6/27/2002: On the day before the scheduled first show of The Who’s 2002 U.S. tour, bass player John Entwistle, died in his hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Entwistle had gone to bed that night with a stripper, who woke at 10am to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack induced by an undetermined amount of cocaine. John was 57.