Tag Archives: Rockers

Ready… Set… Rock!

In 1992 I was putting on the finishing touches to my college career that included a number of fabulous seats to a string of incredible concerts from U2 (twice) to Billy Joel. Back then the Stone Temple Pilots had just come on the scene and my boyfriend at the time was a huge fan. Who knew then that lead singer Scott Weiland, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz would go on to sell 35 million albums worldwide and score a slew of Grammys? (Besides my ex-boyfriend who claims he was always a “believer.”) I enjoyed the … Continue reading →

Breaking Research on Rock Stars

Okay, hold onto your seats for this one…a new study has come out saying that *gasp* rock stars are more likely than others to die a premature death. Yes, yes, I know many of you are shocked by this discovery. The study was conducted by researchers at the Centre for Public Health at John Moores University in Liverpool. The researchers studied more than 1,000 artists, mostly from the North America and the United Kingdom. They discovered that there were 100 deaths among the 1,064 musicians they studied between the years of 1956 and 2005. People such as Elvis, Jim Morrison, … Continue reading →