RIP: An Interview with Shannon Hoon
Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
SHANNON HOON, Blind Melon vocalist, died on a tour bus on October 21st in a hotel parking lot in New Orleans. To complete the rock n roll legend, his corpse was discovered by Axl of Guns NRoses — childhood friend, travelling companion, equally hard-living rock n roller and every bit as cynical about the crazy world in which they suddenly found themselves millionaires.
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