I shall try to piss off everyone with one post here.
The Doors while an ok band would have been way less succesfull had they been from the UK, they were an LA band at a time US rock music was dominated by the British, as such there was a certain level of patriotic chauvanism about their promotion, they really weren't any better than Procul Harem or the Moody Blues.
Bruce Lee would not have become a mythic charachter had he not died, he would have probably followed a Norris, Seagal or Van Dam career curve just because martial art films are limited in their following, and his acting chops were at best ok. Had he made Fist of Fury 2, 3, 4, and 5 we would not view him in the same hallowed light.
Tupac was a passable rapper but rap is an industry that limits its performers to one or two succesfull albums in order to keep on exploiting young illeducated black kids and the young equally dumb white kids who buy their product, therefore Tupac and Biggie would have faded quicker than a mayfly had they not died, replaced by 50 Cent and Eminem regardless, who have since been replaced by etc etc etc.
Someone who did die too early, Otis Redding, who while he didn't die young, did die at the peak of his artistic powers and had he lived would have altered the direction of black music in the late 60's and 70's.
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