How Rock'n'Roll went from cool to be addicted to cool to be sober

The 50th anniversaries of the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison straddle 2020 and 2021. In April, it’ll be 27 years since we lost Kurt Cobain - Variety reminds us of the tragic losses of artists due to substance abuse. However, Variety argues, it has in the meantime become cool to be sober, although a path to sobriety isn't that easy. Alice Cooper explained: “All my other addictions, like cocaine and alcohol, were killing me. I knew I had an addictive personality — my stage show is a very addictive thing to do — so I had to find positive addictions”; he found golf!