Top 10 Musicians Who Correctly Predicted Their Own Death
You've heard the stories. The cryptic lyrics. The offhand interviews. The eerie premonitions that only make sense in hindsight. Some of these musicians didn't just flirt with the idea of death in their work. They practically sent it a calendar invite.This list is all about those artists who predicted their own end with a level of detail that makes you wonder if they had a foot in two worlds. Some left chilling lyrics that read like prophecies. Others casually described their own demise in an interview, like death was already part of their weekend plans. A few were even more specific. Cause of death, location, sometimes even the exact date. Not poetic allusions or vague metaphors. We're talking cold, precise, "you can't make this stuff up" kind of foresight.
You're here to decide which of these musicians nailed their own grim forecast the most. Scroll through, vote up the ones that made your spine tingle, and maybe rethink that journal entry you wrote last week.

In an interview in the '60s, he was asked how he thought he would die.
He jokingly answered, "I'll probably be popped off by some loony with a gun!"
It's amazing to me that he predicted the way he would die 20 years before it happened!
Wow. All I gotta say is just "wow."

He even took measures - he found his own replacement in a bar (Brian Johnson sang there) and gave the name and phone number to Angus "just in case."
When Bon Scott died, Angus called Brian Johnson.

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He wrote a song called "The Ballad of Jimi" with these lines:
"Many things he would try for he knew soon he'd die," "Now Jimi's gone, he's not alone / His memory still lives on," and "Five years, this he said / He's not gone, he's just dead."
He died exactly five years later, and yes, his legacy still lives on.

Now this is something!

In the song "Solid Gold Easy Action," there's a line: "Life is the same and it always will be / Easy as picking foxes from a tree."
Five years later, he died in a car, wrapped around a tree, with a license plate that read "FOX 661L."

He said in an interview, "I'm gonna become a rockstar and die before the age of 30."
Also, he wrote a song named "Death," and three days later, he was found dead.

He predicted the cause of his death in the song "The Factory":
"Kickin' asbestos in the factory, punchin' out Chryslers in the factory, breathin' that plastic in the factory."
Sixteen years later, he died from a type of lung cancer, which is often caused by exposure to asbestos.
Oddly enough, Zevon never worked in a factory and wasn't exposed to asbestos, so the chances of developing this type of cancer were extremely low.

On Richie Rich's song "N***** Done Changed," 2Pac raps these lyrics:
"I been shot and murdered, can tell you how it happened word for word. But best believe, that n***** gon' get what they deserve."
Only two months later, Tupac Shakur was shot. His case is still unsolved.
In "Changes," he also ends the last verse with (I know it's not a prediction, but still, it's hard not to notice):
"'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
some buck that I roughed up way back
comin' back after all these years
rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is."
That's the final line of the song (apart from the chorus). Eerie.

He recorded the song "Three Steps to Heaven" in January 1960. Just over three months later, he died in a car crash.

He was singing The Day When I Die minutes before his tragic plane crash.
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He wrote the song "Love Is A Heart Attack," and soon after, he died from a heart attack before the beginning of the tour.
More precisely, his death was due to a heart attack induced by a cocaine overdose.

The cover of their 1977 LP features the band engulfed in flames. Three days after its release, the band's plane crashed.
Also, on the album, there's a song called "That Smell" with these lyrics:
"Say you'll be alright come tomorrow, but tomorrow might not be here for you," "Angel of darkness upon you," and "The smell of death surrounds you."

Yes, he always said to his closest friends that he was scared for his life. Even in his last phone call, he said that someone was trying to murder him.
So, I believe that he was murdered. There are lots of people involved in his death.

He told a schoolmate when he was 14 that he'd become a rockstar, kill himself, and go out in a blaze like Jimi Hendrix.

He did it by putting a backwards subliminal message in one of his songs. The message was "Must go now, must go now." Creepy, right?
Can somebody explain how and when he predicted it?
"If I'm going to ever die or become a sacrifice"...


In an interview, Mitch mentioned that he would probably die riding his bike or speeding.
He posted a photo of himself one night, drunk on his bike. That night, he got in an accident and died.
"My death will be the greatest thing to happen to this world."
And it was.
In an interview, he was asked where he saw himself in the next few years, and he said, "Best case, in a cemetery. Not in a cemetery, sprinkled in ashes smoked up by my homies. I mean, that's the worst case."
Just look into the mess of a story that is Darby Crash. In an interview, while with the band The Germs, he said jokingly (paraphrasing) that who knows, he could kill himself at the age of 22.
In 1980, Darby intentionally overdosed on heroin and died at the age of 22.
This sounds like planned suicide.

He always knew he was going to die young.
"I'll be dead, darling, are you crazy?"

The song "Tin Soldier," which he sang both with Humble Pie and solo, opens with the line, "I am a little tin soldier that wants to jump into your fire." Marriott died in a house fire.

"What's the 27 club? / We ain't making it past 21."
He rapped this in the song "Legends," which was dedicated to XXXTentacion and Lil Peep.


I presume this has something to do with his cover of "Hurt"?

His song Kurt Cobain says it all.