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What's that line from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon?

Shorter of breath than one day closer to death?

Yeah.

Eventually, that day will come for all of us.

The longer the age of rock continues, the higher the attrition rate.

We're seeing a slow acceleration of musicians leaving this world, as old age, the results of decades of a not-so-healthy lifestyle, and other infirmities take them away. They're sometimes taken by accidents and occasionally crime. I think we first noticed the beginning of a slow-moving mass extinction in late

2015 when we lost Scott Weiland of Stone Temple pilots and Lemmy for Motorhead in less than a month.

Then came 2016. David Bowie, Prince, Glen Fry of the Eagles, a couple of members of Jefferson

Airplane on the same day, Keith Emerson of

Emerson Lincoln Palmer, George Michael, and so many more. It was probably then that it dawned on us

that our musical heroes were mortal. They were getting older. And looking back over my calendar

from that year, I did dozens and dozens of media interviews

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