Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

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We don't like to think about our favorite musicians as being mortal, because let's face it,

we believe what they do is extraordinary, and those things make us feel in ways we otherwise

wouldn't.

Rock stars are special, superhuman, because they can do what we can't, and they live a lifestyle

that we can only dream about.

Yet, they are just as human as you and I, and fallible to temptations, they're in danger

of accidents, and they're vulnerable to all the

failings that may plague the body and the brain. When one of our favorites die, it's like a little bit of us

goes with them. In most cases, we've never met these people. In fact, we might have never even

seen them in the flesh. But because what they do speaks to us

in only the way music can, it hurts when they're gone. And in a weird way, it's instructive to look

at how they died. These deaths can be cautionary tales that we as fans can learn from. You know,

hey, I'm not going to let that happen to me. Their deaths may provide retroactive insight into the music they made, where in their

hearts it came from. So we understand them better as both artists and humans by examining the way

they died.

When they're gone, we may appreciate their music even more.

You know, it's one of those cases of you don't know what you've got till it's gone, right?

This is another installment of The Last Moments of.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross. Hello again, I'm

Alan Cross, and I apologize in advance for the maudlin tone of this episode, but it's a subject

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