The 27 Club has initiated its newest member, Amy Winehouse. While the club is most famous for some of its rock stars, the list of members now totals 45 musicians from different genres with the induction of Winehouse. Not familiar with the 27 Club? The 27 club is a group of musicians, some of them quite famous, whose lives were cut tragically short at the age of 27….ie. a group of rock stars that all died when they were 27 years old. The most famous include rock stars, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones and the great bluesman Robert Johnson. Amy Winehouse now joins the list.

Though no official cause of death has been issued, Winehouse was found dead today at her apartment in London. Winehouse was a gifted Grammy winning singer and songwriter who was plagued - like many members of the 27 Club - by a deep desire to put massive amounts of chemicals into their bodies.

If you’re interested in the entire membership of the 27 Club, you can check out the Wikipedia page for the 27 Club that lists the members as well as their dates and causes of death. Interesting notes on that particular article, four of the more famous 27 Club members died within a two year period, several others died at 27 as well during that time period from 1969-1971. Also Kurt Cobain’s cause of death is listed as “ruled as suicide by shotgun,” seemingly because of the conspiracy theory (or fact, who knows) that his wife Courntey Love actually murdered Cobain.

No word yet on whether or not Winehouse had a white lighter in her possession. If you don’t know what that means, well, Google it, and if you’re a musician that’s 27 years old….don’t carry a white cigarette lighter (including those ones with the shrinky plastic covers over white plastic).