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The number that made Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, and Cobain immortal.
means A two-digit integer equal to three cubed, or the age at which several famous musicians died tragically.
from The 27 Club emerged in 1969 when Jimi Hendrix died at 27; cemented when Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison followed within weeks. Kurt Cobain's 1994 death at the same age revived the morbid tally and gave the phenomenon its name.
The Club membersHendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Cobain, Amy Winehouse, plus disputed claims
Math factThree cubed; also the number of letters in the Spanish alphabet
Why it sticksPeak artistic brilliance often collides with self-destruction
Cultural weightTransformed a coincidence into a dark cultural archetype