Why pop stars live fast and die young

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MELBOURNE : It's long been said that pop stars live fast and die young, but a new Australian study has added scholarly credibility to the adage. Popular musicians in the US die up to 25 years earlier than the general population, with suicide rates among the performers between two and seven times greater, a "disturbing" new study has found.

Professor Dianna Kenny, from The University of Sydney, conducted a study of 12,665 performing pop musicians from all popular genres who died between 1950 and June this year. Out of the musicians studied, 11,478 were male.

The results of the study were "disturbing", according to Kenny.

Across the seven decades studied, popular musicians' lifespans were up to 25 years shorter than the comparable US population. Accidental death rates were between five and 10 times greater. Suicide rates were between two and seven times greater; and homicide rates were up to eight times greater than the US population. "This is clear evidence that all is not well in pop music land," Kenny said.

"The pop music 'scene' fails to provide boundaries and to model and expect acceptable behaviour. It actually does the reverse — it valorizes outrageous behaviour and the acting out of aggressive, sexual and destructive impulses that most of us dare only live out in fantasy," Kenny wrote in an article published by 'The Conversation'.

The music industry needs to consider these findings to discover ways of recognizing and assisting young musicians in distress, according to Kenny.

For the study, data on age, circumstances and manner of death were accessed from over 200 sources. The researcher also went to rapper death websites, Dead Punk Stars and similar sites for all popular music genres.

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