Most Shock Celebrity Death

[Bengalzona]

(08-24-2017, 08:52 PM)Stewy Wrote: Heath Ledger made me sad but didn't shock me.  Young people dying in the movie industry will never shock me even when drugs are involved, accidental or not.

That's sort of the way I see it. How much should we have been surprised by the deaths of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, etc. when they led such lives that they abused themselves so much. Same with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John Belushi.... even Elvis.

But someone like John Lennon (assassinated) or Buddy Holly (plane crash) or even Princess Di (paparozzi crash), those seem to have a little more shock value.

I'll say this for Elvis, though: his death possibly got the greatest amount of attention. Consider that here we are 40 years later and people are still impersonating him or denying he died. In a way, he was bigger AFTER he died than he was before.

I forgot about Marilyn Monroe. But she was sort of before everyone here's time anyway.