Blind Melon: Nico (Capitol/All formats)
Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 1 February 1997
IT'S EVIL to speak ill of the dead... Therefore, any suggestions that late Blind Melon vocalist Shannon Hoon got cheated by Lucifer when he went down the crossroads to make a Faustian pact are in the worst possible taste. Worse still, anyone who suggests the tormented fellow — who died from an accidental cocaine overdose in 1995 — lucked in on the big time by selling a watered-down version of the blues should be strung up.
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