(www.neomundo.com.ar/_Fuente:_Agencia_CTyS) sex, drugs and rock and roll is an equation that many times we have heard to define the lives of many artists and personalities of the music since the mid-20th century onwards.
A life to the limit seems to be sine qua non to enter the hall of Fame of large international rock history, and many musicians have died very young people, victims of a high-risk job: the be a rock-star.
In this sense, a group of Australian researchers proposed scientifically investigate this apparent relationship between rock and death, and analyze if, indeed, to devote himself to music involves greater risk that manage a collective or be cashier in a bank.
The dangerous age
So, according to research published in a special edition of the British Medical Journal, experts concluded that English musicians aged between 20 and 40 years are between two and three times more chances of dying prematurely as the rest of their compatriots.
This fact came a team of specialists in statistics and public health, school of public health of the technological University of Queensland, Australia
The myth of the 27 CLUB
Scientists also wondered if the “myth of the 27 Club”, age in which passed to eternity great figures in the history of music as Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, among others had some hold.
To confirm if the myth rests on a scientific basis, the experts compared data and age of death of 1,046 British musicians, with the condition that, whether solo or in a band, they have been sometime in the first put some English musical ranking between 1956 to 2007.
The study found that 7% of performers had died at that age in legendary, but the figure was consistent with the rates of general mortality of the musicians; i.e. having 27 years does not increase the risk of death for the rockers.
Comparing the general mortality rate of the population of United Kingdom with the musicians, however, they found that, from the 20 and up to 40 years, this profession is a risk factor.
According to the data obtained, the Group had between two and three times more chances of dying prematurely than the general population.
In addition, the researchers obtained another conclusion: between the 1970s and the early 1980s there was a “peak” of deaths of musicians, figure that began to diminish in 1985.
According to the experts, this could be due to the number of musicians who died between the second and third decade of his life was reduced to improve the knowledge to treat heroin overdose.
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