Darby Crash

Although he only appeared on a handful of singles, one full-length album, and one movie documentary during his short life, Germs frontman Darby Crash certainly left his mark on the punk rock world. Few rock "singers" (the term must be used loosely in Crash's case) pushed themselves to such dangerous and fearless extremes. Born Jan Paul Beahm on September 26, 1958, Crash endured a troubled childhood: his older brother died from a heroin overdose while Jan was still a child and he tried to find his real father (whom his mother never married) when he was a teenager, only to disco...