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We all react differently when we hear that a celebrity has died.

If it's someone whose work has managed to touch us in a particular way, the loss can really,

really hurt.

Our idols aren't supposed to be life-sized. They're supposed to be

bigger than that, maybe not immortal, but somehow not subject to the day-to-day things that we have to

deal with. It really, really bothered me when Joey Ramon died. It hurt when Kurt Cobain killed himself,

and when Amy Winehouse OD'd, it affected me even though I wasn't

what you'd call a big fan. A lot of people were similarly affected by the death of Scott Weiland.

If you grew up in the 1990s, his was one of the great voices of that era. And even though you knew about

all this problems with the drugs and the alcohol and the mental health

issues and all the rest of it, you didn't want to believe that things might end up going very, very bad for him.

But deep down, you kind of knew it, right?

So what happened with him?

And I'm not just talking about his final days.

I mean, what happened to him over the years

that put him on this path towards dying in the back of a tour of us? As I said, when we started

this investigation, this is going to take a while. So, this is Scott Weiland, part two.

This is the ongoing history of new music, the podcast edition with Alan Cross.

And I'm feeling.

And she feels it. Where you go on tomorrow?

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