And Elvis and Buddy Holly and Hank Williams and Ronnie Van Zant and everyone else in the music industry who has died in their prime, did this really need to be published?
Rock stars more likely to die prematurely
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.
Between 1956 and 2005 there were 100 deaths among the 1,064 musicians examined by researchers at the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University.
While the Brits are researching the obvious, Americans are busy designing new arterial stents.
You know, something that may actually save lives.