David McGowan

friend Frank Zappa at the PMRC hearings

testified alongside our old friend Frank Zappa at the PMRC hearings

Phil Hartman, the Saturday Night Live alumnus who was murdered in his Encino home on May 28, 199

the distinctive CSN logo for Crosby, Stills & Nash.

All died on July 1, 1981

All died on July 1, 1981, all by bludgeoning, and all at the same location

He was also a drug supplier to various members of the Laurel Canyon aristocracy, including Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night.

Williams had no shortage of fans among the Laurel Canyon and British Invasion bands. The Beatles scored a hit with his Dizzy Miss Lizzy and the Rolling Stones covered his She Said Yeah

Williams also tried his hand at acting, including a co-starring role alongside O.J. Simpson in 1974’s The Klansman

Lennon was, as is fairly well known, murdered on December 8, 1980, in front of New York’s Dakota Apartments, which had been portrayed by filmmaker Roman Polanski in his film Rosemary’s Baby as a den of Satanic cult activity