Every generation has a significant celebrity death: John F Kennedy, Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse.
I’ll never forget what I was doing when my idol, actor, River Phoenix passed away in October 1993 at age 23. I was staying at a mate’s place in Edinburgh over Halloween. A few of us had just returned from a night’s clubbing when I saw a TV news bulletin reporting that River Phoenix was dead. What made it even more shocking was that this squeaky-clean twentysomething had succumbed to a coke and heroin overdose after leaving Johnny Depp’s Hollywood nightclub, The Viper Room.