Chords for Top 10 Musicians Who Surprisingly Didn't Die From Drugs

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_ _ _ _ [E] Some live fast [Gb] and die young, others [A] _ [N] don't.
My _ country's drug use is very short, we'll take all that.
_ _ _ _ Whatever.
Welcome to [Gb] WatchMojo.com, and today [D] we'll be counting down [E] our picks for the top 10 [Gb] musicians whose drug use [Am] probably should have killed them.
You could also say I've snorted half of Peru, [N] but, _ _ _ you know, it's what we did.
For this list, we've chosen musicians who battled their demons [A] for longer than humanly possible, and have made it through to the other side, or at least to older age.
I suppose a lot of people might be frightened to be me, but I'm quite happy to be.
_ _ _ _ _ Today _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] he's got a lust for life, but through the [Bm] 70s he nursed a heroin habit. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Rumors even [Bm] surfaced claiming the Stooges sprayed blood from used needles onto their apartment's walls.
Pop's [A] inability to stand up on [E] stage finally forced him into a [B] mental [Gb] institution [E] to get clean, though David Bowie smuggled him drugs.
Eventually Iggy got sober, and now he's as fit and [Gb] shirtless [G] as ever. _ _
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_ [E] _ He sang about cocaine, but [D] that's not the only drug Slohan [E] fell victim to.
His $16,000 [C] a week heroin habit almost [B] drove him to suicide, [E] but he never did it, because then [D] he'd have to stop drinking.
I had a couple of rock bottoms, which just brought me to my knees.
Not that they were any worse than anyone else's, it's just that at some point I hit, you know, [A] a wall.
After [Em] withdrawing from his career, enduring car crashes, health [Am] problems, and being so drunk he'd perform lying [D] down, Clapton finally reached that [A] crossroads, sobered up, and founded a rehab center in Antigua. _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Em] [Ab] Now _ _ _ _ _ he's _ clean and doesn't even smoke [Bb] cigarettes.
Then he had an [C] appetite for destruction.
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[E] _ [Cm] _ _ Slash [Bb] struggled with a heroin addiction [Eb] before GNR's debut album, and Axl Rose threatened to quit if he didn't [Ab] sober [Bb] up.
By 2001, Slash was diagnosed with a heart problem [Ebm] and given only a short time left to live, but [Bb] therapy and a pacemaker saved his life, and today he has no regrets.
[N] But it catches up with you at some point.
You don't see it coming.
There's an invisible line [Cm] that you cross.
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_ [C] _ _ _ He [E] didn't think he dressed like that sober. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Tyler and partner in crime Joe Perry were the toxic twins, but his habit of keeping [A] Jack and Coke, or just playing cocaine on stage, [D] prompted multiple rehab stints.
It takes you into another state, which isn't the original state that you wanted to be in, so it rapes you.
It rapes you of all that you wanted to be in the first place. _
In 2009, Tyler fell off [A] stage after [Am] falling off the wagon, and though [Bm] he claims it [G] boosted his creativity,
the [A] Demon of Screamin' confirmed that drugs damaged [D] his relationships, cost him millions, [Em] and gave him [G] Hepatitis C.
Snorting that, I fell off the stage.
Snorting Lunesta?
Of course.
You go to sleep, you're snorting it?
Yes, I was.
That shows you what kind of a drug addict I was.
Whoa.
Only the finest [Ebm] for me.
Number 6.
Brian Wilson. _
[Db] Wilson needed more than just good vibrations. _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ Hot, _ hash, [Ebm] LSD, cocaine, and more contributed to [Db] the Beach Boys' biggest [Gb] hits.
The cocaine was a beautiful high.
I mean, I could write songs, I'd get in an elated state, but the comedown was so god-awful.
I mean, it was so_
How long did it last, this high that you were doing?
Two [Ab] hours.
You got at least two hours of a high, then you got another hour and a half of nothing [Gb] but garbage.
Wilson's drug, alcohol, and food addictions also caused his absences from music, and the deterioration of his [Ab] voice and mental health. _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] Stints in the loony bin, assistance from a controversial therapist, [Gb] and Rhonda didn't help.
However, he made it through, and now, Brian's back.
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[E] _ [Dbm] _ _ _ [E] _ [A] Number _
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5.
Lemmy Kilmister.
But that's the way I like it, baby, I don't wanna live [Db] forever!
_ After rodeying and scoring drugs [Bb] for Hendrix, and being fired from Hawkwind for doing [Ab] the wrong drugs, [Abm] Lemmy formed pioneering [Ab] metal group Motorhead, which, by the way, is a euphemism for Speed [G] Freak.
I said that it made me a better person [A] _
for having taken it.
_ [N] But if you think you can do without drugs, go ahead and do without them, you know, because it's a very expensive hobby. _
_ _ [Gb] True to the [Ab] name, Lemmy consumes speed and acid, and each day he drinks a bottle of [Db] whiskey.
Buy in bulk, that's my advice.
But he's anti-cocaine and [B] heroin.
Despite his recent [Ab] diabetes diagnosis, he's still rocking and partying as [Db] hard as ever, unlike many of his [B]
contemporaries.
You know what's gonna do?
[Eb] You know what sustains?
You know what sustains, right?
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_ [D] Number [G] 4.
[D] Shane McGowan.
He should be the [Em] face of anti [A]-drug and anti-drinking campaigns. _ _
[G] Since I've been _ _ an_ _
_ _ _ _ sunshine_
He [D] lost teeth after [G] bailing during a boozing sesh, puked on [D] fans, tried to eat a Beach Boys [G] CD, was ratted out to police by Sinead O [D]'Connor so he quit heroin, and was [G] forced out of his own band [D] because of his drinking.
I was the only one who [G] drank [D] so much whiskey and so [G] [D] much_
Somehow he made it past his 30s, [G] and today he's still singing and hitting the [B] pubs.
What's it like out there tonight [N] in the crowd? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm_
drunk. _
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[D] Number 3.
[E] Ozzy [G] Osbourne.
There's no [D] suit, but [E] Ozzy is Iron Man.
[Bm] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] 1694, I _ _ [B]
[Em] will never be happy.
[B] For [D] decades, the Prince of [Em] Darkness mixed booze with every drug imaginable.
No, no, no, it's like_
we did_ _ _
[B] 16 days ago we got over_
from Japan. _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ He survived [D] overdoses, being fired from Sabbath, [B] [Gb] Randy Rhoades' death, and [D] pissing on [A] the Alamo while wearing women's clothes.
I got used [E] to that _ magic_
[Gbm] _
He [Gb] snorted ants and [A] chomped heads off bats and [E] doves.
Apparently his DNA makes him [Gb] capable of withstanding [Ab] such [Dbm] abuse, and while he may be forgetful, [N] he is alive.
Weak signal, that's about all I want.
What's that?
That weak signal.
_ [Eb] Jack!
[Bb] _ _ _ [G]
Can we let this _ f***ing_
this [Abm] television show work?
Number 2.
Nikki [Db] Sixx.
All [Gb] members of Motley [B] Crue lived the [Ab] sex, drugs, and rock and roll [Db] lifestyle.
[Abm] But it was Nikki Sixx who sank [B] deepest into drugs, specifically [Ab] heroin.
Smoking in the boys, I tell you [Eb] I was smoking in the [Bb] boys.
His troubled childhood and addictive personality meant this glam rock bassist had [Ebm] multiple overdoses and near-death experiences.
Actually, can you call being declared dead a near-death [N] experience?
I had a really bad overdose, ended up in the hospital, came out, shot up again, overdosed again,
and it was the next morning I woke up and the light just went on, and it was [A] over.
Number 1.
[E] Keith Richards.
_ [Abm] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [A]
Mafias!
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Never [A] fail to [E] test me! _ _
[Abm] _ [Db] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] You've heard the [Eb] stories.
Five trials on [Dbm] drug charges, used heroin [A] till the late 70s,
[E] quit cocaine after falling out of a tree [Dbm] in 2006, [E] was Johnny Depp's inspiration for Captain Jack [Abm] Sparrow, [Db] snorted his father's ashes.
Honestly, I could not resist.
I just scooped him up there, took out a straw, and seeded that.
_ [Dbm] Richards credits his endurance to [E] high-quality drugs and never using more than necessary, [A] whatever that means.
[E] Either way, it's not [Eb] unfair to wonder [Dbm] how this rolling stone made it to [Bm] old age.
It's the trick, isn't it? _
To survive.
It's [Gb] not just about [Bm] living forever, Jackie.
Do you [G] agree with our list?
Which musicians are you most surprised are still around?
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_ Never [Dbm] _ [A] fail to [E] test me!
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