Damn Chet Baker. Or, damn! Chet Baker. He wanted to convince you he was too cool to be sad, and he did exactly that. He was one of those artists you thought would be around forever.

Then, in 1988, he fell to his death from the balcony of his Amsterdam hotel room.

They say nobody knows how he really died. His long-time heroin use was well-documented. Did he OD? Get in the middle of a deal gone bad?

This article claims to tell the facts surrounding Baker’s death. In any case, sadness won. Damn sadness. Damn! Sadness.