DEAD ROCKSTARS
BLUNT GRAFFIX STAGES
AN INTERNATIONAL MENAGERIE
OF MUSIC’S LATE GREATS
BY DANTE ZUÑIGA-WEST
eing a rock star isn’t about playing rock music. It’s about
the unabashed charisma that an exceptional performer
guts out into the world and how that magnetism affects
listeners and fans over the course of time. An authentic
rock star can win our love from beyond the grave.
That said, and given that rock stars are often fringe
personalities who find themselves prematurely on the
other side of mortality, there sure are a lot of dead ones.
And there is perhaps nothing more romantic in our
culture of arts and entertainment than the dead-rock-
star archetype.
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“SID AND NANCY, THE GAUNTLET” BY BLUNT GRAFFIX
10 JANUARY 26, 2012
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