whaaaat?
Posted on 09/20/2015 8:12:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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It’s been hard to avoid tragic tales of troubled musicians lately. Two recent documentaries, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (on HBO) and Amy (in theaters), chronicle the lives, and early demises, of Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, respectively, beloved singers whose struggle with drugs, depression and the consequences of fame precipitated their deaths at age 27. Another recent biopic, Love & Mercy, takes us inside the head of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, who only just survived such swirling forces and more in his own life.
In some ways, like Achilles, the legendary Greek warrior in Homer’s Iliad beset with inner conflict, these artists sense that joining the tour and pursuing earthly glory could mean dying young, but many choose to embrace it nonetheless. “[I]t’s better to burn out than to fade away,” Cobain wrote in his suicide note. Of course, such tales of downfall and destruction are not limited to musicians as well known as Cobain, Winehouse and Wilson. Indeed, according to the alarming findings of one new study, pop musicians more broadly tend to live up to 25 years less on average than the rest of us, and have much higher rates of death by accident, suicide and homicide.
But is it just the temptations, hazards and vicissitudes of life on the road and in the limelight that are to blame for such numbers and destructive tendencies? Or are these musicians really just playing out a life strategy that lies dormant within almost all of us should we be placed in the path of fame’s freight train?
Who have you recorded with?
whaaaat?
Does Chuck Berry know about this?
What about his cousin, Marvin Berry?
What about his cousin, Marvin Berry?
Keith will probably be around to witness the formation of the next super-continent.
The only reason Keith’s still around is that the massive amounts of drugs he’s taken has pickled his insides. At least the undertaker won’t need embalming fluid when he does finally die.
Those guys have had a lot of down time in between tours. Thafs why.
Rockers have a long way to go before their early demise numbers reach the level of the cross dresser crowd.
"Downtime, what's that?"
The way of a transgressor is hard.
Keith is actually quite bright and lucid, I highly recommend “Life”, his autobiography.
This is a list of entertainers dating back to 1892 who have died at the age of 27.
An adorable Amy Winehouse - Jonathan Ross Interview
Age 20 — before she was wrecked by drugs and fame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcG0pBhKPA
He’s amazing.
I know guys his age that look much worse.
My Ham Radio club has a few :-)
People just get old and wrinkly... lol
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