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

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feel almost apocalyptic. Streets were lined with darkened stone buildings, stained black by decades of soot drifting down from factory chimneys.

His only real ambition

Our star never set out to be a great musician. His only real ambition was to escape his hometown. He left school at 16, his headmaster’s parting words a blunt, “Hard luck.” From there,continue reading …

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