THE MESSAGE:
THE GOOD (SINGERS) DIE YOUNG.
Imagine a life where the pressure of being at the top of your game is constant; performing nightly for 3 or 4 nights, days at a recording studio, meeting with your manager and then hopping on a bus or plane for the next tour. Is it any wonder that many top performers have died from a drug overdose?
1. ELVIS PRESLEY,
He died on August 16, 1977 at age 42. Elvis suffered from glaucoma, high blood pressure, and liver damage. His body had been weakened from years of drug abuse.
He died on August 16, 1977 at age 42. Elvis suffered from glaucoma, high blood pressure, and liver damage. His body had been weakened from years of drug abuse.
2. JIM MORRISON,
The lead singer for the Doors, died on July 3, 1971 at age 27. He was found dead in his bathtub. No official autopsy was completed; however, he is suspected to have died from a drug overdose.
The lead singer for the Doors, died on July 3, 1971 at age 27. He was found dead in his bathtub. No official autopsy was completed; however, he is suspected to have died from a drug overdose.
3. FRANKIE LYMON,
Was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the 1960 rock and roll group The Teenagers. Lymon began working as a grocery boy. At the age of 12 in 1954, Lymon heard a local doo-wop group known as the Coupe De Villes at a school talent show. As his music and group progressed, the disc jockeys always called them "Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers". On February 27, 1968 he was found dead at the age of 25 from a heroin overdose.
4. SID VICIOUS
He was born John Simon Ritchie on 10 May 10, 1957. Sid Vicious was an English bassist and vocalist, and most known as a member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. During the Sex Pistols' ascendancy, Vicious met his girlfriend and manager and the pair entered a destructive codependent relationship based on drug use. Later after two arrests, He was moved to Rikers Island to undergo a drug rehabilitation program. On his release, he died in his sleep after overdosing on heroin on February 02, 1979.
THE BLURB:
STEVEN TYLER, THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY!
Steven Tyler (born Steven Victor Tallarico; March 26, 1948) is best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith.
He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'" due to his high screams and his wide vocal range. Tyler has spoken candidly in recent years about his history with drugs. In 2011, he revealed to Dateline that during Aerosmith's heyday in the 1970s and '80s, the band's tour rider included a small off-stage cubby where they could tend to their coke habit.
"I needed blow," he told Matt Lauer. "I needed that cocaine. I needed it." That need nearly ruined him, he added. "It took my children away, it took my marriages away. I was on my knees." Tyler got sober in the mid-'80s, but he later relapsed. In 2006, he became addicted to prescription medication while being treated for hepatitis C. That led him back into old habits, and in December 2009 he checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic.
Last year, he told Time Magazine that he took the job because he needed something risky in his life. "I'm one of those people that take dangerous things and jump in with both feet," he said. "I think I'm addicted to adrenaline."
Tyler was in and out of drug rehabilitation programs 8 times. While in rehab, he discovered that most of the women in these programs were battered, beaten and abused verbally and sexually.
When Steven Tyler co-wrote Aerosmith’s hit “Janie’s Got a Gun” almost 30 years ago, he already knew that he wanted to help young women who had been abused. The song’s theme centres around child abuse and incest and it reportedly took Tyler nine months to finish writing the lyrics.
Recently, Tyler participated in his scarf cutting opening of 'Janie's House' at the facility at Youth Villages' Inner Harbour campus in Douglasville, Georgia. He acknowledged the difficulty in truly understanding what the residents had to go through. “You can see in their faces and hear in their voices how broken they are,” he said. Referring to the shelter, Tyler says, “I’m hoping that they get some tools, some advice, some ways to work stuff out, some words of wisdom that they can then live by.”
The Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus is one of Georgia’s largest psychiatric residential treatment programs for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances.
The 1,200 acre woodland setting just outside of Atlanta offers a therapeutic environment that includes a lake, a sports field with a running track and playgrounds for recreational activities. Hiking trails, canoeing, and equine therapy enhance the treatment program as well.
'STEVEN HAS A DAUGHTER'.
This perhaps could have been another Aerosmith song.
Liv Rundgren Tyler (born Liv Rundgren; July 1, 1977) is an American actress and former model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and model Bebe Buell.
Aerosmith began a farewell tour in Europe in the spring of 2017; however, the tour had to be cancelled in the fall due to Steven Tyler's sudden medical issues. The exact cause of his issues has not been released, but Tyler claims it was not serious. He said, "I love you all and will be back with you soon."
Why do great performers and celebrities lead such problematic lives?
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| DANIEL DADDIO 'the pisshead' |
A man was arrested after peeing on family of 3 during Metallica concert in Glendale. The family included a man, his wife and their 10-year-old daughter. They told police they "felt warm liquid washing over their backs and legs" while they were seated at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us." Steven Tyler
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