Chat It’s Fate — August 2017

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Family love:
Tragic ending

Bed fellow:
House ghost?

Blues singer:
Devil deal?

48 Chat it’s fate Compiled by Monica Cafferkey

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any rock legends
live life in the fast
lane – and die way
too young as a result.
Elvis, Amy Winehouse and Kurt
Cobain left this planet far too
early, but they’re making their
presence
felt.

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lues guitarist Robert Johnson, considered^
the grandfather of rock and roll, reportedly^
sold his soul to the Devil at a crossroads so that
he could taste fame and fortune.^
Johnson died on 16 August 1938 (the same^
day and month as Elvis) after drinking from a
poisoned bottle in a bar. He’s part of The 27 Club,
the long list of rock legends who died at 27,^
often as a result of drug abuse or violence.^
Members of this club include Kurt Cobain,
Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin,^
Brian Jones and Amy Winehouse.

Some


ghosts


are still


shaking,


rattling


and rolling


beyond


the grave


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n 11 February 2012, Whitney Houston, 48, was found dead in a hotel
bathtub in Hollywood.^
A month later, the singer’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown told Oprah, ‘I can
hear her voice and spirit talking to me’.
But rather than being scared, Bobbi was comforted by her mum’s spirit. She
added, ‘The lights turn on and off and I go, “Mom, what are you doing?”. I can still
laugh with her. Her spirit is strong. I feel her pass through me all the time.’.
Tragically, Bobbi was discovered face down in a bath on 31 January 2015,
and died six months later at the age of 22. She is buried next to her mother in
Fairfield Cemetery, New Jersey.

You can



t stop

rock
’n’ roll

Greatest love of all


Oh, Mama!

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ama Cass,
from The
Mamas & the Papas,
died on 29 July 1974,
following a heart
attack at 32.
Ghostbusters actor
Dan Aykroyd later
bought her Californian
home and experienced
exercise equipment
turning itself on. One
night, he even
felt a presence
get into bed
with him.

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