​Before you go and get your panties all up in a bunch at this seemingly (at best) morbid listing of music idols that we predict will expire soon, ask yourself exactly why it is you're checking this blog to begin with?

Weren't you tickled pink when Jacko bit it a couple of years ago? Or when Lennon ate lead? Or that you didn't tell all your friends that you saw the Winehouse thing coming? And don't tell us "Bobby Brown" and "cocaine" didn't cross your minds with a chuckle this past weekend. C'mon, get the fuck outta here!

Celebrities die.

Some too young, some old enough to leave a solid catalogue. Some way too old, leaving behind a few years of great, tarnished by decades of crap.

We're just trying to have a little fun at the expense of their mortality. We took a peek into our magic crystal ball. We think it's on the money and stand by our predictions of these five joining the already impressive (and growing) alumni of 2012 like Johnny Otis, Mike Kelley, Etta James, King Stitt, and Leslie Carter.