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Elliott Smith: Bottle Up And Explode

Dorian Lynskey, The Word, January 2004

Elliott Smith never managed to get past Step One of any 12-step recovery programme, yet he made quixotic music that lifted the lonely and the dispossessed. What lay behind the self-loathing that took his life at the age of 34?

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