
Big Star with Rob Sheffield
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The Isolation of Chris Bell
It's about sort of the Self-absorption of isolation. David Bell talks about how he comes back Home like four or five times to visit family because he was living in Italy and he says I saw a slow deterioration in Chris He had occasionally sent me demos which showed that he continued to grow musically and lyrically But on the personal side his sadness was a constant source of concern to me It culminated in a horrific scene during a trip home in the summer of 1974 After a night on the town I returned home and walked into my brother's room to find him pulling with his teeth A rubber tourniquet with a syringe in his handI froze not wanting to harm him and some
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