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Description
Twenty-seven can be a pivotal and tumultuous age. It’s held up as the year of peak performance in many sports and it's also seen as a cursed age for pop and rock stars, exemplified by the so-called 27 Club. Artists like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, all died at 27. As part of our series, The Greatest Numbers of All Time, IDEAS producer Chris Wodskou makes the case for a number that may not stick out in your mind but is more significant than you think.
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Guests in this podcast:
David Awosoga is a PhD student in Statistics at University of Waterloo and sports performance data analyst.
Alan Cross is a music historian, broadcaster, and host of The Ongoing History of New Music podcast
Dianna Kenny is a professor emerita of psychology and music at University of Sydney and psychotherapist in private practice.
Michael Owen is a retired clinical psychologist and author of The 27 Club.
Maria Westerstahl is senior lecturer at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.