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Pete On Heroin
- Subject: Pete On Heroin
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 10:34:23 -0400
Here's an excerpt from a Jim Sullivan article on the growing use of =
heroin among rock and movie stars in the Boston Globe:
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Pete Townshend of the Who, sipping tea in a New York hotel roo=
m
in 1985, drew this metaphor about his drug use, the past and the
future: "I've been living in a garbage can all my life, so I
remain living in a garbage can. I know a lot of it is going to rub
off on me and touch me, but it just isn't going in my mouth
anymore."=B7
Townshend's abyss? End of 1981. "I reduced myself to a
gibbering heap of rubble and then woke up one night in some venue
with a couple of bottles of brandy, (having) injected myself with
whatever was available. I was literally just about breathing,
covered in blood and warts and slime and phlegm and vomit and
still I was surrounded by people who wanted to get close to
me."=B7