Rock Bottom: Dark Moments In Music Babylon (55 page)

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TAD (band)
Tanx
(T-Rex album)
Tate, Sharon, murder of
Taylor, Mick
Taylor, Roger
Taylor, Zola
Ted Ed Fred (band)
Teenage Highway QC
Terrapin
(Syd Barret Appreciation Society)
Terrell, Tammi
Terry Webb and the Spiders
Texas Flood
(Double Trouble album)
Thau, Marty
Thee Experience (Hollywood club)
Their Satanic Majesties Request
(Rolling Stones album)
13 (Doors album)
Thomas, Carla
Thomkins, Pat
Thompson, Dave
Thorogood, Frank

murder confession

Thunders, Dino (son)
Thunders, Johnny (John Anthony Genzale)

albums
career
death of
drug use
as an influence
influences on
and the press
sex life and affairs
See also
Gang War; Heartbreakers; New York Dolls

Thunders, Julie (wife)
Thunders, Vito (son)
Tickner, Eddie
Time
magazine
Tiompkin, Dmitri
Together
(Gaye/Wells album)
Tommy
(Townshend rock opera/album)
Took, Steve “Peregrine,”
Tork, Peter
Torrence, Dean
Towles, Reverend
Townshend, Pete. See also
Tommy
Track Records
Tracy (Cobain’s girlfriend)
Traffic
Trouble Traveler
(Thunders album)
Trouser Press Rock Predictions
T-Rex. See
also
Bolan, Marc; Took, Steve “Peregrine”; Tyrannosaurus Rex
Twink
Two Sides of the Moon
(Keith Moon album)
200
Hundred Motels
(Zappa video)
Tyler, Steve
Tyrannosaurus Rex.
See also
Bolan, Marc; Took, Steve “Peregrine;” T-Rex

UFO Club (London)
Unholy Death
(N.M.E. album)
Unicorn
(Tyrannosaurus Rex album)
Use Your Illusion I
(Guns N’ Roses album)
Use Your Illusion II
(Guns N’ Roses album)

Valens, Ritchie, death of
Van Doren, Mamie
Van Zant, Ronnie
Vanguards
Vanity Fair
Varda, Agnes
Vaseline (band)
Vaughan, Jim (father)
Vaughan, Jimmy (brother)
Vaughan, Lenny Bailey (Stevie Ray’s wife)
Vaughan, Martha
Vaughan, Stevie Ray

albums
bands and groups
career
childhood
death and memorial
drug and alcohol use
drug recovery
influences on
and the press
sex life and affairs
See also
Bethel, Lindi; Double Trouble; Lapidus, Janna

Venable, Felix
Verve Records
Vicious, Sid

career
childhood
drug use
drug overdose and death
See also
Beverley, Anne; Sex Pistols; Spungen, Nancy

Vig, Butch
Village Voice
newspaper
Vincent, Gene
Virgin Records
Vis, Eugenie
Visconti, Tony
Vogue club (Seattle)
Vogue
magazine

Waiting for the Sun
(Doors album)
Walker Brothers (group)
Walter–Lax, Annette
Walters, Ricky (Slick Rick)
Warlock of Love
(Bolan book of poetry)
Warner Bros. (label)
Warren, Allan
Washington Post
Waters, Muddy
Waters, Roger
Watkinson, Mike
Watts, Charlie
Way of Life, A (band)
Wein, Chuck
Welch, Chris
Wellands, Scott
Wells, Mary
Werksman, Mark
Weston, Kim
Wexler, Jerry
What’s Going On
(Gaye album)
Whiskey-a-Go-Go (Los Angeles club)
White, Clarence
Whitney Jane
Who

drug use
instrument-bashing
internal disputes
Smothers Brothers’ TV show

Who’s Next
(Who album)
Wilde, Brandon de
William Morris Agency
Williams, Hank
Williams, Paul
Wilson, Audree (mother)
Wilson, Barbara Charren (Dennis’s 2nd wife)
Wilson, Brian (brother)

and the Beach Boys’ catalog
career and success
drug use

Wilson, Carl (brother)
Wilson, Carl (Dennis and Barbara’s son)
Wilson, Carol (Dennis’s 1st wife)
Wilson, Dennis

career and success
childhood
death of
drug use, rehab and detox
the
Harmony
(ship)
and the Manson family
sex life and affairs
spousal abuse
therapy
See also
Beach Boys; McVie, Christine

Wilson, Devon (Hendrix girlfriend)
Wilson, Gage (Dennis and Shawn’s son)
Wilson, Jackie (performer)
Wilson, Karen Lamm (Dennis’s 3rd & 4th wife)
Wilson, Marilyn (Brian’s wife)
Wilson, Michael (Dennis and Barbara’s son)
Wilson, Murry (father)

and the Beach Boys’ catalog
and child abuse

Wilson, Scott (Dennis’s adopted son)
Wilson, Shawn (Dennis’s 5th wife)
Windowframe (band)
Winter Dance Party Tour (1959)
Winwood, Steve
Wohlin, Anna
Woldermarian, Philip
Wolf, Howlin’
Womack, Bobby
Womack Brothers
Wonder, Stevie
Wood, Andrew
Woodstock festival
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
(Brian Wilson book)
Wright, Richard
Wyman, Bill

Young, Neil
Young Marble Giants (band)
Youngblood, Lonnie

Zappa, Frank

The Killer backstage at the Palomino Club, shortly before John Belushi’s death. (Jasper Dailey)

The Red Hot Chill Peppers couldn’t keep Hillel Slovak alive. Another heroin OD. (Alison S.Braun)

Mother Love Bone’s supertalented Andrew Wood OD’d on heroin. (Charles Peterson)

N.M.E.’s prophetic album title—before leader Kurt Streubling committed unholy matricide.

Tupac Shakur showing his respect for the press. (AP/Wide World Photos)

Two members of Badfinger, Peter Ham (top left) and Tommy Evans (bottom right), hanged themselves eight years apart. (Michael Ochs Archives,Venice, Calif.)

In January 1989 Axl Rose was arrested for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. According to the police report, he asked the arresting officer, “Do you know who we are? I’m a millionaire. I can have your stupid ass!” (AP/Wide World Photos)