Money does buy happiness, it can get you freedom, which is more important than anything. And if he didn't like what he was doing, well he should have just jacked it in He had that freedom and most people don't He still would've had the money, and a family. It's not a difficult choice, is it? He was a brilliant musician and everything, but it was stupid for him to go and kill himself. Why would you want to kill yourself if you had that much money?"What has Kurt Cobain bequeathed to his millions of fans? Some of the greatest music of the Nineties, a lot of ripped jeans, and even more questions about who he was and who they are, too.IT'S BETTER TO BURN OUT THAN FADE AWAYJIMI HENDRIX: The innovative blues guitarist died on 18 September 1970 after choking on his own vomit His death remains a mystery. He was thought to have suffered depression after he had to support the Monkees.

Reports of a suicide note are still hotly disputed.JANIS JOPLIN: Years of drugs and alcohol abuse had savaged her body. The heroin overdose that killed her on 4 October 1970 was regarded as inevitable by many. Like Kurt Cobain, it was more a case of "when" rather than "if". Joplin was nearing completion of her final album, Pearl, at the time.KEITH MOON: His wild-eyed clowning with the Who provided the perfect antidote to singer Roger Daltrey's on-stage preening and Pete Townshend's guitar heroics Moon was an awesomely powerful drummer. He died on his 31st birthday, 23 August 1978, after overdosing on pills prescribed to treat alcoholism.JIM MORRISON: Poetic genius and rock god to some, pretentious, overblown pseud to others. Morrison died in a bath in Paris from a heart attack, though his years of excess almost certainly played a role.

Judging by the albums the remaining members of the Doors cobbled together, he jumped ship not a moment too soon.ELVIS PRESLEY: The most famous case of rock'n'roll burn-out, now the butt of a million tasteless cheeseburgers-and-pills jokes. Presley's weight ballooned and his excessive use of barbiturates became almost as shocking as his vaudevillian dress sense. Official cause of death was heart attack, but no one was fooled.SID VICIOUS: After a disastrous American tour the Sex Pistols self-combusted, and Sid freewheeled for a year before his death from a heroin overdose on 2 February 1979. He died while on bail after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death four months earlier.HANK WILLIAMS: Seminal country musician He had already lost jobs through alcoholism. Heading for a New Year's Day show in Ohio, Williams died in the back of a limousine from a heart attack brought on by drugs and alcohol.

A traffic cop had stopped the limo earlier and remarked on Williams's cadaverous appearance.BRIAN JONES: The Rolling Stones guitarist was found dead in his swimming pool on 3 July 1969. Two days later, Mick Jagger dedicated a poem by Shelley to Jones at a free concert in Hyde Park. Even the Hells Angels policing the crowd were touched.Ryan Gilbey. In those dark, guilty hours before dawn, the presenters at Talk Radio UK have found a whole new way of dealing with sleepless young women. At 4.30am on Tuesday, after the Elvis-lives-and-works-as-a-chauffeur story from Anita and the coverage of that poor young Brit who maybe gonna fry, hosts Chad Benson and Mike Hanson say they want line seven, want to talk to Helen from Bradford.

Mike: Hi, Helen, you want to flirt with somebody? Helen: With Chad.Chad: Helen, how are you? Do you like me? Then I'm coming to Bradford! What do you look like?Helen: I've got dark brown hair ...Chad: Excellent!Helen: Just past my shoulders.Chad: Yes!Helen: Blue eyes.Chad: Blue eyes!Helen: I'm tall, 5ft 6.Chad: Oooh! You got long legs!Helen: I've got long fingernails.Chad: What else? Are you in shape?Helen: Yuh.Chad. Excellent! You got a boyfriend?Helen: No.Chad: How old are you?Helen: 18.Chad: You wanna be my girlfriend? I'm coming up!Mike: How much do you weigh, Helen? Are you petite? Slender?Helen: Yeah. I go to aerobics.Chad: Oooh! Excellent! Are you at school? What do you want to do when you grow up?Helen: I'd like to be a radio presenter, actually.Chad: No you don't It's a crappy job I don't think I'm going to do it after this week I'm serious.He is serious. Chad is off, not entirely of his own free will, to be replaced at the beginning of next week by another presenter who may also be looking for a girlfriend in the small hours.Chad, 24, a Californian, was there at the birth of Talk Radio UK in mid- February, that hype time when the talk was all of "shock jocks" and radio like it's never been. Now, like much of the station, Chad is being reconsidered.The news from 76 Oxford Street has not been good this week: audience figures were reported to be lower than hoped for, much lower, so low that some programmes didn't even register on the scale.