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* [[Blues]] musician [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] recovered from a nearly deadly addiction to cocaine and alcohol, returned to form with his comeback album ''In Step'' in 1989, then died tragically in a helicopter crash a year later (along with the pilot and the rest of the crew) after playing a concert in Colorado. |
* [[Blues]] musician [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] recovered from a nearly deadly addiction to cocaine and alcohol, returned to form with his comeback album ''In Step'' in 1989, then died tragically in a helicopter crash a year later (along with the pilot and the rest of the crew) after playing a concert in Colorado. |
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* The great explorer and soldier T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) died in the most ignoble way after the life he had led, in a motorcycle accident as he was pulling out of his drive. |
* The great explorer and soldier T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) died in the most ignoble way after the life he had led, in a motorcycle accident as he was pulling out of his drive. |
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* John Lennon, who led perhaps [[The Beatles|the greatest rock band of all time]], battled drugs, a messy divorce, a deportation attempt, and personal psychological problems. Just as he is getting his life in order and starting to make a comeback as a musician with his ''Double Fantasy'' album, he is gunned down on the street, after a busy day promoting his album, by an obsessed fan. |
* John Lennon, who led perhaps [[The Beatles (band)|the greatest rock band of all time]], battled drugs, a messy divorce, a deportation attempt, and personal psychological problems. Just as he is getting his life in order and starting to make a comeback as a musician with his ''Double Fantasy'' album, he is gunned down on the street, after a busy day promoting his album, by an obsessed fan. |
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* In 1980, Kenny Waters was sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit. His sister Betty Anne spent the next 18 years trying to get him released, even going through law school to able to defend him, at the cost of her marriage. She finally managed to get him released in 2001... only for him to die 6 months later from head trauma after falling off a wall. The [[Hilary Swank]] movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244754/ Conviction] is based off this story, though the producers omitted the detail about the brother dying [[Sudden Downer Ending|for obvious reasons]]. |
* In 1980, Kenny Waters was sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit. His sister Betty Anne spent the next 18 years trying to get him released, even going through law school to able to defend him, at the cost of her marriage. She finally managed to get him released in 2001... only for him to die 6 months later from head trauma after falling off a wall. The [[Hilary Swank]] movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244754/ Conviction] is based off this story, though the producers omitted the detail about the brother dying [[Sudden Downer Ending|for obvious reasons]]. |
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