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RE: Nirvana & Society
> >Somehow dying young in a blaze of glory lends that mythic quality, and
>sticking around to deal with things gets you forgotten. Why is that,
>please? Seems like sticking around shows a lot more guts.
>
>There's an Elvis Costello line I've always deliberately misheard as "the
>romance of an early death." Rock music is hardly alone in this.
I have another question about this. Musicians who die young are always
preserved in the public conciousness as young and beautiful, while
performers who continue after they become very old and/or ill seem to
tarnish their images. I can think of a lot of examples of this, including
Freddie Mercury, Rock Hudson, Rudolph Nureyev, Johnny Cash, and (maybe) Paul
Simon.
Cash recently made the statement that he plans to continue as a musician
despite his illness. Is he setting a good example of courage, or should he
have retired from the public eye as soon as he got sick in order to preserve
his legacy?
keets
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