Put the Fender down – rock and roll is officially bad for your health. This week, a team of doctors from Liverpool John Moores University revealed that, from a group of 1,064 famous musicians, almost twice as many had met an untimely end as would be expected from an average group of the same age. We’re not sure whether your choice of instrument affects how dangerous music is as a hobby, but we’re assuming you’ll be more at risk of living fast and dying young if you’re an axe-wielding, crowd surfing mosher than if you’re a dab hand at the triangle.
Musicians who have become icons following their deaths at a young age of course include rock legends Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix, figures who live on in the memories of their millions of fans. And, so it's said, at the Seattle Museum of Mysteries, where their soulful spirits have found a suitable haunting place. Visitors with an interest in the macabre can take a tour of various burial places and haunted sites thanks to Washington State’s only paranormal science museum. Not, we think, for the faint-hearted…
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