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...story of Paul Lozano and Margaret Bean-Bayog is a remarkable one, so it remarkable literary event. Two books have just been published that both purport to tell the story of what happened between this and his distinguished psychiatrist. Both books are written by journalists associated with the Boston Globe--Eileen McNamara, who writes for the Globe's Sunday Magazine, and Gary Chafetz, a freelance investigative reporter who covered the story for the Globe when it first broke (Chafetz, as a co-author) although the preface indicates that his role was mainly one of consultant and adviser...
...books draw diametrically opposed conclusions, McNamara advocating Paul Lozano's family's story and Chafetz taking Bean-Bayog's side. When I heard that these two books had been (almost simultaneously) published, I very much looked forward to reading them -- how often does one have the opportunity to hear both sides of the story? Surely, we would finally know what really happened in this sordid case...
...should we take the metaphor so literally? While John Lydon committed aesthetic suicide, Frances Bean will never know her father. Perhaps we should recall Johnny Rotten's last words: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated...
...dead on the floor, a shotgun still pointed at his chin and, on a nearby counter, a suicide note penned in red ink, reportedly ending with the words "I love you, I love you," addressed, a source said, to Love and the couple's 19-month-old daughter Frances Bean...
...reformed a series of bands before Nirvana finally coalesced in 1986 as an uneasy alliance among Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic (a hometown friend) and eventually drummer Dave Grohl. Cobain married Love in 1992, when the band was first peaking on the charts, when she was already pregnant with Frances Bean, and when both parents had already developed heroin habits (Love claims to have kicked hers immediately after finding out she was pregnant). "It's a whirling dervish of emotion, all these extremes of fighting and loving each other at once," is how Cobain described the marriage last year, proudly showing...