Kurt's Gone. So What?
Tom Cox, Guardian Unlimited, 5 April 1999
ROCK KILLS. The list of victims is too long and depressing to print here. We still raise an eyebrow when another tortured Narcissus bites the dust, but the impact has been dwindling ever since the cataclysmic nine months in the early seventies when Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison all made the ultimate career move.
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