David Comfort - The Rock and Roll Book of the Dead

1. Noel Redding and Carol Appleby, Are You Experienced?: The Inside Story of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (New York: De Capo, 1990).

10. See Don Arden, Mr. Big: Ozzy, Sharon and My Life as the Godfather of Rock (London, UK: Robson Books, 2004).

2. Arguably, Morrison was the forerunner of 80s and 90s Death Metal groups such as Megadeth, Metallica, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, and so on.

3. Phil Lesh, Searching for the Sound.

4. Charles Manson, an aspiring rock musician inspired by the Beatles Helter Skelter, had also threatened Hendrix and Lennon.

5. According to a 2008 BBC documentary, the motorcycle gang hatched a plot to assassinate Jagger in 1969 at his Long Island holiday retreat. Attempting an assault by sea, they might have succeeded had their boat not capsized during a storm.

6. Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon in America: 19711980, Based in Part on the Lost Diaries (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000).

1. Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life. (New York: Ecco, 2008).

2. Fred Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon (New York: Birch Lane, 1991).

3. This began in 1969 with Yokos and his Amsterdam bed-in for peace. Months later, his song Give Peace a Chance was sung by a half-million antiwar demonstrators in Washington, DC. Lennon went on to befriend Yippie founders, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and to headline benefit concerts for White panther, John Sinclair, as well as Black Panther, Bobby Seal. The FBI amassed a 281-page Lennon dossier, which was not fully released until 2006.

4. Robert Rosen, Nowhere Man.

5. Yoko, however, refused to take responsibility. Its a pity, really, she told John Green. I like Paul! I think of him as a friend.

11. His only other detractor was Petula Clark. Jimi Hendrix is a great big hoax, said the Dont Sleep in the Subway star.

6. Yoko Ono, Jerry Hopkins.

7. Ibid.

8. I am a small woman because people repressed me when I was young, Yoko once declared. My bones stopped growing. Did you ever realize that the great aggressors in the world, Napoleon, Hitler, are all physically small people who have been repressed? She went on to explain, I grew up in a family where my father wasnt there, and my mother was a monster. My country was destroyed by war. My feelings and my work have never been respected, and people think that all Ive ever done is marry John Lennon and spend his money.

9. She also froze Seans placenta, intending to consume it later (obsessed with aging she took many youth elixirs), but the maid accidentally defrosted it.

10. John Lennon: The Life. Philip Norman.

11. Some investigators believe that the unpredictably volatile waters are the result of powerful seismic activity. Famous psychic Edgar Cayce, whom Yoko admired, asserted that the mythical lost continent Atlantis, said to be destroyed in an earthquake, was located here. Other investigators attribute Triangle incidents to the disturbance of electro-magnetic fields found in only one other place: the Dragons Triangle or Devils Sea off the coast of Japan. So many sailors were lost here that, in 1952, Japan designated it as a danger zone and sent out a ship to investigate which itself vanished with its nine scientists.

12. Dakota Days. John Green.

13. It is also the name the Greek adventurer and avenger Odysseus used.

14. Anthony Fawcett, John Lennon: One Day at a Time: A Personal Biography of the Seventies (New York: Stein & Day, 1983).

15. Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon (New York: Villard Books, 1992).

12. Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography, with David Dalton (Boston: Little Brown, 1994).

16. Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down.

17. In 2003, it was purchased for $525,000, making it the most valuable LP ever sold.

18. In 1982, Jack Douglas sued Yoko for $750,000 in unpaid royalties. The court awarded the albums producer $2.5 million.

19. Even before this time, it was noted in his FBI file: Lennon appears to be radically oriented, however, he does not give the impression he is a true revolutionist since he is constantly under the influence of narcotics.

1. Red West, Sonny West, and Dave Hebler, Elvis: What Happened?

2. Sri Daya Mata, now ninety-four, still heads the fellowship, based on the teachings of Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda. Born Faye Wright in Salt Lake City, in 1914, Daya Mata is descended from a prominent Morman family, among the founders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

3. The Shoshone medicine man, born John Pope, once cured Jerry Garcia of pneumonia, several times spiritually cleansed the Fillmore and other concert venues, and later became the inspiration of Dylans 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour.

4. After an apprenticeship in India, Cheiro, aka William John Warner, an Irishman, read the palms and the numbers of early-twentieth-century notables from Oscar Wilde to Thomas Edison, to King Edward. After his own reading, skeptic Mark Twain, confessed, Cheiro has exposed my character to me with humiliating accuracy.

5. Numerological coincidences abound in the world of rock death. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Brian Jones all died at age 27, equaling the cosmic 9. Elvis and blues pioneer, Robert Johnson, died on the same day, as had soul brothers, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones. Lennon was shot on Morrisons birthday.

1. In addition, he would later work on the Paula Jones and Monika Lewinsky cases.

13. Chandler had recently asked Jagger to co-sponsor the Experience: the Monkey Man refused.

2. Michael Azerrad, Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana (New York: Main Street Books, 1993).

3. Burkhardt, who would become known as Nirvanas Pete Best (the Beatles first drummer) was soon fired. The band exhausted four more drummers until finally settling on Dave Grohl (now the Foo Fighters front man) in 1991.

4. A handful of his crematory ashes were later scattered in the Wishkah.

5. Kevin Allman, The Dark Side of Kurt Cobain, The Advocate, February, 1992.

6. In 2001 the singer, who had formerly called himself an equal opportunity lech, revealed to Time magazine that he was a queer artist. Explaining the delayed admission, he said, I was being made to be a coward about it, rather than someone who felt like it really was a very private thing. Stipe is the godfather of Cobains daughter, Frances Bean. As for Ms. Love, she came out as a lesbian at Elton Johns AIDS benefit in 1996.

7. Later, he would transplant to the cover of Incesticide his winged female mannequin with exposed organs. Her life-sized sculptural reproduction became a Nirvana stage prop.

8. Cobains obsession with the olfactory later paid off with Nirvanas first hit, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Teen Spirit was a female hygiene deodorant. Cobains favorite novel was Patrick Suskinds Perfume about a sociopathic perfumer who disembowels a French virgin and tries to extract the scent of primordial life from her remains.

9. Years later, turning over a new leaf, Ms. Love decorated Hole stages with a glittering banner that read: Cleanliness is next to Godliness. In 2008, she advertised on MySpace for an insanely clean housekeeper. Agencies suck and Im sick of pigs who steal, she explained, apparently forgetting her own history of kleptomania. So, fuck itwhy not try MySpace?Im insane.

10. The platinum blonde ex-stripper and groupie of the Sex Pistols.

11. Melissa Rossi, Courtney Love: Queen of Noise (New York: Pocket Books, 1996). Though Love originally asked her Portland friend Rossi to write the biography, she later threatened her with a lawsuit unless she made more than a hundred corrections in the manuscript, which her lawyers enumerated in a twenty-eight-page document.