\_ferguson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@terd\_ferguson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terd_ferguson)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-revive-one-dead-rock-musician-with-one-condition/204276/103 "2003-10-03T08:11:27Z")

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Lennon  
Sam Cooke

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-revive-one-dead-rock-musician-with-one-condition/204276/104 "2003-10-03T15:46:41Z")

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Without question, it’s have to be Kurt Cobain. **Nevermind** and RHCP’s **Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic** are what _finally_ got me interested in music while in high school. To be able to see if Nirvana would have withstood the passage of time…

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