You can't trust any source anymore. Presumably these facts are checked out. Even if they are only half-true...role models?

All of this reminds me of one of my guilty pleasures back on TS.
I would state that if the world never new Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin or Michael Jackson...musically there would be no sense of loss and the drug addled rock-stars who snuffed themselves out with excess and overdoses, would never have existed as a role model, for the casualties that we never even heard of.

When I would write that, this bevy of old hippies would become apoplectic. To say that about their rock gods was heresy.
Truthfully their reactions tickled me and I meant the statement.

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