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The 27 Club: how a coincidence became pop culture’s permanent afterlife

The 27 Club: how a coincidence became pop culture’s permanent afterlife

by Jessica Smith | Jun 3, 2026 | Memento Mainstream

Science says the 27 Club is coincidence. Pop culture has made it an afterlife, turning young deaths into a story about genius, memory and the artists we refuse to let disappear. Between 1969 and 1971, four of music’s most mythologised figures died within two years of...

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