He died 40 years ago today. From Bob Dearborn's The Olde Disc Jockey's Almanac...
February 28, 1974…Singer (Montego Bay) Bobby Bloom died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 28.
Remember kids, if you die an embarrassing or needless death, you will always be remembered for that instead of anything you accomplished when you were alive. That's just the way it is.
