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Kevin Dubrow’s Cause Of Death Revealed

December 11, 2007

Kevin Dubrow, who was the lead singer of the band Quiet Riot, died on November 25 but at the time no one knew what he had died from. The autopsy has come back to say that Dubrow died from a drug overdose. This is a likely story when it comes to rock stars but it doesn’t make it any less sad.

Clark County coroner’s office said that he died from cocaine intoxication but that it was by accident. The overdose comes as a shock for many of Dubrow’s friends because even though he had gotten a reputation for living the rock star life, with partying all the time and doing drugs, when he moved to Las Vegas in 1995 he seemed to calm down. He lived a much healthier lifestyle by working out daily and eating healthy food. He seemed to have stopped doing drugs and drinking. So, many of his friends thought he was clean and sober.

Dubrow, who was 52 when he died, was found dead at his home on November 25. Police were called to 4800 Mountain Valley Road by a neighbor of Dubrow’s because they wanted them to check on him to make sure he was fine. Obviously when they arrived at his home everything was not fine. It didn’t look like there was any forced entry into the home and nothing looked suspicious.

Dubrow started the band back in 1975 with guitarist Randy Rhoads. Rhoads didn’t stay with the band; he ended up joining Ozzy Osbourne’s band. After Rhoads left is when Quiet Riot started to hit it big because of Dubrow’s stage presence and his scratchy voice. Their third album came out in 1983 and it was titled “Metal Health”. This was their best selling album and put them in the books of metal by selling 5 million copies because of their single “Cum on Feel the Noize”. This album also was the first metal album to hit number 1 on the Billboard chart.

According to Lonn Friend, who was a rock journalist and an author, “Without Quiet Riot, there would have never been a Motley Crue or a Poison or Ratt. They were the first.”

Dubrow got kicked out of Quiet Riot in the late 1980’s and then he tried to put a new band together in the early 1990’s that was like the Quiet Riot. They had just recently played at the Henderson Pavilion.

Dubrow was a big influence on the metal world. He did have some demons in his life that he was working through but he was trying to live a sober and healthy life. It just seems like his demons got the best of him. He will be greatly missed by many people.

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