On New Year's Day in 1953, country music's first superstar Hank Williams died of what could be considered an early-era overdose--heart failure due to a lethal combination of morphine and alcohol. He was the first superstar musician to die in this manner, issuing in an era that would see the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis, and many many more.
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