Gone too soon

While thinking about John Lennon's way-too-early departure, these folks have put together a slideshow of musicians that have left us before their time, like Warren Zevon (pictured).

NBC 4 - Slideshow

• Robert Johnson - 27 - poisoning
• George Gershwin - 38 - brain tumor
• Glenn Miller - 40 - Heart attack
• Hank Williams - 27 - unknown
• Charlie Parker - 35 - heart attack, pneumonia, ulcers, and cirrhosis
• Buddy Holly - 23 - plane crash
• Ritchie Valens - 18 - plane crash
• Big Bopper - 29 - plane crash
• Patsy Cline - 31 - auto accident
• Sam Cooke - 30 - shot by women he picked up in a bar
• Nat King Cole - 46 - lung cancer
• Otis Redding - 27 - plane crash
• Brian Jones - 27 - drowning
• Jimi Hendrix - 27 - Inhalation of vomit due while on barbiturates
• Janis Joplin - 27 - drug overdose
• Jim Morrison - 27 - heart failure
• Duane Allman - 26 - motorcycle crash
• Jim Croce - 30 - plane crash
• Bobby Darin - 37 - died during heart surgery
• Keith Moon - 32 - drug overdose (died in same room Mama Cass did)
• Cass Elliot - 31 - heart attack
• Elvis Presley - 42- cardiac arrhythmia
• Sid Vicious - 22 - heroin overdose
• John Bonham - 33 - alcohol abuse
• John Lennon - 40 - shot by "deranged" fan
• Bob Marley - 36 - cancer
• John Belushi - 33 - cocaine and heroin overdose
• Karen Carpenter - 33 - chronic anorexia
• Marvin Gaye - 45 - pneumonia
• Ricky Nelson - 45 - plane crash
• Andy Gibb - 30 - myocarditis (a heart condition)
• Stevie Ray Vaughan - 36 - helicopter crash
• Freddie Mercury - 45 - AIDS
• Frank Zappa - 53 - prostate cancer
• Kurt Cobain - 27 - suicide by shotgun
• Jerry Garcia - 53 - heart trouble exacerbated by sleep apnea
• Selena - 24 - shot by president of her fan club
• Tupac Shakur - 25 - shot in an "apparent robbery attempt"
• Notorious B.I.G. - 24 - drive by shooting
• Michael Hutchence - 37 - suicide by hanging
• John Denver - 53 - plane crash
• Carl Wilson - 52 - lung cancer
• Aaliyah - 22 - plane crash
• George Harrison - 57 - cancer
• John Entwistle - 57 - heart attack
• Maurice Gibb - 53- heart attack
• Robert Palmer - 54 - heart attack
• Warren Zevon - 56 - cancer
• Rick James - 56 - heart attack