The dead rock star is about to make another lucrative name for himself--as an artist.

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And you don't even have to be a dead rock icon for your artistic output to rise in value.

FORBES: The Art of Grunge

They star ex-models, ex-sports stars, would-be Marilyns, future Presidents (and First Ladies), dead rock stars, and has-beens of all types.

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And yet every summer legions of living-dead rock bands from the 1960s and 1970s rise up from their graves and drag their decaying carcasses across the stages of America's arenas, stadiums and county fairs.

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And vocals, bathed in old-school reverb, that lift Waits out of the gutter long enough for him to channel the ghost of some long-dead early rock idol.

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You may have proof rock is dead.

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As is traditional in this kind of story the phones are dead, so the good people of Castle Rock are on their own.

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Mr. CHRIS ROCK: (As Caretaker) I heard you were dead.

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Which is not fair, as rock is the umbrella under which so many bands fall and to say the genre as a whole is dead is to put a toe tag on all the subgenres as well.

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