Shannon Hoon was just 28 when he overdosed on cocaine in his band’s tour bus after a years-long struggle with addiction.
Blind Melon was supposed to play a show in New Orleans on Oct. 21, 1995. Their tour bus was parked on St. Charles Avenue, and the band’s energetic frontman, Shannon Hoon, was lying inside. But he wasn’t resting between performances.
He was dead.
Just hours before, the 28-year-old had been an electric, unpredictable lead singer who had charmed and worried the world in equal measure. Now, he was gone, a casualty of a battle he had fought publicly, loudly, and tragically…