Rock 'til You Drop : Music Stars Who Never Hit 40

MURDER...SUICIDE...DRUGS...ACCIDENTS...NATURAL CAUSES...THE bad, the mad and the sad deaths of the giants and also-rans of rock.

The music world is littered with early deaths, stars taken before their time.

Some died tragically, others by their own hand. Unlike many books, Rock 'Til You Drop concentrates on the end of their short lives rather than on the careers of musicians who died before reaching their 40th birthday.

From Johnny Ace - for whom a game of Russian Roulette went badly wrong on Christmas Day - to Mia Zapata - whose killer was brought to justice in 2004, 11 years after her brutal murder.

Find out: Who died while playing guitar in his bath * Whose suicide note read "Excuse all the blood" * Who jumped to his death from a balcony in Los Angeles while being chased by police * Who weighed 698 pounds when he died * Which two stars died (several years apart) in the London flat of Harry Nilsson.

Contains 13 pages of appendices featuring deaths by cause, date and age.