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Only the Good Die Young

Musicians who make it big twice as likely to bow out early

By Colleen Barry,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 4, 2007 9:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – The cliché "live fast, die young" now has backing from science. More than 1,000 American and European musicians active from 1956 through 1999 came under British researchers' scrutiny, and the stats are grim: The performers were twice as likely as civilians to die...   Read full story »

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