Dead rockstars who returned from the afterlife

The lifestyle of many rockers has often flirted very closely with death, mainly due to an excessive passion for drugs. Among those who came close to saying goodbye prematurely we can mention the bassist of Motley Crue Nikki Sixx and the singer of Depeche Mode Dave Gahan who later said they had had out-of-body experiences around the time they were declared dead. While the guitarist of Guns N’ Roses Slash and the frontman of Panther Phil Anselmo They were on tour when they overdosed. The frontman of Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme he was undergoing surgery for an infection when he nearly suffocated from an oxygen tube that was inserted down his throat during the operation. The following are their stories.

Slash in the San Francisco leg of the tour Guns N’ Roses together with Metallica in 1992, he was visited by some drug dealers in his hotel room at five in the morning. In 2004 he told the British newspaper The Guardian what happened: “They had all kinds of things and I took everything. I went out into the corridor, met a waitress and asked her where the lift was and then, bam! I collapsed.” When paramedics revived him they were told he had been in cardiac arrest for eight minutes, practically dead. “They took me to the hospital, but I said ‘I’m fine,’ signed the release, went back to the hotel and we flew to the next concert.”

On December 23, 1987, while he was at a party with some friends, the bassist of Motley Crue Nikki Sixx he overdosed on heroin. There was an attempt to revive him by his then girlfriend Slash, Sally McLaughlinbut it didn’t work and then the paramedics were called. Sixx was given two injections of adrenaline and, after being on the verge of dying for two minutes, he woke up in the ambulance. In “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band”Sixx revealed that he had an out-of-body experience. “I tried to sit up to understand what was happening. I thought it would be difficult to lift my body. But to my surprise, I straightened up suddenly, as if I weighed nothing. Then I felt as if something very delicate grabbed my head and pulled me upwards. Above me, everything was brilliant white. I looked down and realized that I had left my body. Nikki Sixx – or the dirty, tattooed container that once had it contents – lay covered face to foot with a sheet on a stretcher as paramedics wheeled him into an ambulance.”

The experience with the death of the frontman of Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme took place in 2010 on an operating table, where he was resuscitated. There had always been talk of knee surgery, but in 2013 a Marc Maron He confessed to having contracted a staph infection that wouldn’t heal “because my immune system was completely destroyed.” During the operation he suffocated due to an oxygen tube inserted into his throat and was brought back to life with a defibrillator. “I didn’t see any tunnels or anything. But when I woke up, I knew something was wrong. Someone had hurt me, something had been stolen from me. I had lost something. I’ve always heard music in my head since I was a kid. When I woke up, I didn’t hear anything for a couple of years. That hit me. My doctor then told me, ‘I thought I lost you.'”

On May 28, 1996, while he was at Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angelesthe frontman of Depeche Mode Dave Gahan he overdosed on a mixture of heroin and cocaine and died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As happened to Nikki Sixx he too, as told to the German newspaper Bild, had an out-of-body experience. “The first thing I realized in the hospital was that I was out of my body. I was floating under the ceiling and I could observe exactly what was happening below me: paramedics were running around my body and trying to save me. I screamed that I was actually not lying there, but I was above them. I think it was my soul screaming, it had already left my body and had become a witness to what had happened to my body. By then I was clinically dead, my heart was no longer beating. Those seconds It felt like hours. Suddenly, there was complete, terrifying darkness around me. As if someone had turned off the light.” When Gahan awoke to find that he was handcuffed, police officers standing next to his bed had arrested him for drug possession.

After a concert on July 13, 1996 at Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheater in Dallasthe frontman of Panther Phil Anselmo he died of a heroin overdose for a full four minutes. In a 2015 interview with High Times, Anselmo defined it “the most humiliating night of my life”. When he came to in the ambulance, it took some time before he realized what had happened. “I had all these tubes attached to me and I was like, ‘What the fuck!’