Famous Junkies!

LOL, he may be on opiates there

 

no jim morrison of the doors or ray charles? im surprised. then samuel taylor coleridge was an opium head for a while. the velvet underground also.

 

jim was never really confirmed just suspected cuz his girlfriend pam liked the shit

 

Brad Nowell, I Get Tears In My Eyes When I Hear The Acoustic Version Of Pool Shark, If I Could Have One Wish I Life It Would Be To Meet And Jam With Brad,bud, And Eric

 

I wanted to read it I really did... but the text and lack of spacing, uhgggg.

 

Steve Stevens (Billy Idol)
C.C. DeVille (Poison)
Eddie Shaver
Tommy Bolin
Lowell George
Joe Pass

to name just a few more....

 

We already got a mention of Samuel Taylor Cooleridge - English Romantic poet, and hardcore opium addict, but I thought I'd qualify it: Once Cooleridge started, he never really stopped, and his opium habit was very distructive, both in his personal relationships (He became estranged from Wordsworth), and in his career (he never really wrote anything of acclaim during his opium binges).

Thats not to say he didn't live a good life and, most likely, enjoyed every minute he spent eating/smoking opium...

 

kurt cobain and steven drozd

beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

there are a lot of very beautiful famous heroin junkies. and not famous ones. it's one of heroin's most redeeming and intriguing qualities...

 

Jawny Thunders!!!!

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Obviously you haven't heard the song 'Spoon Man'?

 

What happened to my goddamn picture?

 

Lennon did more than just dabble. I heard that when he was shot they found a brick of china white 93 in his apartment

 

shannon hoon did a bit, but it's not what killed him. Everyone of the chili peppers, including hillel who died of it. almost any rock star in seattle in the early 90s. Artie Lange.

 

Boy George-Heroin
Hermann Goering-Morphine

 

Bella Lugosi was addicted to morphine.

 

Early jazz/blues musicians in general were pretty prone to opiates...ray charles as already mentioned, Billie Holiday was a pretty avid user of just about anything we just covered her in my history of jazz class, watched this youtube performance of hers and she looked completely torn up

 

Freddie Mercury

 

do you guys think thom yorke's done h?

 

jimi hendrix was not a junkie, he never shot heroin and only snorted it, never habitually and never became addicted. I read his biography

 

^also alduos huxley loved lsd and peyote. never did H