Robert Johnson
Pull a thread
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 and ran the myth against the actual data. What we found is stranger than a curse.
The club nobody applied to
Last week, on July 23, 2026, it was 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.