09.04.07
From the Department of “Duh”
Rock stars more likely to die prematurely
I wonder, though, whether this holds true today - or, more interestingly, whether the risk factors are different (Tupac and Hendrix both died early, but from rather different causes).
Yoni Samlan said,
September 4, 2007 at 3:10 pm
the sample size is only 1000, though, with only 100 deaths, and their geographic studies between american and british artists are on even smaller samples. Throw in the scattershot timeline… well, i’m sure there’s a pretty sizeable margin of error on this one. Interesting anyways. And I definitely would be curious if the rate of deaths decreases heavily for certain types of bands - for example, members of vegan straightedge bands like AFI will probably live for a very long time given the major causes of death cited were drugs, alcohol, and heart attacks. And correlations between level of fame (platinum? multiplatinum? fame peaking or at an all-time low?) at the time of death would be interesting, if not statistically significant over the teensy sample sizes.