1- French pop star Claude François - who penned My Way - was accidentally electrocuted when he tried to fix a broken light bulb while standing in a filled bathtub.
2- Ozzy Osbourne’s much acclaimed guitarist Randy Rhodes was killed when the light aeroplane he was a passenger in attempted a risky fly-past of Osbourne’s tour bus but crashed into the back of it.
3- Mamas and Papas star Cass Elliot is rumoured to have met an untimely end after choking to death on a sandwich in 1974.
4- Blues and R&B legend Johnny Ace went out in spectacular style playing Russian Roulette back stage at a concert in Houston, Texas on Christmas Day, 1954.
5- Taking a lead from Ace, Terry Kath, the original guitarist of jazz pop act Chicago accidentally killed himself while jokingly playing the same game in 1978. His last words were, ‘Don’t worry, it’s not loaded’.
6- Leslie Harvey, guitarist of Stone the Crows, was electrocuted on stage by a live microphone in 1972.
7- Keith Relf, guitarist for The Yardbirds, died four years later in similar circumstances while practicing his electric guitar. He sustained a fatal electric shock due to the fact that his axe wasn’t properly grounded .
8- Legendary Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro suffered a fatal heart attack in 1992, after suffering an allergic reaction to pesticide in his garden.
9- Cher’s other half Sonny Bono died after striking a tree while skiing in Nevada in 1998.
10- After dying of a drug overdose, country rock pioneer Gram Parsons’ body disappeared from the Los Angeles International Airport.
Maintaining his alleged promise, Parsons’ road manager Phil Kaufman and a friend managed to steal the star’s body from the airport and, in a borrowed hearse, drove Parsons’ body to Joshua Tree national park in California where he attempted to cremate it.
The pair were arrested several days later but got away with a $700 fine for burning the coffin, as stealing a body was not recognised as a crime in the state.
According to http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/17/the-top-10-weirdest-rock-n-roll-deaths-89520-20354341/
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