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Death: Elvis Has Just Left the Building

2012; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4614-5900-2_6

2191-5490

Ronnie J. Phillips,

Media Studies and Communication

The mantra of "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" and the high profile deaths of a number of rock stars leads to the question of whether, in fact, rock stars are more likely to die young. A group of researchers in the U.K. found that indeed between 2 and 25 years from their initial rise to fame, rock stars tend to experience two to three times the risk of mortality expected in a similar group of non-rock stars matched by sex, age, and ethnicity. They note that a disproportionate number of the deaths are drug- or alcohol-related [13]. Though not covered in the study, when you add suicides and accidents, especially in planes and helicopters, it appears as though being a rock star is a risky business.