Johnny Elichaoff found fame as a musician in 1982 as a rock drummer - also known as Johnny Toobad - who toured with the band League of Gentlemen, along with XTC's Barry Andrews and Sara Lee, later a touring musician with the B-52's.



Johnny Elichaoff was part of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves, and opened for Siouxsie Sioux and U2 after playing in his own group Baby and the Blackspots.



Johnny Elichaoff's musical career was interrupted in 1984 by a two-year stint in the Israeli army and a job with stockbrokers Bailey Shatkin before moving into rock music management and later becoming a life insurance and inheritance tax advisor.



Johnny Elichaoff openly spoke about his addiction to prescription painkillers following 20 operations on his broken leg after a motorbike accident in 2006, before being treated in a US rehab clinic in October that year.



Johnny Elichaoff died on November 12, 2014 when he fell from the top of a shopping center in Bayswater, west of London, the same ledge he'd been talked down from two weeks before.