It never seemed odd or mystical, revelational for some musicians to die at 27. I had always called the age 27, "The Age of disillusionment." The age where your childhood and your adulthood begin to mingle and clash. My friend Stephanie Shaw once said when I was 29 turning 30, "Thirty is the best age." It
was a great age. Here are a couple sites I found today, one that rationalizes how an idea can be made popular with very little evidence behind it, once placed next to other "coincidental" ages of rock deaths. People just like the number 27. It's a 3 thing. But noone is going to talk about a musician dying at 3, 6, or 9. Here is also a picture of the newest 27 Club Amy Winehouse, whom I never heard of until she became part of this club that is about as illusional as my theory about the age of disillusionment. And here is a picture of Bob Welch, who now belongs to the Suicide Club and the 66 Club.
Psychology Today.
A list of other rock death ages. This is in response to John Szmanski & Peter Sebastian's post
The 27 Club which now has 27,000 hits. Good Work! Also in the comments for that post there was also a reference to
Saturn Returns, which is a more cosmic description of what I touch on briefly here.
It never seemed odd or mystical, revelational for some musicians to die at 27. I had always called the age 27, "The Age of disillusionment." The age where your childhood and your adulthood begin to mingle and clash. My friend Stephanie Shaw once said when I was 29 turning 30, "Thirty is the best age." It was a great age. Here are a couple sites I found today, one that rationalizes how an idea can be made popular with very little evidence behind it, once placed next to other "coincidental" ages of rock deaths. People just like the number 27. It's a 3 thing. But noone is going to talk about a musician dying at 3, 6, or 9. Here is also a picture of the newest 27 Club Amy Winehouse, whom I never heard of until she became part of this club that is about as illusional as my theory about the age of disillusionment. And here is a picture of Bob Welch, who now belongs to the Suicide Club and the 66 Club. Psychology Today. A list of other rock death ages. This is in response to John Szmanski & Peter Sebastian's post The 27 Club which now has 27,000 hits. Good Work! Also in the comments for that post there was also a reference to Saturn Returns, which is a more cosmic description of what I touch on briefly here.
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