Re: Livers 'o' rock start

["Ian M. Derby" <csc2imd@cabell.vcu.edu>]

> 
> As Elton said recently in an interview in Details: "Nobody would want my liver".  And others would include:  David Crosby (transplant-lived), Mick Ronson 
> (liver cancer), Nicky Hopkins (I think - hey remember him? - he did all
> the early Who piano stuff - a true genius of the highest degree).  
> 

As I told Kevin Winn in private E-mail, I think the Dead's "Pigpen" takes the
cake for serious liver damage.  If you look at photos of him during
the 60's, he was as fat as they came.  By around '72, this guy was
skinny as a rail and sickly.  He died the same year I believe.