Many have heard of the infamous "27 Club" -- a list of music icons like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, all of whom passed away too young at age 27.
Now, new research backs up the notion that fame itself can be a killer.
The study found famous singers tend to die an average four years earlier than their non-famous peers.
"An elevated risk emerges specifically after achieving fame, which highlights fame as a potential temporal turning point for health risks including mortality," wrote a team of researchers led by Johanna Hepp of University Witten Herdecke, in Germany.
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