Liam Payne (from One Direction) es morte after fall from balcony

Paul said
I can’t agree with this enough - I think that stardom, especially super-stardom is not for everyone and I imagine that it takes a lot of self-discipline, talent, help, and perseverance to maintain a long and successful career as an entertainer. I marvel at the ones who have been doing it for 20, 30, 40 or more years - that’s amazing to me.

You forgot to mention a decent share of luck is involved for any young artist-whatever their background or function in their first incarnation of fame-to make it big.

How many great obscure albums and songs have we all heard going back to the late 60's that strike as being so good we wonder why they werent hits or the bands/artists didnt become famous during their primes? Graham Parsons is one very good example. Badfinger, post-Beatles/Apple Records dissolution were like helpless sheep lost in the wilderness surrounded by hungry, ruthless tyrannical wolves. One member of the band committed suicide at his home in Wales and point-blank blamed his crooked manager as the reason for his financial hardship, nervous breakdown, and eventual suicide.

Back in the 1960's and 70's, even most of the successful bands and artists in UK and US got routinely screwed out of royalty percentage payments and club/arena dates because guess who controlled most of the clubs, and some of the arenas back then, especially in the UK? Organized crime. Seriously. Ozzy's late father-in-law, Don Alden, was a notorious gangster, aligned and associated with the Gambino crime family, he once dangled Robert Stigwood out of a high-rise window when he was told he tried to sign the Small Faces from his Jet label behind his back. Pink Floyd and some of their original management once saw the Kray Brothers beat the living sheet out of a club manager in a back alley who didnt pay them owed money. PF's second manager, Steve O'Rourke, IIRC, worked as kind of a "heavy" or associate for some mid-late 60's London underworld type before becoming the band's manager.

It's been speculated or suggested over the years that Led Zeppelin's ruthless, legendary manager, Peter Grant, may have had mob ties in the UK or USA.