{"id":3642,"date":"2021-01-20T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambassadors.ucsiuniversity.edu.my\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2021-01-20T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:07:00","slug":"the-27-club-an-artists-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambassadors.ucsiuniversity.edu.my\/index.php\/2021\/01\/20\/the-27-club-an-artists-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"The 27 Club – An Artists Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A few members of the 27 Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The 27 Club you ask? Why haven\u2019t you heard, that club has so\nmany famous members! Artists such as Kurt Cobain (front man of the band\nNirvana) , Amy Winehouse (singer and cultural icon), Jimi Hendrix (arguably the\nbest guitarist that has ever graced the planet) and not to mention Robert Johnson\n(one of the pioneers of blues music) have been mentioned in the 27 club. It\nwould be a surprise to me if you have not heard of this club. Sounds like a\ncool club, am I right? Well this club is not exactly as it seems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see, the 27 club is not some awesome club that famous\npeople willingly join. It has a darkness to it. Why would I think that? Look\nback at all the names I just mentioned. Google them if you are not familiar with\nthose names. If you did it,  all the\nmembers of this club are dead. Yes, dead. The reason this club is so famously\ncalled the 27 club is because all of these artists died at age 27, at the peak\nof their careers. Due to the face that so many famous people have died at this\nage, a conspiracy arose that they purposefully ended their lives in order to\njoin this club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Faustian Deal is a deal with the Devil for your soul<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There is no scientific proof that this age has a significance\nin the music scene. But that did not stop people from coming up with their own\nconclusions. A popular theory of the reason that these people end their lives at\n27 is that they had made a deal with the devil himself, famously known as a Faustian\nBargain. A Faustian Bargain is a pact where a person trades something that has\nvery significant moral or spiritual value, such as a soul, in order to gain\nsome material benefit, such as fame and fortune. This term arose from German\nfolklore where a man named Faust, who is a scholar, has become bored with his\nlife and decided to kill himself -unsuccessfully- so he calls upon the Devil,\nin the hope of acquiring some special knowledge and magic powers so that he\ncould gain access to all the pleasures and knowledge present in the world. In\nresponse to his call, the devil sends his representative named Mephistopheles. And\nso, a deal was struck, Mephistopheles would serve Faust for a specific number\nof years but in return, Faust\u2019s soul had to be given to the devil and he would\nbe eternally enslaved. One of the examples of what Faust wanted to accomplish with\nthis deal was to seduce a young, beautiful and innocent girl by the name of\nGretchen. Gretchen\u2019s life is unfortunately destroyed when she gives birth to\nFaust\u2019s son. After realising this, she tries to murder the child by drowning him\nbut is caught before she could do it and is killed. The story does have a good ending\nthough. In the end, due to Faust\u2019s pleading and Gretchen\u2019s begging to God,\nFaust eventually enters heaven.         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Crossroads<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Not a fun story I know. The theory of the Faustian Bargain\nbecame popular with the fame of Robert Johnson. Robert Johnson was an American\nblues singer and musician. His guitar and music writing skills have influenced\nmany artists to this day. Due to his poorly documented life, many theories and\nconspiracies arose. A story about Robert Johnson was that he had sold his soul\nto the devil when he was passing a local crossroads in order to achieve musical\nsuccess. This theory became even more popular, due to Robert Johnson himself\nwriting a song titled, \u2018Crossroads\u2019, where the lyrics have been interpreted as\nhim asking the devil for a deal. \u201cI went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees\u201d,\nwhich has been said to be Robert summoning the devil. Next, \u201cI believe to my\nsoul, now, poor Bob is sinkin\u2019 down\u201d, is said to be when his soul is being\ndragged down into Hell. The name \u2018Bob\u2019 being a common nickname for Robert. The\nnext line, \u201cYeoo, standing at the crossroad, tried to flag a ride, Ooo eee, I\ntried to flag a ride, Didn\u2019t nobody seem to know me, babe, everybody pass me by\u201d\nclearly states that Robert was at a crossroads, the place where he famously\nmade the deal, and that nobody could see him due to the fact that the singer is\nalready dead. There is also a movie called Crossroads (1986) inspired by Robert\nJohnson which is about a 17 year-old boy who wants to find Robert\u2019s \u201clost song\u201d\nwhich was apparently missing from the world. Robert eventually died at the age\nof 27 for unknown reasons. His death was not even publicised, he just\ndisappeared and only after 30 years, when a musicologist was researching Robert\nJohnsons life, found his death certificate which stated the time and place of his\ndeath. The mysterious circumstances around his death were what made the conspiracies\nso easy to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kurt Cobain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next, Kurt Cobain. Kurt Cobain was found dead in his home in\nSeattle, Washington on the 5th<\/sup> of April where he was seen laying\nnext to a shotgun and a handwritten letter. Kurt was known to have been\nbattling with drug addiction and alcoholism to cope with whatever ailments he\nhad. He also was known to have been diagnosed with chronic bronchitis as well\nas another stomach disorder that could was never properly diagnosed. The\nstomach disorder was so bad that Kurt could barely sleep. He also has said that\nthe intense pain from that disorder provided him with a way to write lyrics\nwith more feeling and pain inside in order to connect with the meaning of the\nsongs he wrote. There are also many theories about his death as he had\ndisappeared for one week a few days before his death. His disappearance one\nweek before his death was alarming to his wife, Courtney Love, and the rest of\nhis family. So alarming in fact, that they hired a professional investigator to\ntry to look for him. They eventually found his body in a greenhouse above his\ngarage. Beside him, a shotgun and a letter. The shotgun was confirmed to be his\nand the letter also was confirmed to be in his handwriting. The letter was a\nsuicide note which talked about how he had grown tired of being in the\nspotlight, being world famous. His note had said he did not feel the excitement\nthat comes from the roar of the crowd anymore. He also wrote that he thinks\nthat his wife, Courtney\u2019s and his daughter, Frances\u2019 life would be better off\nwithout him, which is why he killed himself. But the conspiracy behind his\ndeath was that it was a murder, that was painted to look like a suicide. The\nconspiracy is that his wife plotted to murder him after talks of divorce\nbetween them. But, investigations have said that a suicide was the most likely\nthing to have happened. The police still get requests to reopen this case\nregularly, about once a month in fact, by fans of this band. A movie titled \u2018Soaked\nIn Bleach\u2019 was released in 2015 which talked about how the private investigator\nTom Grant found the note to be very suspicious, as if the suicide note had been\nforged. Soon after this movie was released, Courtney issued a cease and desist\nletter to the producers of the film in order to protect her information and to\ndiscredit the film and label it a fraud. Her decision to do this made it easier\nfor more people to believe this conspiracy theory as more and more\nrepresentatives of Kurt agree that the suicide note was not written by him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kurt Cobain’s Suicide Note<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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