The 27 Club includes popular musicians, artists, actors, and athletes
who have died at age 27,
often as a result of drug and alcohol
abuse or violent means such as homicide, suicide,
or transportation-related accidents.
The term became widely known after Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994, with rock fans connecting his age to that of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin,
Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix – though it was notable to fans in the early 1970s when those four visionaries died within just two years of each other.
When Amy Winehouse passed away at age 27 in 2011, it attracted even more attention to the significance of the age. While the club has been largely connected to musicians,
it has expanded since, as many young actors and artists have lost their lives due to everything from addiction to suicide to freak accidents.
-Rolling Stone Magazine, Dec. 8, 2019 [1]
selling their soul to the devil in return for talent, fame and fortune starts back in 1930 in Robinsonville, Mississippi. 19-year-old Robert Johnson, an aspiring blues musician, was hanging out at a juke joint where legends Son House and Willie Brown were playing. Between sets, Johnson dared to pick up one of the musicians' guitars and attempted to play his own stuff, but the crowd wasn't having it. The club owners tossed Johnson out of the Robinsonville juke. Then one night, while House and Brown were playing another gig in Mississippi, in walks Robert Johnson with a guitar strapped to his back. House elbowed Brown and pointed mockingly at Robert. “Boy, now where are you going with that thing? To noise somebody to death again?” -medium.com [2]