![]() He does recount Kerrang!’s own shameful moment, when a staffer who had been harassing colleagues was promoted after he had been reported. Winwood also doesn’t delve too deeply into sexism, writing that “the objectification of women under the male gaze of rock’n’roll is a different book from this one”. If you’re thinking that’s likely largely down to no support during the pandemic, well, a 2018 report from the Canadian East Coast Music Association found that 20 per cent of musicians had contemplated suicide in the month they were consulted, and a 2016 survey by the New Zealand Music Foundation found six out of 10 artists had thought about it. A recent Australian survey commissioned by the music industry charity Support Act and conducted by the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology found that suicide attempts in live performers rose in the past two years. That’s by no means a nightmare trend of the ’90s. His bandmate, Danny McCormack, had some of his leg amputated after an injection of heroin caused massive damage.Īnother poignant voice is that of Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, who tells Winwood he suffered from survivor’s guilt, having lost so many friends in bands to suicide. Now that the singer is in his late 50s, he’s had his fair share of being helped off stage, and of worrying posts on social media. The Wildhearts once smashed up the Kerrang! office with baseball bats after a bad review, but that didn’t stop the magazine covering them. Ginger, the frontman of the Wildhearts, tells him, “I used to look at bands and wonder what drugs they took”. That’s the lens through which Winwood tells his own story, but he also takes the pulse of the industry in general, catching up with old interviewees specifically to talk about mental health and addiction. While Bodies is largely memoir, the publisher has filed the book under “health”. ![]() Even his coke dealer wound up barring him: “Sorry, mate, shop’s closed.”īodies: Life and Death in Music by Ian Winwood. ![]() At one point, the features editor banged on his front door, chasing a missing cover story, and found Winwood delirious, naked from the waist down, with cut feet. “I’ve taken so much medication that it’s likely I’ll be buried in a coffin with a childproof lid,” he quips. After his father died in traumatic circumstances, he was in and out of psych wards. Winwood’s own addiction was also able to hide in plain sight. The tortured artist, he admits, is forever celebrated: “Scenting blood, I have written reams of articles that examine in precise detail the degradation of a hundred lives …” In Vegas, to cover Green Day, he was robbed by a sex worker he recruited to buy cocaine. In Ireland, he dabbed speed with Primal Scream. When Winwood joined Kerrang! in 2000, he took full advantage of the permissive culture, using drugs to power through overseas trips and overnight deadlines. ![]() Duff McKagan suffered from survivor’s guilt, having lost so many friends in bands to suicide. ![]()
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