I don’t love that you jumped to listing a bunch of terrible things you projected onto him. Famous dude like that probably did, but listing making out with an underage groupie as if it were just a cheeky thing is kind of awful.
I looked it up and apparently the photo is backstage at the International Hotel in 1969.
In 1973 he was apparently hospitalized for an addiction to pethidine (I had to look it up- Demerol) and when he died, they found several drugs in his system, so my guess is drugs.
Pedophilia has a longstanding history in the music industry. Priscilla was 14 when she met Elvis, Lori Mattix admitted to sleeping with rockstars as early as 14, Sable Starr admitted to doing so when she was 12, both were part of an infamous group dubbed the “baby groupies,” it was so prevalent that it disgusted Danny Elfman into writing “Little Girls” about the record execs he had witnessed participating in pedophilia. There’s at least a dozen examples I could pull from recent times just off the top of my head, but they’re all more niche and less likely to catch people’s eyes.
I don’t love that you jumped to listing a bunch of terrible things you projected onto him. Famous dude like that probably did, but listing making out with an underage groupie as if it were just a cheeky thing is kind of awful.
I looked it up and apparently the photo is backstage at the International Hotel in 1969.
In 1973 he was apparently hospitalized for an addiction to pethidine (I had to look it up- Demerol) and when he died, they found several drugs in his system, so my guess is drugs.
Pedophilia has a longstanding history in the music industry. Priscilla was 14 when she met Elvis, Lori Mattix admitted to sleeping with rockstars as early as 14, Sable Starr admitted to doing so when she was 12, both were part of an infamous group dubbed the “baby groupies,” it was so prevalent that it disgusted Danny Elfman into writing “Little Girls” about the record execs he had witnessed participating in pedophilia. There’s at least a dozen examples I could pull from recent times just off the top of my head, but they’re all more niche and less likely to catch people’s eyes.