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Elliott Smith: The Lost Boy

Keith Cameron, Q, January 2011

He was the modern-day Nick Drake: a brilliant, troubled troubadour whose life was cut tragically short in mysterious circumstances, leaving a small but influential legacy. This is the story of the life and death of Elliott Smith by the people who knew him best.

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