Talk to any performer, and they probably have a horror story about the time they died on stage. It was a bad crowd, bad night, bad material, the venue wasn’t right. But now, there’s a b…
, is the first comprehensive study of onstage deaths. Unearthed details, little-known facts, and anecdotes reveal the truth about the final curtain call that ended many artists’ lives. The book arrives on Sept. 3.
This is no pun intended, but the most shocking was maybe Nick Lowe. It’s been agreed that in 1972, Les Harvey of the band Stone the Crows was the first rock musician to be electrocuted to death onstage. We found out singer-songwriter Nick Lowe died onstage of electrocution in 1969– but, in his case, he was revived! Nick was playing with the band Brinsley Schwarz in London when he grabbed a faulty microphone. He was unable to let go. His heart stopped.
DEADLINE: It seems like a lot of the actual deaths were first believed to have been staged. Are there a lot of entertainment plays or whatever that have staged deaths?Yes, many! We’ve found too many cases where actors especially drop dead after a line that seems to fit. “Too bad we can only live so long!” Thud. “This is the moment for which I gave waited.” And actors have often had the bad timing to die at a time in the play or opera when a death would make sense.
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