Soundgarden and Audioslave's Chris Cornell Dead at 52

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Chris Cornell, frontman of generation-defining bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, was found dead in his Detroit hotel room late Tuesday night; police are investigating his death as a possible suicide. ABC News reports Cornell’s “wife had called a family friend and asked him to check on Cornell.” Upon arriving, “the friend forced open a hotel room door and found Cornell on the bathroom floor.”

Cornell was in Detroit for a stop on his latest tour with Soundgarden, and posted this to his Twitter account just hours before his death:

He was 52.

[ABC News]


Alan Thicke’s widow, Tanya Callau, claims she and the late actor (and father of Robin) were talking about having another child in the weeks immediately preceding his sudden death of a heart attack last December.

TMZ writes the couple, who were married for 11 years, “had an architect visit their Santa Barbara ranch in early December to draw up plans for a nursery,” and that they planned to use the eggs Callau had frozen three years ago.

Why are we leaning about this now? Because Callau might soon be sued by Thicke’s children.

[TMZ]


This morning’s Dirt Bag has been deeply sad, so this is my half-hearted attempt at lightening the mood.

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