Rock Stars Die Young Shock
By Helen Potter
If your lifelong dream is to be a rock star, you might want to start reconsidering – a new study suggests your lifelong dream might mean a lifeshort reality.Research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has compared the longevity of musical stars once they had achieved chart success with that of the general population, matched for age, sex and ethnicity etc etc. It found that pop stars had twice the chance of dying young. Unsurprisingly, long-term drug or alcohol problems were responsible for more than one in four of the deaths.