It’s apparently a hard life, touring and performing every night, and it’s apparently difficult to avoid getting sucked into drug use of one form or another. It kills a lot of them, even decades after they wake up and get themselves straightened out. It takes a toll. Then, you have Keith Richards.
Neither MJ or Prince had been active in performing publicly prior to their death. They tended to do more spot shows. Prince certainly didn’t need the money. MJ needed the money because he was so totally self-focused that he went broke.
The reclusive nature of being them is the killer. It feeds all the things that can lead to your demise.
I see this type of thing with the elderly now. They can’t sleep, they can’t eat, they can’t poop, they can’t deal with money. Pretty soon, they are addicted to sleeping aids and laxatives and “nerve pills”.
“Then, you have Keith Richards.”
Who surprises me every day by just being able to get his two feet unto the floor when he gets up.