Jimmy Hendrix: Jimmy experimented with all kinds of drugs such as LSD, marijuana, speed, and sleeping pills. He died as a result of taking sleeping pills and alcohol which later caused asphyxiation by his own vomit while sleeping.
Eric Clapton: By 1969, Blues guitar legend, Eric Clapton, was drinking two bottles of vodka a day, and five years later his heroin addiction was estimated to cost him 1,500 pounds a week.
Ray Charles: Ray Charles had struggled with heroin addiction for 2 long decades. He was arrested 3 times for drug violations. He quit music for a year to get off it.
Janis Joplin: Throughout her short life, Joplin experimented with a variety of drugs and drank heavily. At the age of 27, Janis died of a heroin overdose.
Boy George: George blames his addictions to heroin and cocaine on his failed relationship. On October 7, 2005, Boy George was arrested in Manhattan for illegally possessing cocaine.
Miles Davis: In the winter of 1953-1954, Miles Davis locked himself in a guest room in his father's farm for twelve days, until the drug was fully out of his system.
Elvis Presley: The King of Rock, Elvis Presley was addicted to prescription drugs and eventually died of a heart attack brought on by long-term drug use.
Bob Dylan: Dylan was quoted as saying, Opium, hash and pot - those things aren't drugs; they just bend your mind a little. I think everybody's mind should be bent once in a while.
