Dead Singers

Dead singers; I love them. All my favorite singers are dead. They all died young, and all had tragic deaths. They are:

Karen Carpenter - Who doesn't love Mr. Postman or I'm on the Top of the World. I want a Broadway play to be made from her songs like ABBA's songs were made into the hit musical Mama Mia. Died of anorexia nervosa at age 32.

John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads and Leaving on a Jet Plane. Died in a plane crash. He was the only one on the plane. He was 53.

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing; never tire of it. I like how they say he is the King of satin-sheet soul. Was killed by his father with 3 gunshot wounds to the chest. He was 44.

Jim Croce - what song don't I love of his. Time in a Bottle and I Have to say I Love You in a Song. Died with 4 other people in a plane crash at the age of 30.

Michael Jackson - can we say best singer and dancer of all time. When I saw his video Beat It, I was mesmerized by the way he moved and the energy he put into each word. I'm a believer in his innocence.  He died of an overdose of medication his doctor injected into him at the age of 50.

Whitney Houston - was the singer Jeff and I loved when we dated. We listened to her debut album all the time. Saving all my Love is beautiful, as well as everything she sang, until she died of cocaine overdose, which caused her to drown in the tub, at the age of 48.

Thanks to all of them for brightening many of my days with their music. As Michael Jackson says, Gone too Soon.