[dp0622]

how many creative artists have succumbed to something or other through the centuries?

Poe. Van Gogh? or was that just madness?

I don’t know country music but it dates earlier than rock n roll. I wonder if any were heavy drinkers.

The rockers seem by far though to be the worst.

[SkyDancer]

(Revised)

Imagine that. How many young rock stars have died over the past several yearsfrom drugs/alcohol mixes?

[Paladin2]

Hey, U gotta a problem with sex, drugs and R&R? ;-)

[2CAVTrooper]

And yet Keith Richards of the Rolling Bones is somehow still alive.

And if they ever cremate him, it would make Nagasaki look like an M-80 going off.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Quote: I don’t know country music but it dates earlier than rock n roll. I wonder if any were heavy drinkers.

Hank Williams... an alcoholic who also took morphine to ease the pain of an old back injury. He was fired from the Grand Ole Opry and missed a number of shows both there, and while touring. When he died of a heart attack in the back seat of his Cadillac, he had alcohol, chloral hydrate and morphine in his system. The autopsy also showed that he had also been severely beaten and kicked in the groin.

Hank Williams was a Christian but could not get the 'monkey off his back'. That monkey finally killed him. You may know of his son, Bocephus, from the old Monday Night Football theme "All My Rowdy Friends are Here on Monday Night"