The boy from a smog-drenched city who sang through addiction and into our hearts

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be terrified, shouting at me to slow down. I didn’t bat an eyelid,” he admitted.

“They put me in a cell with a bank robber..”

By the mid-1970s, things had reached a breaking point. Performances became unreliable, health deteriorated, and at times he was even too unwell to finish shows.

There were arrests, public incidents, and a growing sense that his continue reading …

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