Fame: an art project of musicians who died at the age of 27 including Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse. Fame: an art project was first exhibited at Art Exchange, Colchester, Essex in 2013 and St Marylebone Crypt, London in 2015. Seventy-one of the originals are held in the permanent collection of The University of Arizona Museum of Art. The balance of the project is held in the collections of Honolulu Museum of Art, MOMA Wales, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Wayne State University Art Collection, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Michigan and
Music history of the United States in the 1970s popular music's most successful artists died within six weeks of each other in 1977: Elvis Presley (on August 16) and Bing Crosby (on October 14). Presley—whose top 1970s hit was "Burning Love" in 1972— ranked among the top artists of the rock era, while Crosby was among the most successful pre-rock era artists. The early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix as well as the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed. Music history of the United States in the 1970s Popular music of the