Photo Gallery: Truly Shocking Pop Star Deaths

Kurt Cobain, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, Tupac Shakur, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson John Popplewell/Zuma Press, Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images, Toronto Star/ZUMA Press, John Lennon Photo Archive / Yoko Ono, AP Photo, Telegraph UK/ZUMA Press

Michael Jackson left us much too soon, but he wasn't the only pop icon to do so. Not by a long shot. Elvis. Tupac. Kurt Cobain. Selena. They all met untimely doom in the form of drugs, bullets and fiery crashes.

Check out our gallery of some of the world's most respected and talented musicians, all of whom died long before their time.

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