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Burning Out Rather Than Fading Away
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
11:19:00 AM EDT
Hearing New Way Home -- Foo Fighters
This won't really come to news to anyone who's listened to music over the last 50 years:
Rock stars -- notorious for their "crash and burn" lifestyles -- really are more likely than other people to die before reaching old age.
A study of more than 1,000 mainly British and North American artists, spanning the era from Elvis Presley to rapper Eminem, found they were two to three times more likely to suffer a premature death than the general population...
More than a quarter of all the deaths were related to drugs or alcohol abuse, said the study in the Journal of Epidemial Community Health.
Well, yes: The combination of addictive personalities (as creative people so often are), being young, having to drag one's ass around the world, and having no one around who is willing to tell you "no."
Like just about everyone else in the world, when I was young I thought it would have been fun to be a rock star, and be famous and travel the world and have cute groupies and all that nonsense. A profound lack of genuine musical ability precluded that possibility even before I could enter the rock star fame lottery (much like, again, everyone else in the world), but in retrospect, even if I had had musical talent, and had managed to become a successful rock star, I doubt very seriously that it would have been a lifestyle even vaguely approaching healthy for me. Thank God I couldn't play guitar!
And now I'm a writer. Because that lifestyle is so much healthier!
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11:19:00 AM EDT
Hearing New Way Home -- Foo Fighters
Burning Out Rather Than Fading Away
This won't really come to news to anyone who's listened to music over the last 50 years:
Rock stars -- notorious for their "crash and burn" lifestyles -- really are more likely than other people to die before reaching old age.
A study of more than 1,000 mainly British and North American artists, spanning the era from Elvis Presley to rapper Eminem, found they were two to three times more likely to suffer a premature death than the general population...
More than a quarter of all the deaths were related to drugs or alcohol abuse, said the study in the Journal of Epidemial Community Health.
Well, yes: The combination of addictive personalities (as creative people so often are), being young, having to drag one's ass around the world, and having no one around who is willing to tell you "no."
Like just about everyone else in the world, when I was young I thought it would have been fun to be a rock star, and be famous and travel the world and have cute groupies and all that nonsense. A profound lack of genuine musical ability precluded that possibility even before I could enter the rock star fame lottery (much like, again, everyone else in the world), but in retrospect, even if I had had musical talent, and had managed to become a successful rock star, I doubt very seriously that it would have been a lifestyle even vaguely approaching healthy for me. Thank God I couldn't play guitar!
And now I'm a writer. Because that lifestyle is so much healthier!
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