The 50 Club Forget the "27 Club." This past month, when reading some of the newer memorials and moving remembrances of the brilliant Maggie Estep, TiR realized that her name sadly joins an astonishing list, almost certainly one closer to TiR's heart than that of the "27s," one which no one else heretofore seems to have noticed, and which deserves its own small-c canonization: The Fifty Club.
Which would now then, in part, include:
Maggie Estep Joe Strummer Michael Jackson Roberto BolaƱo Alban Berg Gustav Mahler Jelly Roll Morton Dee Dee Ramone Kurt Weill Isadora Duncan Jackie Wilson David Ruffin Dave Prater (of Same & Dave) Glenn Gould Violeta Parra Jimmy Reed Dave Brockie (of GWAR) Steve McQueen Carson McCullers Raymond Carver Stieg Larsson Rod Serling St. Thomas Aquinas, and Virgil