Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Rock Stars, Music Icons, Alcohol, and Drug Overdose


Rock Stars, Music Icons, Alcohol, and Drug Overdose
There is a proverb that rock and roll stars survive the sting and drive within the quick lane. Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, and Michael Hutchence of INXS did simply that.  They were music icons who lived on the sting.  Sad to say, their fame and fortune additionally led to their untimely deaths. what is a lot of alarming is these stars die some years once achieving fame. News of rock stars and alternative music icons dying young is alarming, as a result of their deaths are related to substance overdose.

A recent study conducted in Liverpool John Moores University showed that one,050 yank and European artists or so-called “icons” died prior average individuals. Of the one hundred stars that died from 1956 to 2005, majority of those yank “music icons” died at the age of forty two on average, whereas those from Europe died at thirty five years archaic. The reason? Unhealthy lifestyle, improper diet, drug addiction, and alcohol and substance abuse. additionally, a part of the dilemma lives with the strain and anxiety related to fame.