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| | RollingStone.com: Silverchair : Silverchair See Past Tomorrow : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Last year, during mixing sessions for the group's fourth album, Diorama, Johns was diagnosed with reactive arthritis, a rare and crippling illness which caused his body to seize up when exposed to infection. |
 | | And while Diorama -- a high-minded collection of progressive-pop songwriting wrapped in earthquake rock and extravagant orchestrations, including three arrangements by Van Dyke Parks -- became Silverchair's crowning triumph in Australia (best-ever sales, four trophies at the Aussie version of the Grammys), the album stiffed in America. |
 | | Johns, 23, looking like a cross between a riverboat dandy and a frontier missionary in a dusty-brown three-piece suit and cravat, with a ring of dark beard offsetting his blond hair, did not act like a wronged or ravaged man at the Bowery. |
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