Musicians, drugs, booze, dying young.

[Sir C]

Oh OK
A list of good guys* that passed before their time to counter-balance
Buddy Holly
Otis Redding
Tammi Terrell
Bob Marley
Eva Cassidy


*no idea if they were ****s or not

Marley was a proper nasty piece of work, apparently. Hard to summarise the stories I've read about him, but 'violent racist' would be the result of the evidence.