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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts features Why do depressed, drug-addled loners make such irresistible rock stars? |
 | | And it was codified by David Bowie's 1972 concept album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, which was partly based on the earliest LSD casualty, minor English rock'n'roller Vince Taylor. |
 | | Several magazines have published glowing reviews of two new albums by Conor "Bright Eyes" Oberst, which, like all his work, come studded with references to depression and psychiatric medicine, and of British rapper Roots Manuva's Awfully Deep, which pleads with his management not to "send me to the farm that's funny". |
 | | It was sparked in the late 1960s, when a string of musicians emerged whose overindulgence in LSD led to varying degrees of mental collapse: Pink Floyd's Barrett, Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green, Brian Wilson, the late Skip Spence of Moby Grape. |
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