8. Dimebag Darrell: Before he was gunned down in 2004, Dimebag was a championship drinker, as if he had to drink so that the world wouldn't explode. Aside from most people, Dime was one of the kindest drunks you would meet it seems. Sebastian Bach wrote a great account of life on the road with Dimebag right here.
7. John Bonham: Yes, booze did kill Bonzo, but before it finally did him in, he was known to drink until he fell over or puked so he could start again. To his credit, he rarely drank before shows. There is even a Facebook group dedicated to his boozing you can join if you dare.
6. Johnny Thunders: It wasn't the love of his life, lady heroin, that ended up killing Thunders. Most claim it was foul play by drug dealers in New Orleans where he passed, or a hidden bout with leukemia. His needle play was so bad that even Keith Richards seemed to be put off by it. A good look at this state can be found in the punk bible, Please Kill Me.
5. Eric Clapton: Clapton was known for his coke and heroin use, which seemed to peak in the early '70s as his musician friends started overdosing. He would end up having a three-year affair with the needle before quitting. Today, Clapton raises money for his treatment facility, Crossroads Centre, in Antigua.
4. Keith Moon: In addition to blowing up toilets with fireworks, Moon did almost any drug he could find. It seems to have started with uppers in the early stage of The Who and accelerated to anything on the table. The sad truth is that he would end up dying after overdosing on prescription drugs meant to wean him off booze.
3. Michael Jackson: Jackson is perhaps the most recent high-profile drug death in the past few years. The laundry list of drugs he was taking at the time of his death, and apparently had been taking for years, would make fodder for great chapter of a lost Hunter S. Thompson book.
. Nikki Sixx: Anyone who has read Sixx's The Heroin Diaries will tell you that the Motley Crue bassist spent 1987 as a stone-cold junkie on the road, at his mansion, and everywhere he found himself in between. Sixx estimates he spent thousands upon thousands of dollars a week that year on smack alone.
1. Bon Scott: Until it killed him, Scott was booze brought to life. He was seedy, slurry, and brilliant. Sadly he couldn't keep it in check and he choked on his own vomit and died as the band was beginning work in 1980 on what would become Back In Black. Somehow we can't imagine him as an old man.
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