Here are the final meals of some famous dead musicians. (Grunge)
When celebrities pass away before their time, we often find minor details from their final moments fascinating.
JOHN LENNON
According to "Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity," December 8, 1980, was an eventful day for Lennon. Before heading out for a Rolling Stone photo shoot with photographer Annie Leibovitz and a three-hour radio interview to promote his latest album, "Double Fantasy" (which he learned that morning had been certified gold for sales of half a million copies), Lennon ate breakfast at Café La Fortuna, a restaurant near his apartment in Manhattan's Dakota building, where he ordered the eggs Benedict. After his work activities, Lennon grabbed lunch at the Stage Deli, and according to his manager, Gill Kashkin, in "Last Suppers," he had a corned beef sandwich.
That night, according to History, Lennon was about to walk into the Dakota when Mark David Chapman, for whom Lennon had autographed an album earlier that day, shot four bullets at Lennon at short range with a .38-caliber handgun. Lennon died of his wounds on the way to the hospital. He was 40. (Grunge) - (Killing Legend)
KURT COBAIN
As the singer, main guitarist, and chief songwriter of the Washington state trio Nirvana, Kurt Cobain launched a rock revolution in the early 1990s. The Seattle sound, or grunge, defined guitar music in the 1990s, a style pioneered by the down-tuned, punk-meets-metal melodies and meandering, poetic lyrics of massive Nirvana hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Heart-Shaped Box."
The Madison Park outpost of Cactus, a small chain of restaurants in the Seattle area, was the place where Kurt Cobain ate his last documented meal. On the night of April 3, 1994, according to the restaurant, Cobain sat in the outdoor seating area, despite the cold weather, with some friends. The party started their meal with dessert and ordered Cactus' signature specialty sweet: Bananas Dulce, in which the fruit is sautéed with brown sugar and rum. Cobain and friends dined, and went to a movie theater to see "The Piano."
Five days later on April 8, per Biography, Cobain's body was found at his Seattle home by an electrician hired to work the property. Rolling Stone reported a shotgun sat on Cobain's chest and a suicide note was found nearby. Cobain's autopsy found he had heroin and the painkiller valium in his system, and that he'd actually died a couple of days before the discovery; Cobain was 27.
JIMI HENDRIX
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Jimi Hendrix's period on top of rock music lasted barely four years, but he did a lot in that time, combining blues and rock with innovative guitar playing and amplification to create a wholly original and psychedelic sound, as heard in songs like "All Along the Watchtower" and "Purple Haze," and seen during memorable performances at Woodstock and that night when he set his own instrument on fire.
Hendrix drank a lot of red wine at a party held in London by former Monkee Michael Nesmith, according to "Rock Obituaries: Knocking On Heaven's Door," and in the early morning hours of September 18, 1970, returned to the basement apartment at the Samarkand Hotel, rented out to Monika Danneman, Hendrix's supposed fiancée. There, Hendrix ate a tuna sandwich, consumed nine barbiturate pills (18 times the regular dosage), talked with Danneman for a few hours, and then fell asleep. In the morning, Danneman discovered Hendrix's dead body, and while already deceased, his death was pronounced at a hospital. The cause of death: The 27-year-old guitarist overdosed on.
ELVIS PRESLEY
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Elvis Presley was known as "The King of Rock n' Roll," and he was certainly the genre's first superstar, shocking and delighting in equal measure with his country-influenced drawl and hip-swiveling dance moves. After selling millions of albums and scoring dozens of hit songs, Presley settled into a role as an elder statesman of rock in the 1970s, frequently performing bombastic shows in Las Vegas in sparkly jumpsuits and spending most of his time at his Graceland estate in Memphis.
By August 1977, according to "Elvis: Caught in a Trap," the singer's weight had climbed to 250 pounds, and he'd been placed on a restrictive diet to lose weight before a tour. He was known to regularly eat multiple hot fudge sundaes in one sitting, and, on August 16, he ordered some ice cream from the kitchen. With his diet in mind, staff sent a small-for-Presley portion of four scoops of ice cream and six cookies.
Hours later and unable to sleep while laying in bed with partner Ginger Alden, (per "PBS NewsHour") while also purportedly dealing with a severe constipation episode (per the Daily Express), Presley went into his bathroom to move things along, bringing the book "A Scientific Search for the Face of Jesus" to read while the time passed. While sitting on the toilet, Presley suffered a heart attack and Alden found him face down on the floor, unresponsive. Rushed to Baptist Memorial Hospital, doctors couldn't revive Presley and he was pronounced dead at the age of 42.
KEITH MOON 
The Who earned a reputation as one of the loudest bands on earth (via UCR), and that noisy, propulsive hard rock was what it was in major part because of Keith Moon, who provided frenetic, difficult, and technically precise drumming on the band's songs in the 1960s and 1970s. According to Rolling Stone and "Good Morning America," Moon was also a vociferous consumer of alcohol, and he attempted to reign in his hard-partying ways in the late 1970s by going on Heminevrin, a medication to treat alcoholism."
On September 6, 1978, according to Classic Rock, Moon attended a party thrown by Paul McCartney at a diner in the Covent Garden area of London to celebrate the birthday of deceased early rock star Buddy Holly, in advance of the premiere of "The Buddy Holly Story" film later that evening. Moon, trying to limit his alcohol intake, cut himself off at two glasses of champagne, and upon returning home in the middle of the night, asked girlfriend Annette Walter-Lax to prepare a meal, and she cooked up some lamb cutlets. Around 4 a.m., he took a large dose of Heminevrin and fell asleep, woke up at 7:30 a.m. and demanded more lamb chops. He ate those, took some more pills, and fell asleep again. He never woke up and was pronounced dead at around 6 p.m. on September 7.
Whitney Houston
Hamburger, Fries, And A Turkey Sandwich
In the hours after singer Houston's death on February 11, 2012, a photo was leaked from the Beverly Hilton Hotel room where she had passed. The photo showed what was believed to be Houston's last meal, one she'd ordered from room service earlier in the day.
The items on the tray included a hamburger, fries, a turkey sandwich, champagne, and beer.
Jim Morrison
Sweet And Sour Chinese Food
Competing theories exist about the last days of The Doors' frontman Morrison's life but, according to his longtime girlfriend Pam Courson, he spent his last night with her enjoying dinner and a movie in Paris. It's not entirely clear if they actually ate together, but the consistent element in tellings of what happened that night was the inclusion of Chinese food.
Morrison reportedly ate something of the sweet and sour variety, often presumed to have been chicken, alongside multiple beers. During the early morning hours of July 3, 1971, Morrison accidentally overdosed on heroin and died at the age of 27.
