Simple: He's in possession of The Scroll of Thoth.
Posted on 12/30/2016 7:28:48 PM PST by Rockitz
The passing of George Michael this week reminded many of the seemingly short life expectancy of musicians (and performers in general). In fact, as on study found, while blues, jazz, and country singers typically live as long as the average American; rock, techno, punk, metal, rap, and hip hop stars die significantly sooner.
“I hope I die before I get old,” The Who’s Roger Daltrey sang in “My Generation” in 1965. This didn’t happen for Daltrey, who is now a ripe 71, but it did to many other musicians.
Dianna Theadora Kenny, a professor of psychology and music at the University of Sydney, has conducted a statistical study of premature death among musicians.
As The Washington Post notes, she found that musicians from older genres – including blues, jazz, country and gospel – have similar lifespans to American people their own age. The life expectancy for R&B musicians is slightly lower, while the life expectancy for newer genres like rock, techno, punk, metal, rap and hip hop is significantly shorter.
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There are plenty of new bands. The record companies are broke because they failed to adapt to new technology in time. The radio stations won’t play anything that doesn’t fit their little tiny idea of what they think people should hear. So bands self release their records and play shows for gas money and struggle. Its a hard life unless you are like Taylor Swift who came to town with $100,000 of daddy’s money and bought a record contract and management.
In a word: drugs.
I’m sure he’d love that lol!
Thanks man. I spent a while listening to them early in the am and am very happy you turned me on to them.
I don't speak Mongolian either, but I understood them at least as well as I did
John Fogerty when he was looking for "a bathroom on the right."
{;^)~
So how does one explain Keith Richards??
Well at least we will always have Beethoven, Bach and Mozart.
Wild stuff! Thanks.
Yes! The bands we liked still draw a crowd for a concert but don’t sell “albums” well anymore.
They’re also getting a little up there in age!
I need to delve in and see what kind of rock is out there now.
I loved Triumph when I was young. Still listen sometimes :)
Thanks.
“When Rabin rushed over to Adrienne after a concert, she told Feinstein, his mother “rounded on me in public, shouting at me that I didn’t understand who Michael was, what his obligations were, what kind of public figure he was, and so on. I felt humiliated….Michael stood there, crimson, crestfallen and silent.”
“Adrienne closed the door on Rabin.”
“Eventually, Rabin developed psychological problems – for example, he became afraid of falling off the stage. He began taking powerful sedatives and other medications. He cancelled concerts; his performances turned sloppy. Invitations to play dried up. He entered Mount Sinai Hospital; he saw a psychiatrist. He tried to make a comeback, and succeeded for a while, but then he returned to his medications. In his apartment, groggy with sedatives while answering the telephone, he slipped, fractured his skull, and died.”
http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/revisiting-a-tragic-life/
Simple: He's in possession of The Scroll of Thoth.
Half right.
There is PAY RADIO (digital satellite subscription) that white audiences are supposed to go to.
Everything else on the terrestrial dial is hippity hop, pop-dance, or tejano on FM (or 70s-80s oldies 'rock' a set 200 song list, same 200 songs every day, every week, and the same with secretary pool music of the 70s-80s AND BEYOND, think Wind Beneath My Wings).
And as you travel to AM you will find sports talk (over half a dozen different stations in my city), political talk (4 stations in my city), religious talk, and everything else is either in spanish, hindi, vietnamese, chinese, korean, arabic etc etc.
There is still money in radio but it has moved on to "other demographics", white people are supposed to pay for radio these days just as they do with television.
There would be a resurgence in music on radio IF the playlists weren't so locked. But then, local television disappeared even before local radio and local newspapers. Nothing serves the market anymore and all of the ratings/circulation figures are down as a result.
Probably not here.
He was such a gorgeous thing when young -- I had such a crush on him. Adored Tommy and still play it from time to time. He's still a gorgeous man today.
So totally agree. I didn't tune in to him at the time he was alive because of the overt gayness, but over time, as Queen's tunes have become classics, I started watching the videos. One weekend I spent nearly all my free time watching everything on there, most especially Wembley. What an incredible voice and musical talent.
My grandmother on moms side just turned 99 on the 15th and she looks orders of magnitude better than him.
See posts 99 and 97.
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