Johnny Elichaoff, also known as Johnny Toobad during his stint as drummer with King Crimson's Robert Fripp, has passed away. Apparently he died in a suicide on Wednesday morning, November 12, 2014. He was 55.
Johnny Elichaoff fell from the top of a shopping center in Bayswater, west of London. It was the same ledge he'd been talked down from two weeks ago.
The music veteran worked with Robert Fripp in the League of Gentlemen, along with XTC's Barry Andrews and Sara Lee, later a touring musician with the B-52s.
He was also part of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves, and opened for Siouxsie Sioux and U2, before becoming the band manager of Tears for Fears, and Fairground Attraction.
Johnny Elichaoff battled an addiction to pain killers in the wake of a serious motorcycle accident in 2006, and divorced his wife and tv-star Trinny Woodall in 2009, after 10 years of marriage.
According to the Daily Mail, a small card was found at the scene of his death, which read: "Miss you always, T."
In a strange coincidence, the League of Gentlemen's other drummer, Kevin Wilkinson, also committed suicide by hanging himself in July 1999.
