01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song).
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song).
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
I've lent out my "Sweet Soul Music " book by Peter Guralnick, so I will do my best to recall the details from memory.
"The Dock of the Bay" was written by Otis Redding while he was recuperating from an operation on his larynx to remove polyps that had grown there. After having a gruelling two years of non-stop touring, and having had several surgeons refuse to take the risk of removing the growths, for fear that he would never be able to sing again, a New York doctor, who was a fan, did the operation with a valuable shotgun being the payment for the task. Otis was not even allowed to talk for several weeks, and not sing for months. It was in this period of not knowing if the operation would be a success, that he wrote a dozen or so new songs, The Dock of the Bay being the one he was most keen to see become his first number one hit. On the very first day after he got the okay from his doctor to sing again, he went into the studio and played this to his band and manager, they where not keen on the song, but he insisted, so they did a take of the song that morning, in the afternoon they did a just a few other quick takes of other songs.
The following day, Otis flew his plane off to do an interview, but on the way, he crashed, killing himself and several other passengers. The song was posthumously released, and as he predicted, became his first number one hit.
I hope I have remembered all the details correctly (must get my book back!)
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence. For details; see above.
"The Dock of the Bay" was written by Otis Redding while he was recuperating from an operation on his larynx to remove polyps that had grown there. After having a gruelling two years of non-stop touring, and having had several surgeons refuse to take the risk of removing the growths, for fear that he would never be able to sing again, a New York doctor, who was a fan, did the operation with a valuable shotgun being the payment for the task. Otis was not even allowed to talk for several weeks, and not sing for months. It was in this period of not knowing if the operation would be a success, that he wrote a dozen or so new songs, The Dock of the Bay being the one he was most keen to see become his first number one hit. On the very first day after he got the okay from his doctor to sing again, he went into the studio and played this to his band and manager, they where not keen on the song, but he insisted, so they did a take of the song that morning, in the afternoon they did a just a few other quick takes of other songs.
The following day, Otis flew his plane off to do an interview, but on the way, he crashed, killing himself and several other passengers. The song was posthumously released, and as he predicted, became his first number one hit.
I hope I have remembered all the details correctly (must get my book back!)
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence. For details; see above.
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01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company (details below).
song was banned because they refused to change a lyric for a performance on the BBC. Then later a song critical of the Falkland Island War, I Love a Man in Uniform was banned causing drop of record company support even though the were on of the hottest bands in the country at the time. The record company then turned their support to Duran Duran.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company (details below).
song was banned because they refused to change a lyric for a performance on the BBC. Then later a song critical of the Falkland Island War, I Love a Man in Uniform was banned causing drop of record company support even though the were on of the hottest bands in the country at the time. The record company then turned their support to Duran Duran.
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
Dock Of The Bay was co-written with Steve Cropper while Otis was recovering on a houseboat in San Francisco.
Oddly the more personal parts (to Otis) of the lyrics came from Steve.
Sadly DotB became the first posthumous No1 in the US single charts.
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
12 - Vincent - Don McLean - Van Gogh - Depression from people not understanding his art.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
12 - Vincent - Don McLean - Van Gogh - Depression from people not understanding his art.
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
12 - Vincent - Don McLean - Van Gogh - Depression from people not understanding his art.
13 - Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday - Heroin, alcohol, jail time, sexual abuse, used and taken advantage of by the men in her life, and probably her share of racism during that period as with many other of the greats of that era. You can see she is a bit high on heroin in this great performance from her late days in 1957. A few years later she was gone in 1959 sadly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThGnrorGW8
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
12 - Vincent - Don McLean - Van Gogh - Depression from people not understanding his art.
13 - Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday - Heroin, alcohol, jail time, sexual abuse, used and taken advantage of by the men in her life, and probably her share of racism during that period as with many other of the greats of that era. You can see she is a bit high on heroin in this great performance from her late days in 1957. A few years later she was gone in 1959 sadly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThGnrorGW8
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
12 - Vincent - Don McLean - Van Gogh - Depression from people not understanding his art.
13 - Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday - Heroin, alcohol, jail time, sexual abuse, used and taken advantage of by the men in her life, and probably her share of racism during that period as with many other of the greats of that era. You can see she is a bit high on heroin in this great performance from her late days in 1957. A few years later she was gone in 1959 sadly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThGnrorGW8
14 - Spastic Autisticus - Ian Dury - Polio at age 7 after which he was sent to a ' special school ' where he was bullied,and sexually abused.
Wrote the song in respose to ' national disabled day ' introduced in 1981 calling it patronizing
and insensitive created by naive and arrogant do- gooders.
The song was banned by the BBC who had no idea that Dury was disabled claiming it was offensive.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
12 - Vincent - Don McLean - Van Gogh - Depression from people not understanding his art.
13 - Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday - Heroin, alcohol, jail time, sexual abuse, used and taken advantage of by the men in her life, and probably her share of racism during that period as with many other of the greats of that era. You can see she is a bit high on heroin in this great performance from her late days in 1957. A few years later she was gone in 1959 sadly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThGnrorGW8
14 - Spastic Autisticus - Ian Dury - Polio at age 7 after which he was sent to a ' special school ' where he was bullied,and sexually abused.
Wrote the song in respose to ' national disabled day ' introduced in 1981 calling it patronizing
and insensitive created by naive and arrogant do- gooders.
The song was banned by the BBC who had no idea that Dury was disabled claiming it was offensive.
01 - Heroin - Roky Erickson - Mental illness including belief that Martians had taken over his body.
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
12 - Vincent - Don McLean - Van Gogh - Depression from people not understanding his art.
13 - Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday - Heroin, alcohol, jail time, sexual abuse, used and taken advantage of by the men in her life, and probably her share of racism during that period as with many other of the greats of that era. You can see she is a bit high on heroin in this great performance from her late days in 1957. A few years later she was gone in 1959 sadly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThGnrorGW8
14 - Spastic Autisticus - Ian Dury - Polio at age 7 after which he was sent to a ' special school ' where he was bullied,and sexually abused.
Wrote the song in respose to ' national disabled day ' introduced in 1981 calling it patronizing
and insensitive created by naive and arrogant do- gooders.
The song was banned by the BBC who had no idea that Dury was disabled claiming it was offensive.
15 - Stand & Deliver - Adam And The Ants ( Stuart Leslie Goddard - AKA Adam Ant - Anorexia, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, public Disorder Charges ( probably related to his mental illness )
02 - My Body Keeps Changing It's Mind - Karen Carpenter - Anorexia which ultimately led to her death.
03 - God Only Knows - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - suffered repeated nervous breakdowns after making Pet Sounds.
04 - Late Night - Syd Barrett - burned his brain badly from various substances and suffered mental illness. Died just a few years ago, a broken man. (This Mortal Coil has made a great cover of this song)
05 - Happy-Go-Lucky Local (aka "Night Train") - Oscar Peterson - He had arthritis in his hands ( He was a pianist, therefore, "he suffered for his art")
06 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - his last song, written during convalescence.
07 - At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four - Banned from BBC & later lost support from record company
08 - Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Alcoholic Parents, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Drug & Alcohol abuse as an adult leading eventually to his death.
09 - The Saga of Buford Pusser - Jimmy Buffett - Got the crap beat out of himself by a cop, including a partial scalping.
10 - H-Eyes - The Ruts - prophetic b-side of their 1st single. Vocalist Malcolm Owen eventually died of an overdose
11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) Epilepsy, Depression, Suicide at 23
12 - Vincent - Don McLean - Van Gogh - Depression from people not understanding his art.
13 - Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday - Heroin, alcohol, jail time, sexual abuse, used and taken advantage of by the men in her life, and probably her share of racism during that period as with many other of the greats of that era. You can see she is a bit high on heroin in this great performance from her late days in 1957. A few years later she was gone in 1959 sadly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThGnrorGW8
14 - Spastic Autisticus - Ian Dury - Polio at age 7 after which he was sent to a ' special school ' where he was bullied,and sexually abused.
Wrote the song in respose to ' national disabled day ' introduced in 1981 calling it patronizing
and insensitive created by naive and arrogant do- gooders.
The song was banned by the BBC who had no idea that Dury was disabled claiming it was offensive.
15 - Stand & Deliver - Adam And The Ants ( Stuart Leslie Goddard - AKA Adam Ant - Anorexia, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, public Disorder Charges ( probably related to his mental illness )
