A note. Today's episode features some discussion of suicide that may be upsetting for some listeners.

The great jazz chumperter Miles Davis once said,

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

The moments without notes change the way we interpret the notes played,

turning it into a song. The lack of information makes the song interesting.

This also applies to the lives of famous musicians and their famous deaths.

A missing piece of information changes the way we interpret their deaths,

turning it into a crime story. And when a conspiracy theory surrounds the death of a musician,

that's double the reason to obsess. Today we're examining the top 10 mysterious musician deaths

and we're looking for the unplayed notes.

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from podcast.

I'm Ash and I'm Elena. Every week we'll highlight 10 fascinating stories of history's

most engaging and unsettling crimes, all picked by the podcast research gods.

This episode we are counting down the top 10 mysterious musician's deaths.

I think the reason that we like theorize about musician's deaths, even after we have quote-unquote

answers, quote-unquote, quote-unquote is because musicians really become like a part of our daily

lives and a lot of times you feel super connected to this person, even if you don't necessarily know them.

Oh yeah, that's exactly it because music's super personal. I think everybody can agree with that.

Yes, everybody feels like music is personal and when you feel like someone really kind of gets you

because you know, you're like, music speaks to my soul. This was written for me.

Like a certain person speaks to my soul. You kind of feel like you have a bond with them,

even though you don't know them at all and speaking from experience, I'm not going to lie.

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