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Re: [Pen-l] Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and the perils of success

Louis Proyect wrote:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-elvis-presley-and-the-perils-of-fame/

Great article! I think it's quite common for working-class (or even
middle-class) musicians to fall apart after they are catapulted to
stardom. They lose all their friends, either literally or via their
conversion into toadies. They have success but it seems meaningless:
it doesn't buy happiness. They're always at the center of others'
attention and expected to regularly conquer new worlds. So they get
into drugs. Or fundamentalist religion (like Dylan).

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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