Evan Dando: Baby I'm Back
Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 8 March 2003
FEW ROCK'N'ROLLERS have crashed from such a spectacular height as Evan Dando. Fewer still live to tell the tale. In 1992, he was primed to be the biggest rock star in the world, bigger even than his friend Kurt Cobain. As the singer in little-known Boston indie combo The Lemonheads, Dando had surprised himself by scoring a huge international hit with a pop-grunge version of Simon & Garfunkel's 'Mrs Robinson'. The band had recorded it in one take for a compilation and were upset to discover it have become their calling card.
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