Gram Parsons: Parsons used to hang tough with Keith Richards, so the man could keep up. But still, having enough morphine in his blood to kill three regular users proved enough to fell the 26-year-old cosmic country star. Just one year shy of making it to the 27 Club, too. Before kicking it, Parsons had expressed to his buddies that he wanted to be cremated at Joshua Tree, but his stepdad had other plans, perhaps financially motivated, and was having the body taken to Louisiana to be buried. Parsons' friends didn't like that plan, though, so they stole the body from LAX using a "borrowed" hearse, drove it out to the desert, loaded five gallons of gasoline into the coffin, lit a match, and created a fireball so big that the cops came running to put it out. Which they did, and found 35 pounds of Gram still left behind. So technically, that's the most amazing thing at any of these death scenes, except for the fact that he was already dead at the time.