Groucho Marx once excellently say , " I do n’t require to go to any club that will accept me as a member . " Take these Son to heart , specially in the case of the 27 Club .
The 27 Club is the somewhat morbid name for a large group of renowned player who all died at the age of 27 . Sometimes call the Forever 27 Club , fan and conspiracy theorists believe the large number of stone ' n ' pealing deaths ( at least 50 , according to author Howard Sounes ) is n’t merely co-occurrence [ source : Lopez ] . They feel 27 is a unredeemed eld , the long time at which influential musicians are most at risk for death .
The possibility certainly seems plausible . Here ’s just a small cut of music stars who passed away at the age of 27 :
unhappily , the list goes on and on . But does this really intend old age 27 is beshrew for rock stars ? No , but it is dead on target that famed musicians tend to expire originally than the rest of us .
Professor Diana Kenny of the University of Sydney reported in a 2014 study that the 27 Club hypothesis is nothing but a myth . stone stars do n’t conk out more often than the rest of us at age 27 , but they do tend to expire untested .
Kenny traced player deaths from 1950 on and compared them to deaths in the all-inclusive United States universe and find the medium male musician go bad in his recent 50s , while the average American male break down around age 75 . She focused on males , as they comprise 90 pct of euphony industry end [ source : Taylor ] . chance are , famous musicians have a shorter life-time because of their entree to drug , hard animation and the aroused ego - medication that typically amount with the life of an creative person .
Why , then , is there so much focus on years 27 ? potential because the term " the 27 Club " is catchy and interesting to intend about . And because most of these deaths involved drug overdoses or unknown luck , a certain mystique emerged around them .
Howard Sounes , generator of a book of account on the 27 Club , points out to USA Today that many fans feel such a connection to their favorite musicians that they ask an account for their deaths . It ’s easier to accept that your idol were pre - destined to " link the night club " instead of facing the truth that they were simply victim of their own deathrate [ source : Lopez ] .
