An All-Too-Real Prediction
While Waters might have been a little too generous with his prediction, he was right: Vaughan didn’t make it to 40. He lost his life when he was 35. His death, however, wasn’t attributed to the “white powder.” By the time he became a two-time Grammy-award winning guitarist, his personal life was falling apart. He divorced Lenora Darlene Bailey in 1979 and went down a spiral of “self-healing.”
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He was at the top of his game in the summer of 1990 – the same summer that Vaughan and Double Trouble headed out on a headlining tour across the United States. Then, after one concert in Wisconsin on August 26, 1990, Vaughan boarded a helicopter bound for Chicago. He (along with everyone else onboard) never made it.