White lighter myth members of the 27 Club including Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison, and that disposable lighters produced by other companies were not widely available at that time. White lighter myth The white lighter myth or white lighter curse is an urban legend based on the 27 Club in which it is claimed several musicians and artists died while in possession of a white lighter, causing white lighters to be attributed to bad fortune. The myth is primarily based on the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Patrick Hafner, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain. The myth has been integrated with cannabis culture. In
Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain Death" reached #18 on the New York Times Bestseller list in April 2004. Shortly after the book's release, the television show "Dateline NBC" aired a segment critically examining some of the book's conclusions. British newspaper The Guardian described the book as "valuably different in tone to everything else you'll read on the subject." Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, published by Simon & Schuster, is a collaborative investigative journalism book written by Ian Halperin and Max Wallace purporting to show that rock star Kurt Cobain, believed to have committed suicide,