Rock and roll legends who died young imagined in old age with the help of photo technology

[dipsydoodle]

Some of the greatest talents in modern music were cut down in their prime, leaving fans to guess what sort of heart-stopping guitar riffs Jimi Hendrix may have come up with had he lived past 27, or how John Lennon would have continued to shape rock & roll as we know it had he not been gunned down at age 40.

While there's no way to know the genius rock anthems that could have been, thanks to these 12 age-progressed portraits commissioned by Sachs Media we can at least see what our idols might look like today.

John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Keith Moon, Elvis Presley, Mama Cass Elliot, Kurt Cobain, Dennis Wilson, Bobby Darin, and Karen Carpenter have all gotten the treatment and the results make for a fascinating trip into a future denied by fate.

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'Through this series of images, we hope to honor them and evoke some of the magic they brought to millions of their fans,' said Sachs Media's CEO Ron Sachs, who commissioned the project, 'even as we ponder what wonderful new contributions they still could have made.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510352/What-worlds-greatest-music-legends-looked-like-lived-fade-away.html#ixzz2lBCj5JIb

[Suich]

1. Those are areally cool!

Thanks!

[femmocrat]

2. The Elvis one is pretty cool.....

the Jim Morrison one doesn't remotely resemble him.

[Aristus]

5. I don't entirely agree.

The smile was cut and pasted from an existing photograph of Morrison. It only seems unrecognizable because toothy, open-mouthed smiles weren't really Morrison's thing, so there are very few of them.

I'm guessing the photo artist who put the image together must have made a hypothetical leap that after age 27, when the real Morrison died, the fictional one must have gotten clean and sober. If he had survived to age 70 continuing his astounding overindulgence, he would look a lot more haggard than that.

[pipi_k]

3. Wow...awesome!!!! N/t

[hibbing]

4. These freak me out

Hey,
Thanks for posting this, some of them looked a lot younger than I think they actually would look, but it was cool.

Peace

[Tabasco_Dave]

6. I think John Lennon would be bald

his hairline was receding pretty fast in his final years.

[Samantha]

7. I loved this!

Thanks for posting it.

Sam

[bluesbassman]

8. They are all pretty cool, but no way Keith Moon would look that good...

He lived way too hard to not have more mileage on his face.