Quote Originally Posted by midnightman View Post
Right. Don't forget about these musicians:
Miles Davis+ [[heroin)
Billie Holiday [[heroin)
Charlie Parker [[heroin)
Ray Charles+ [[heroin and alcohol)
Dee Dee Warwick+ [[heroin and cocaine)
Janis Joplin [[heroin, alcohol and prescription pills)
Jim Morrison [[alcohol and suspected heroin usage)
Judy Garland [[prescription pills and alcohol)
Jimi Hendrix [[prescription pills)
Elvis Presley [[prescription pills)
Florence Ballard+ [[alcohol)
John Lennon+ [[heroin)
Natalie Cole+ [[heroin and cocaine)
Chaka Khan* [[heroin, cocaine, alcohol and prescription pills)
Marvin Gaye+ [[cocaine and suspected PCP use; PCP was not found on his body after his autopsy but allegedly he was using it around the time of his last tour, which was the reason for his paranoia)
David Ruffin [[cocaine)
Hillel Slovak of the Red Hot Chili Peppers [[heroin)
John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers* [[heroin)
Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers* [[heroin)
James Brown+ [[PCP and cocaine)
Ike Turner [[cocaine)
Rick James [[cocaine)
Bobby Womack+ [[cocaine)
Sly Stone* [[cocaine)
John Entwistle [[cocaine)
Michael Jackson [[prescription pills, propofol, alcohol and suspected cocaine use)
Amy Winehouse+ [[alcohol, cocaine and heroin)
Whitney Houston+ [[cocaine, alcohol and prescription pills)
George Michael+ [[prescription pills and suspected cocaine use)
Prince [[prescription pills)

* - they're still alive and sober.
+ - they died of other issues related or not related to drugs [[George Michael's was due to natural causes and he had kicked his drug habit at the time; so did Bobby Womack if I'm not mistaken; we know what caused Lennon and Gaye's deaths; though Whitney's death was related to cocaine, the main cause was drowning).
Add Clyde McPhatter [[alcohol) to this list.