What’s odd is that it appears to have happened at a gig. I don’t mean to make light of his passing and it appears to have been a health issue, not drug abuse or any of the other things that often take people at an early age.
What’s odd is that it appears to have happened at a gig.
Odd but not unheard of. Back in the old-time radio days, the critic Alexander Woollcott---the New Yorker theater and literary critic whose Town Crier program was pretty popular in its day---suffered the heart attack that killed him while he was on the air. (He died a day or so later.)
And Jackie Wilson suffered the heart attack that collapsed him into the coma in which he spent almost the entire rest of his life (he came out of it very briefly in 1976, then relapsed and remained comatose until he died in 1984) while performing "Lonely Teardrops" live at the Latin Casino in New Jersey in 1975.