This is the tenth anniversary of the death of George Harrison. Just thought I’d throw that in.
Lemme give you a partial list of musicians who didn’t live long enough to collect Social Security (ie. 65) Getting shot doesn’t count; sorry John Lennon.
27 Club
King Floyd (61)
George Harrison (58)
Eazy E (31)
Freddie King (42)
Betty Everett (63)
Rick James (56)
Conway Twitty (58)
Freddie Mercury (45)
Maurice Gibb (53)
Keith Moon (32)
Frank Zappa (52)
Barry White (58)
Elvis (42)
Roy Orbison (52)
So as you can see, musicians do have shorter-than-average lifespans.