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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. More episodes in this series: Listen to 12 is Sublime Listen to The Curse of 13 Listen to The 33,000 Horsepower Gamechanger Listen to How 4 Makes and Breaks Rules 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.