![]() ![]() ![]() He drank himself to death (shades of Jimi Hendrix), married his 13-year-old cousin (shades of Jerry Lee Lewis), and a lot of people think he may have killed Mary Rogers in a psychotic, drugged out haze (shades of Sid Vicious). Poe gets all this simply for being Poe, not even for the recognition of his works. ![]() You'd hear more about her, but she and Andrew Eldritch of Sisters of Mercy are in a corner somewhere bitching about their record labels and not releasing awesome music like they should. Why? Because as a child she once dressed as him for Halloween. Of course, one of the most talented musicians of the late '90s and early '00s was called Poe. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the band loved his romantic, melancholy, emo-kid attitude. Is that good enough for you? The Fab Four name-dropped the man in one of their most famous songs, "I am the Walrus,": "Man you should've seen kicking Edgar Allan Poe." Among their many other heroes, Poe was also on the cover of Sgt. ![]()
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