Number One in Heaven: The Heroes Who Died for Rock 'n' Roll

Number One In Heaven Is The Bible Of Pop's Dead - The Ultimate Record Of All Those Who Arrived, Rocked And Pegged-out Over The Last Forty-odd Years Of Fast Cars, Private Jets, Hard Drugs, Lethal Weapons And Reckless Living. Music Writer Jeremy Simmonds Draws On A Lifetime's Obsession To Match The Industry's Biggest Departed Stars - Buddy, Elvis, Ian, Janis, Jeff, Jimmy, Kirsty, Marc, Sid Et Al - With More Than A Few Lesser-known Tales Of Rock Tragedy. His Book's Compulsive Chronology Sprinkles Those With Strange And Short Lives (from G G Allin To Jimmy Zambo Via Frankie Lymon) With Some Truly Shocking Demises (cue `pure' Soul Legend Sam Cooke). Mortality Can Be A Tricky Subject, So Should The Register Of Deaths Get A Little Gloomy, Relief Is At Hand With A Smorgasbord Of Lighter-hearted Facts And Figures (dead Interesting!), Plus Some Lucky Escapes (close . . . Closer!) And A Selection Of The Author's Favoured Death-discs In Top Ten Form (the Death Toll).