And it's still going on

Suggested reading:  Kill Your Friends by John Niven (you can only get it in the UK), I found this book on MySpace (someone changed my MySpace account to the UK version and I don't know how to change it back) and I have a feeling it explains one (of many) rock related deaths of the 80's era, particularily the suicide of Ian Curtis (whose band members subsequently reformed as the rock group New Order, with an electronic side project entitled Getting Away With It).