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The 27 Club by the Numbers: What 1,046 Musicians and a BMJ Study Say About Rock's Most Famous Curse
Fifteen years after Amy Winehouse died, the 27 Club is still selling out tribute shows. So we did the lab thing: pulled the myth apart, ran it against the actual data, and found something stranger than a curse.
The club nobody applied to
Last week — July 23, 2026 — marked fifteen years since Amy Winehouse died of alcohol intoxication at her home in Camden. Her estate marked the anniversary with a tribute, and her mother Janis gave a rare interview calling her “a victim of her own success” (Rolling Stone). The coroner’s verdict in 2011 was “death by misadventure.” She was 27.