Talk:List of musicians who died of drug overdose

Free and easy
I find this listing is a little bit liberal with the truth. Firstly, to describe Marilyn Monroe as a "pop musician" is pushing the descriptive boundaries. Her own Wikipedia article lists her, in the lede, as a "American actress, model, and singer" - never once throughout as a "pop musician". But it gets worse.

Esther Phillips died of liver and kidney failure; granted it was attributed to long-term drug dependency, but definitely not a drug overdose. Chris Cornell died from suicide by hanging. Stuart Adamson likewise. Jim Morrison's demise was reported by the French authorities as heart failure - although the usual American conspiracy theories persist. {Yawn} Tony Sly "died in his sleep". Roy Montrell died "whilst in the middle of a tour". The cases listed where the 'drug' is "unknown", suggests it was nothing of the sort.

Wikipedia should report WP:RS - so in all cases, what the coroners' reports actually specified. Some entries on the present listing have a smell of original research, fancruft and, well, bollocks.

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 01:00, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


 * More than a year on, and with no other editor's comments, I have pruned the article accordingly. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 14:33, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Just wondering
I just wondered why Jim Morrison, Michael Jackson and Falco didn't make it to the list.

What i can see on his article it just says falco died of injurys and is not currently linked to drugs as for Michael Jackson he is listed, it Appears Jim Morrion's death was heart failure it's only speculated that it's linked to drugs on his article. DanTheMusicMan2 (talk) 10:36, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Multiple serious issues
I recently moved the article from 'List of pop musicians ...' to 'List of musicians ...' as most of the subjects are not actually 'pop' musicians. However, spot checks of some of the subjects finds unreliable sources, sources that don't back up the claims, and people who clearly did not die of drug overdoses. Someone needs to go through each subject one at a time to try and fix this. Damien Linnane (talk) 14:47, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * An IP has proposed merging this article with List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication. Since that article contains everything that is here, though in much better detail and with much better sources, I'm just going to redirect it now. Damien Linnane (talk) 06:31, 6 January 2022 (UTC)