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.
Same thing happened to the drummer of one of my favorite bands...San Diego cowpunk/rockabilly band The Beat Farmers. Their drummer was a big dude named Country Dick Montana—if you’ve ever heard the gag song “Happy Boy,” that’s the Beat Farmers with him singing. Dick collapsed behind his drum set during a performance in Whistler, British Columbia in 1995 and died of a heart attack. He was 40.
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