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Title    Tom Petty Died of Accidental Opioid Overdose, Family Reveals
Date    Sunday January 21 2018, @05:29AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the heartbroken dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/01/20/186211

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

Original Submission

Links
  1. "died in October" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tom-petty-hall-of-fame-singer-who-became-rock-mainstay-in-1970s-dies-at-66/2017/10/03/57f33aca-a7a6-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?tid=a_mcntxutm_term=.3d60fd80a8ad
  2. "Washington Post" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/01/19/tom-petty-died-of-an-accidental-drug-overdose-his-family-shared-the-news-to-save-lives/
  3. "US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/10/03/176226
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24431
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