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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the heartbroken dept.

Tom Petty, the singer and guitarist whose influential music spanned four decades, died in October from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications involving opioids, his family announced Friday.

Source: Washington Post

Previously: US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:35PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:35PM (#625617)
    Suggested alternate dept. line.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:29PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:29PM (#625659)

    How does "Drowned in own vomit dept" work for you?

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 21 2018, @11:18PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday January 21 2018, @11:18PM (#625868) Homepage

      Jimi Hendrix, being a Black man, wrote "Purple Haze" because he took a bunch of opiates and puked up the skunk cabbage he loved to eat while recovering from drug binges. It's a goddamn shame he didn't survive the second round.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @05:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @05:56AM (#625961)

      Hendrix has been mentioned.
      Bon Scott was another (drugs).
      John Bonham was another (booze).
      Swing Era trombonist and bandleader Tommy Dorsey ate a big meal, took a prescription downer, and went to bed.
      When he barfed up his meal, like the others, he aspirated it and was too bombed to cough it out.

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