Here we go - New York Times Published Thursday September 25, 1991.

He committed suicide, taking an overdose of tranquilizers and alcohol, his family said.

To balance out more variations on this theme within the music community...

Edwin Pearce Christy - founder of the Christy Minstrels,(original) threw himself from a window

Clara Blandick - Auntie Em from The Wizard of Oz, suffocation

Albert Ayler - American jazz saxophonist, drowned in New York City river

Kurt Cobain - American singer of Nirvana, shotgun

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain - French violinist - stabbed himself

Cass - singer Mama's and Papa's - glutony (choked on beef-steak

Vachel Lindsay - American poet - syncopated jazz rhythms (The Congo etc) drank a bottle of Lysol
Charlotte Mew - English poet, quite remarkably drank Lysol too. (Fhweeu!)

Per Yngve Ohlin - Norwegian vocalist for the band Mayhem, cut his throat.

WOW !

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

It appears musicians have used almost every means immaginable - however the catagory of self immolation is still available for those seeking a novel approach for a musician to "shuffle off this mortal coil."