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TIL that Allen Wilson (Canned Heat) died 14 months after Brian Jones (The Rolling Stones); 2 weeks before Jimi Hendrix; 4 weeks before Janis Joplin; and 10 months before Jim Morrison. All 27. All related to drugs.

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