Evan Dando: The World's Forgotten Boy
Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, November 2006
MOST OF the world thinks that, by rights, Evan Dando shouldn't be alive. But like Iggy Pop (one of his mentors), he's a misunderstood boy – and much more than the sum of the drugs he's taken.
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