Cass
Elliott death location (19th September 1941 to 29th July
1974)
I live near
Manchester and take regular trips down to London by coach. We stay in a hotel
in Docklands but every day the coach runs everyone into central London. It
drops us off on Park Lane. Before I go exploring London I always walk about 50m
down to Curzon Street to the
flat where Cass died. It’s become a sort of tradition. Musician Harry Nilsson
owned the flat but he was in demand in American and being away he loaned it to
out to friends. It was in the bedroom of flat 12 on the fourth floor that Cass
and Keith Moon died.
Four
years before Keith’s death the bedroom bore witness to the premature death of
Cass. She had performed two weeks of
sold-out concerts at the London Palladium. In that flat she retired to bed and
died of a heart attack aged 32. She was overweight and unhealthy but 32….you’re
just getting into second gear aren’t you? Rumours floated that she had choked
to death on a ham sandwich but the autopsy showed no traces of food (or drugs) in
her system. She was flown home and buried in Los Angeles.
Oddly
some of Keith Moon’s clothes were stored in one of the wardrobes when Cass was
staying at the flat. His assistant Dougal Butler called at the flat to retrieve
some of Keith’s belongings. He had to enter the bedroom to get to wardrobe. He glimpsed
Cass who he assumed was sleeping but she was very probably dead.
An
interesting article relating to the cursed flat is here...
The front of the
building…
And the back…
