After seeking an unorthodox cancer treatment in Germany for eight months, Bob Marley was returning to Jamaica when his flight stopped in Miami.

He was taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami (now University of Miami Hospital) on the morning of May 11, 1981, at the age of 36. The cancer had spread to his lungs and brain.

His final words to his son Ziggy were:
"Money can't buy life".

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On February 2, 1979, a small gathering occurred at Sid Vicious' girlfriend's (Michele Robinson) house to celebrate his release from Bellevue Hospital. Vicious was in the hospital from a failed suicide attempt after his previous girlfriend died at the Chelsea Hotel.

Although Vicious had gone through detox, his mother had brought heroin to the party. Vicious overdosed around midnight, but the party guests got him up and moving around. Around 3 a.m. Vicious overdosed again and died from accumulation of fluid in his lungs (a common symptom of heroin overdose).

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Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, lived in this $6 million until his death (at this location) of AIDS-related pneumonia on November 24, 1991. Mercury did not announce to the world that he had AIDS until 24 hours prior to his death.

The very worldly Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5, 1946. The Bulsara family moved to India in 1947. Mercury began piano lessons and music theory as he attended boarding school in Panchgani, just outside Bombay. The family moved to England in 1963.

The Mercury house on Logan still stands today. His former girlfriend, Mary Austen, was very close to Mercury and inherited the house where she still lives today.

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Rick James was found expired at this location on August 4, 2004. He had had a pulmonary and cardiac failure associated with a previous stroke, heart attack, and an installed pacemaker. The coroner's report said James had the following drugs (although at non-lethal levels) in his blood: alprazolam, diazepam, bupropion, citalopram, hydrocodone, digoxin, chlorpheniramine, methamphetamine and cocaine.

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Metallica bassist Cliff Burton died here in Sweden during a European tour in 1986. Burton was asleep in his bunk when the tour bus driver lost control. Burton was flung through the window and crushed under the flipped bus. The driver claimed to have hit a patch of black ice and didn't have any charges brought against him for the accident.

In 2006, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, a memorial stone in rural Sweden near Ljungby was erected near a roadside cafe across the street from the site of the accident.

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