alright, fair game... being a rock band is deadly. However, we now have the information that just listening to Country will kill you. So, there are your choices America.

C, don't forget Keith Richards as one who has outlived expectations by about 30 years. And in the '70s, who would have thought Bowie would make it this far in relatively good health?

And I thought the Spinal Tappers spontaneously compusted, but maybe they did it in the garden

FLIPPER has lost 3 due to heroin...

the Pretenders lost two also

Every single member of Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives is dead. Ditto King Olver's original band. What mysterious death curse haunts jazz?

Good point, Clubhouse -- a lot of those rockers died of the same things that get us all. The "rock lifestyle" didn't exactly claim their lives; the Grim Reaper did.

but even those who die of "natural causes" in their 40s, 50s and 60s lived lifestyles that very likely contributed to early deaths

Eric, Maybe, maybe not; Buddy Holly, Otis, the Bar-Kays -- hell that could have been anyone. Did leukemia have anything to do with the death of the last New York Doll? David Ruffin smoked too much. So did Mary Wells. So did my uncle -- so do I, come to think of it. When I think of death by rock and roll, I think of death by fame, death by excess: a drug overdose (or immediate complications thereoff -- drowning in your pool or your puke) or cirrhosis of the liver or a gunshot wound or suicide or getting offed by a fan.

Correction : what I meant to say was, did rock and roll have anything to do with the New York Dolls bassist getting leukemia --

There's lots of old rockers now that the genre's been around long enough to have some. Chuck Berry, Sleepy LaBeef, Jerry Lee, Little Richard, both Everly Brothers, and a bunch of other important roots guys are old and alive. See them do their thing while you can!!!

Willie and BB and Buddy, too!
While you still can!

And Bo

Well a lot of singers snuff it too...

There are only two members of the New York Dolls left.