Active: 70's, 80's Born: September 26, 1959
Jello Biafra, The Go-Go's, Lux Interior, Anthony Kiedis, Keith Morris, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Curt Kirkwood, Leonard Graves Phillips, Ian MacKaye, Mike Ness, John Denny, Kurt Cobain, G.G. Allin, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Henry Rollins, Jimmy Pursey, The Offspring, John Doe |  |
Although he only appeared on a handful of singles, one full-length album, and one movie documentary during his short life, Germs' frontman Darby Crash certainly left his mark on the punk rock world. Few rock "singers" (the term must be used loosely in Crash's case) pushed themselves to such dangerous and fearless extremes. Born Jan Paul Breahm on September 26, 1959, Crash endured a troubled childhood: his older brother died from a heroin overdose while Jan was still a child and he tried to find his real father (whom his mother never married) when he was a teenager, only to discover that he had died, too. Breahm found a kindred spirit in another outcast in school, George Albert Ruthenberg, who he met through a mutual drug dealer and shared the same appreciation for troublemaking and distaste for authority figures.
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