Musicians

Musicians as a profession have one of the highest deathrates of any profession out there. But due to the lack of statistic tracking, they never appear on any infographics like the following one for the year of 2009.

In the chart above, its written as Fishing,Logging,Pilots& Flight Engineers have the highest chance of dying on the job.

But looking at history, look back at all the stars from the 50's to the 80's. How many of them are still around today? Not many at all. Just a couple of notable names,that I can remember ,who died from activities linked to their professions.

James Dean - Died from car crash(icon from the 1950's)
Johnny Cash - Attacked by ostrich,(didn't die, just thought it was funny he got attacked by one)
Jimi Hendrix - Died from overdose
Elvis Presley - Died from overdose

In the middle of searching for more names and causes of deaths, I stumbled across this website.


www.av1611.org/rockdead


Average age upon death of Rock Star - 36.9 Years.
Average age upon death of American Citizen - 75.8 Years.

So here ends my rambling for this evening,Just some food for thought before the next celebrity dies.

American Pie

What follows is the explanation of what American pie means (in bullet list form). Could be right or could be wrong but it makes sense to me. It may shed some light on what some of the symbolic line means.

Enjoy!

Notes on symbols in American pie

King=Elvis

Queen= Little Richard

Jester= Bob Dillion

Civil rights - folk music

Cuban missile crisis -war and peace

Music delt with issues of the time

Mick Jagger- jumpin jack flash

Devil= rolling stones( Mick Jagger)

Youth culture changes into drug culture

Sweet perfume -weed

Lady who sang the blues, ....turned away - Janice Joplin ( who died of a drug od)

Father son holy ghost (buddy holly and people who died with him)

took the last train to the coast(death)

American pie chorus = classic middle America during 1950's