Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
We have anecdotal evidence that performers of all kinds, but perhaps especially musicians, tend to struggle with their mental health. Their lives too often end in tragedy, and below are 17 heartbreaking facts that seem to buoy the perception that their destined to have it rough.
Too many musicians and singers have died at the not-so-ripe age of 27 – Amy Winehouse, recently, but between 1969 and 1971 Brian Jones (The Rolling Stones), Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27. Kurt Cobain also joined in 1994.
#16. So many plane crashes…
Otis Redding died in a crash on December 10, 1967, and he is not the only musician who went out that way. But we’ll get there…
#15. Here one day, gone the next.
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