Originally Posted by eggchen:
“Many rock and pop stars hit the skids and die young because they hammer the wild living, with copious amounts of drugs, booze, parties, lots of sexual partners etc
It goes with the territory.
No point trying to pretend it wasn't their lifestyle that eventually screwed many of them up, even to the point of many dying because of it.”
BIB yes, apparently it's statistically proven they have a shorter longevity than other careers.
Think GM would say he believed in recreational drug use, for the most, until it totally got his hooks in him. There's no doubt it shortened his career too BUT if given the choice of what he would have viewed as a dreary long life vs a briefer hedonistic one, maybe he'd still have chosen the latter. OTOH it's a real shame that he needed weed in order to write and that became a complete bind despite, he felt, it helping him to make better music.
He was a complicated man, that's why he's more interesting than the Daily Mails Z listers as mentioned by another poster on this page. ( They're best left in the DM or the many, many DS threads created for them. This slender distinction between the DM and DS does

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