I was reading a story about the greatest guitarists and one name that I had not heard before was Terry Kath from the band Chicago. He had one of the strangest deaths I’ve ever heard of.
Around 5 p.m., late afternoon of January 23, 1978, after a party at roadie Don Johnson’s home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, Kath — being a gun enthusiast — took a .38 revolver and put it to his head, pulling the trigger several times on the empty chambers. Picking up a semiautomatic 9mm pistol, Kath put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger, infamously saying, “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded.” (After showing the empty magazine to his friend.) However, one bullet remained in the chamber, killing him instantly — a week shy of his 32nd birthday. The circumstances of his death gave him the dubious distinction of being one of the first celebrities to be nominated for a Darwin Award.[5]