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**Too young to die**
1	Buddy Holly - killed in a plane crash aged 22
2	Jimi Hendrix - died choking on his own vomit aged 27
3	Jim Morrison, The Doors, found dead in a bathtub in Paris from a heart attack aged 27
4	Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones, drowned while under the influence of drugs and alcohol aged 27
5	Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, commited suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home in Seattle aged 27
6	Marc Bolan, T Rex - killed in a car crash aged 28
7	Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, TLC, killed in a car crash aged 30
8	John Lennon, The Beatles, shot dead by Mark Chapman aged 40
9	Elvis Presley, died of heart failure aged 42
10	Marvin Gaye, shot dead by his father aged 44

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