Musician/Murderer
 

Can you think of some good ones?

Joe Meek
Burzum
Phil Spector
Charles, erm, Manson

Leadbelly

William S. Burroughs (well, he made music in some kind of way)

billy ray cyrus, oh wait just wishful thinking.

Antonio Salieri

My favourite record of his is the one where he has lunch and talks about the food that he's eating while a jazz band plays in the background. It makes you feel like turning either anorexic or bulimic.

Did not G.G.Allin kill anybody?

Meek surely beats Spector in terms of eccentricity. Girl groups made to sing in his kitchen and sometimes threatened with a gun, amphetamine-fuelled electronic music, shooting his landlady and then himself. What a happy-clappy chap he was.

Bobby Beausoleil!

does sid vicious apply?

I've tried to avoid his name because he was crap.

i dont think he did actually kill anyone but he did do time for something else i am sure.

charles manson never killed no one

I was expecting the indie comment, at one point, hence the 'erm' before his surname. How predictable.

he had a hand in killing donald shea. just sayin'.

Try googling 'Charles + Manson + World + Peace' and see what comes up.

jon nödtveidt of dissection.

glen benton of deicide (he killed a squirrel!!!)
ted nugent
alice cooper.

"people sayyyy-ayyy-ayyy i'm no good."

Bertrand Cantat

The guys in the original lineup of Absurd.
Not a fan of that band in the least...

yeah, why their records go for so much, i will never know.

Elton John

Kate Bush

I can't believe no one has said it, and now I have to be the fool to do it!

Courtney Love
(fuck!)

Ian Curtis?

This is funny.

A note about Bertrand Cantat.
He's the leader of French band Noir Désir (once shared the same producer as Girls Against Boys; appeared on videos with Jon Spencer Blues Explosio, t-shirt).
He bashed his girlfriend to death, one drunken night.
His girlfriend was an actress; he had came to visit her on the set of her next picture, directed by the actress's mother. He had quit his wife and kids.
He got an 8 years jail sentence that's been recently commuted. He spent 4 years and is now partially free.
A court decision now states that he's not allowed to talk, write, sing anything about what happened; he's not allowed to express his guilt. Would he have written a song called "sorry", I'm not sure. Still, considering how horrible the actress's mother became after the loss of her daughter, anything he writes will be scrutinized and twisted, his lyrics checked, double-checked.
The whole thing ain't pretty.

thats only half true, but it is true that he got out of prison for that "murder" for writing a damn fine tune.. as a matter of fact he did that twice!

Bard "Faust" Eithun of Emperor

Which one of Zappa's Mothers was sent to prison on a Murder One conviction...?

So, Phil just got the old 2nd degree conviction. What now?

well, technically it was man slaughter as it was an accident, a stupid one but one nonetheless.

this one isn't a muso but an actor....

willis from different strokes

Reading about the young actors from Different Strokes depresses me...

Big Lurch

King Henry VIII

Varg Vikernes
Faust

Haha! I was excited to post this, but you beat me to it.

big lurch is by far the best answer so far

also, chi ali is a good one, killing his cousin for not returning his rare cds