![The Doors' Jim Morrison: Morrison was friends with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom died in 1970 at the age of 27. Shortly after their death, while out with friends in LA, Morrison said,]()
The Doors' Jim Morrison: Morrison was friends with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom died in 1970 at the age of 27. Shortly after their death, while out with friends in LA, Morrison said, "You're drinking with number three. That's right, number three." Shortly thereafter, Morrison died - also at the age of 27. His cause of death was listed as heart failure, but, controversially, no autopsy was ever performed.
![T. Rex's Marc Bolan: This one sounds like a crackpot conspiracy, but it's actually completely true. In 'Solid Gold Easy Action', Bolan sings,]()
T. Rex's Marc Bolan: This one sounds like a crackpot conspiracy, but it's actually completely true. In 'Solid Gold Easy Action', Bolan sings, "Life is the same and it always will be / Easy as picking foxes from a tree." It's a strange lyric, made even stranger by the fact that Bolan was killed when the car he was in, registration FOX 661L, crashed into a sycamore tree. He was killed instantly.
![Weezer's Mikey Welsh: A very modern, and very sad, death prediction. In September 2011, former Weezer bassist tweeted,]()
Weezer's Mikey Welsh: A very modern, and very sad, death prediction. In September 2011, former Weezer bassist tweeted, "Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today." He then added, "Correction - weekend after next." Two weeks later, he died of heart failure in a Chicago hotel room.
![D12's Proof: On D12's '40 Oz', Proof rapped,]()
D12's Proof: On D12's '40 Oz', Proof rapped, "I'm in the club to beef, you gotta murder me there." In 2006, after a fight broke out at the CCC Club between Proof and Keith Bender, both ended up shot dead. Proof had also played a rapper who's gunned down in Eminem's 'Like Toy Soldiers' video.
![Jimi Hendrix: In 'The Ballad Of Jimi', recorded with Curtis Knight prior to Hendrix' 1967 debut album, he sings,]()
Jimi Hendrix: In 'The Ballad Of Jimi', recorded with Curtis Knight prior to Hendrix' 1967 debut album, he sings, "Five years, this he said / He's not gone, he's just dead." He died five years later at the age of 27, after choking on his own vomit, having taken an overdose of sleeping tablets.
![Warren Zevon: On 'Sentimental Hygiene', Zevon sang,]()
Warren Zevon: On 'Sentimental Hygiene', Zevon sang, "Kickin' asbestos in the factory / Punching out Chryslers in the factory / Breathin' that plastic in the factory." Fifteen years later, he died of malignant mesothelioma - a disease which is most commonly caused by exposure to asbestos - despite never having knowingly worked near asbestos in his life.
![Lynyrd Skynyrd: The cover for the band's final album, Street Survivors, featured the band standing engulfed in flames. Three days after the album's release, three of the band's members - including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant - died in a plane crash after several people on board claimed to have seen flames shooting out of the engine. The lyrics to 'The Smell', one of the album's most popular songs, also proved eerie -]()
Lynyrd Skynyrd: The cover for the band's final album, Street Survivors, featured the band standing engulfed in flames. Three days after the album's release, three of the band's members - including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant - died in a plane crash after several people on board claimed to have seen flames shooting out of the engine. The lyrics to 'The Smell', one of the album's most popular songs, also proved eerie - "The smell of death surrounds you."
![Jeff Buckley: On the closing track, 'Dream Brother', of his one and only album Grace, Buckley sings,]()
Jeff Buckley: On the closing track, 'Dream Brother', of his one and only album Grace, Buckley sings,"The dark angel is shuffling in... Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over." Three years later, Buckley went swimming in the Mississippi River fully clothed, and accidentally drowned.
![Tupac: During his verse on Richie Ric's 'N***s Done Changed', Tupac raps,]()
Tupac: During his verse on Richie Ric's 'N***s Done Changed', Tupac raps, "I been shot and murdered, can tell you how it happened word for word." Two months later, he was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. This wasn't his first accurate death prediction - in an interview with PBS, when asked where he saw himself in the next few years, Tupac replied, "Best case, in a cemetery."
![John Denver: There was no explicit mention of death in Denver's biggest hit, 'Leaving On A Jet Plane', but there's still a tragic irony in the fact that he was killed when the experimental jet plane he was flying crashed in 1997.]()
John Denver: There was no explicit mention of death in Denver's biggest hit, 'Leaving On A Jet Plane', but there's still a tragic irony in the fact that he was killed when the experimental jet plane he was flying crashed in 1997.