Not Every Book Has a Playlist, but NOW Mine Does
Traffic Stop: Human Division’s Playlist 
Just incase any of you missed my first post regarding the playlist I have reposted it below. Enjoy the listening!!!!
I wanted to be creative with the chapter titles for Traffic Stop: Human Division (Cahill, 2023), so I decided to use song titles in honor of Musicians who died before their time. Two of the song titles belong to artists who are still with us as of 2022. This bibliography didn’t make it into print, but I spent a lot of time and brain power on generating the list so I wanted to offer it to my readers.
Like Layne’s character, I was obsessed in my younger years with famous people who ended their lives by suicide. Until I became a mental health therapist, I couldn’t wrap my mind around why someone who appeared to have everything would make that choice. Some of these artists did not commit suicide but rather made choices in their lives to die slowly (or rapidly, depending on the substance) with drug and alcohol dependence. Some mentioned here died young due to accidents or disease. The fact of the matter is, our culture was influenced by some of these big-name players and their art will be forever missed.
Here is the bibliography in order of chapter titles, explaining the artist who is no longer with us and if known, the cause of death. I also attached a link to the video so you can create your own soundtrack if you wish.
Part 1:
JOYRIDE Song by Roxette (lead singer Gun-Marie Fredriksson; born May 30, 1958 and died December 9, 2019 at age 61 from cancer).
HEART SHAPED BOX song by Nirvana (lead singer Kurt Cobain; born February 20, 1967 and died April 5, 1994 from suicide gunshot to the head).
I’m Sorry song by John Denver (born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. on December 31, 1943 and died October 12, 1997 at age 53 from a plane crash in Monterey Bay, California).
TURN, TURN, TURN Song by The Byrds (singer/songwriter Gene Clark; born November 17, 1944 and died May 24, 1991 at age 46 of throat cancer) and The Byrds (drummer Michael Clarke; born June 3, 1946 and died December 19, 1993 at age 47 from liver failure due to heavy alcohol consumption).
IS THIS LOVE song by Bob Marley (born February 6, 1945 and died May 11, 1981 at age 36 from Melanoma).
ONE LOVE song by Bob Marley (born February 6, 1945 and died May 11, 1981 at age 36 from Melanoma).
LOVE WILL TEAR US APART song by Joy Division (lead singer Ian Kevin Curtis; born July 15, 1956 and died May 18, 1980 at age 23 by suicide).
BEHIND BLUE EYES song by The Who (drummer Keith Moon; born August 23, 1946 and died September 7, 1978 at age 32 due to alcoholism).
AMERICAN GHOST DANCE song by Red Hot Chili Peppers (guitarist Hillel Slovak; born April 13, 1962 and died June 25, 1988 at age 26 from a heroin overdose).
ADDICTED TO LOVE song by Robert Palmer (singer/songwriter; born January 19, 1949 and died September 26, 2003 at age 54 from heart attack).
UNDER PRESSURE song by Singers/Songwriters David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947 and died January 10, 2016 at age 69 from liver cancer) and Freddy Mercury (born September 5, 1946 and died November 24, 1991 at age 45 from bronchopneumonia as a complication of AIDS).
MAN IN THE MIRROR song by Michael Jackson (born August 29, 1958 and died June 25, 2009 at age 50 of an accidental fentanyl overdose).
STEPPING STONE song by the Sex Pistols (singer Simon John Richie AKA Sid Vicious; born May 10, 1957 and died February 2, 1979 at age 21 from a heroin overdose and had several suicide attempts prior and was accused of murdering his girlfriend by stabbing her in the stomach).
Part 2:
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME song by Otis Redding (born September 9, 1941 and died December 10, 1967 at age 26 from a plane crash).
OVERKILL song by Men at Work (saxophone/flute/organ/piano/synthesizer and songwriter Greg Ham; born September 27, 1953 to April 19, 2012 at age 59 from alcoholism and heart attack).
WATERFALLS song by TLC; (artist Lisa Nicole Lopes, AKA “Left Eye”; born May 27, 1971 and died April 25, 2002 at age 30 from a car accident).
ZOMBIE song by The Cranberries; (singer/songwriter Delores Mary O’Riordan; born September 6, 1971 to January 15, 2018 at age 46 by drowning after excessive alcoholism intake).
RIDERS ON THE STORM song by The Doors (Jim Douglas Morrison; born December 8, 1943 and died July 3, 1971 at age 27 from a heroin overdose).
CASTLES MADE OF SAND song by Jimi Hendrix (born November 27, 1942 and died September 18, 1970 at age 27 from an accidental overdose).
I HAVE NOTHING song by Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963 and died February 11, 2012 at age 48 from drowning due to coronary artery disease and cocaine intoxication).
TEARS IN HEAVEN song by Eric Clapton (written about his 4-year-old son who fell from a New York apartment building in 1991).
ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME song by Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks; on June 16, 1971 and died September 13, 1996 at age 25 from a drive-by shooting).
DEVIL INSIDE song by INXS (lead singer Michael Hutchence; born January 22, 1960 and died November 22, 1997 at age 37 by a hanging suicide).REHAB song by Amy Winehouse (born September 14, 1983 and died July 23, 2011 at age 27 from alcohol poisoning).
PART 3:
ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE song by Mike + the Mechanics (singer/songwriter Paul Young; born June 17, 1947 and died July 15, 2000 at age 53 from a heart attack).
SEARCH IS OVER song by Survivor (lead singer Jimi Jamison born Jimmy Wayne Jamison on August 23, 1951 and died September 1, 2014 at age 63 from a hemorrhagic stroke from an acute methamphetamine intoxication).
WHEN DOVES CRY song by the artist formerly known as Prince (singer/songwriter Prince Rogers Nelson; born June 7, 1958 and died April 21, 2016 at age 58 from an accidental fentanyl overdose).
AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH song by singers Tammi Terrell (born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery on April 29, 1945 and died March 16, 1970 at age 24 from a brain tumor) and Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. on April 2, 1939 and died April 1, 1984 at age 44 from gunshot wound to the heart by his father Marvin Gay Sr.).
LISTEN TO ME song by Buddy Holly (born Charles Hardin Holley on September 7, 1936 and died February 3, 1959 at age 22 from a plane crash).
PUT YOUR DREAMS WHERE YOUR HEART IS song by The Pointer Sisters (June Antoinette Pointer on November 30, 1953 and died April 11, 2006 at age 52 from cancer).
POWER OF LOVE song by Laura Branigan (born September 3, 1952 and died August 26, 2004 at age 52 from a cerebral aneurysm).
FOREVER YOUNG song by Laura Branigan (born September 3, 1952 and died August 26, 2004 at age 52 from a cerebral aneurysm).
YOU MIGHT THINK song by the Cars (singer/songwriter Ric Ocasek; born Richard Theodore Otcasek on March 23, 1944 and died September 15, 2019 at age75 from natural causes).
BABY LOVE song by The Supremes (singer Florence Glenda Chapman Ballard; born June 30, 1943 and died February 22, 1976 at age 32 from alcoholism, depression, poverty, and heart attack).
MAYBE song by Janis Lyn Joplin (born January 19, 1943 and died October 4, 1970 at age 27 from a heroin overdose).
HOW SOON IS NOW? song by the Smiths (songwriters Johnny Marr born October 31, 1963 and Steven Patrick Morrisey born May 22, 1959).
Part 4:
IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD (I FEEL FINE) song by R.E.M (lead singer Bill Rieflinborn; born William Frederick Rieflin on September 30, 1960 and died March 24, 2020 at age 59 from cancer).
CARRY ON WAYWARD SON song by Kansas (violinist and vocalist Robby Steinhardt; born May 25, 1950 and died July 17, 2021 at age 71 from complications of acute pancreatitis).
WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN song by Billy Preston (born September 2, 1946 and died June 6, 2006 at age 59 from kidney disease, hypertension, and drug and alcohol abuse.
CARELESS WHISPER song by George Michael (born June 25, 1963 and died December 25, 2016 from dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and a fatty liver).
KILL YOUR IDOLS song by Static-X (born Wayne R. Wells on November 4, 1965 and died November 1, 2014 from multiple prescription drug toxicity)
OUT OF THE DARK song by Falco (born Johann “Hans” Holzel on February 19, 1957 and died February 6, 1998 at age 40 from a car accident).
ONCE IN A LIFETIME song by Talking Heads (keyboardist Bernie Worrell; born George Bernard Worrell, Jr. April 19, 1944 and died June 24, 2016 at age 72 of cancer)
I hope you have hope and if you need a new playlist enjoy!
Traffic Stop: Human Division 