It is believed by police that Nick was intoxicated at the time he fell at around 4am on Saturday, whilst attending a party, neighbours called police to report an emotionally disturbed person, however by the time they had arrived Blossom had fallen onto the second-floor balcony of an adjoining apartment building, landing head first on the spiked fence. One bystander, Tiffany Nagel, who was visiting her sister said, “We heard screaming, and we thought someone was trying to break in, medics brought him through our window. He looked like a little boy. He was screaming, and he stopped talking once they got him. He just went silent.”

Nicholas Blossom had attended the party with his band mate Corey Mullee, the pair are in the rock band Alaska Alaska and had arrived at the rooftop party on their bikes, according to police Blossom was sat alone on a window ledge at 4am screaming that he “hated everybody”.

Doctors have said that Blossom’s prognosis is good despite the severity of his injury, Blossoms mother Emily said, “He is out of surgery and making some jokes, the doctor tells us that he was very lucky.”

Picture courtesy of Chris Isherwood

Both men managed to open the door and attempted to jump out in between a gap. Fuchs friend successfully got across to safety however, on his attempt the drummers clothes became caught and subsequently yanked him back and caused him to fall to his death, shortly after 12.30am.

Friends had raced to the scene upon calls from the drummer exclaiming he and his friend were trapped and found Fuchs in the elevator shaft. Paramedics were called and he was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3.30 am.

Fuchs had just recently returned from touring with Maserati a psychedelic group, he had also in the past drummed for punk bands LCD Soundsystem Juan MacLean & !!!. This is not the first time !!! have lost a drummer in 2005 Mikel Gius met a tragic end after he was knocked of his bike.

The original licensing agreement ended in December and after failing to reach an agreement, YouTube, which is owned by Google decided to block thousands of music videos to UK users.

The PRS, which has now been rebranded PRS for Music, collects and pays royalties to its members when a piece of music is sold, broadcast or performed in public as well as being made available online.

Google has agreed to pay the PRS a large lump sum, which will be backdated to January and cover official music videos as well as user generated content and music played in the background on TV shows.

A spokesman for YouTube said that the blocked videos will start to appear again in the next couple of days.