R.I.P. Quiet Riot’s Kevin DuBrow
November 25, 2007: Quiet Riot frontman Kevin DuBrow’s body was found in his Las Vegas home… dead at age 52. He was believed to have died six days earlier of an accidental cocaine overdose.
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