Word: nick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start of the show, roadies-rechristened "wallies" for the occasion-start stacking 340 cardboard bricks until, at intermission, the wall stands completed. During the second half, a few strategic ruptures appear through which Waters and his fellow Pinkies-Keyboard Player Rick Wright, Drummer Nick Mason and Guitarist Dave Gilmour-can be glimpsed doing their stuff...
...notable exception happens to be the best song of the lot. "Stop Your Sobbing," written by Ray Davies of the Kinks some 15 years ago, is oddly the album's freshest, most vital cut--perhaps Nick Lowe's production helped. Released early last year as a single, it features Hynde's versatile voice at its alluring best, and the only upbeat lyrics on the record...
During all this speculation, Presley's personal physician, George Nichopoulos, 52-or "Dr. Nick," as the affable, white-haired Memphis practitioner was known in the Presley household-steadfastly maintained that any drug abuse by the singer was "accidental." But last fall the Tennessee board of medical examiners filed a 59-page complaint against Nichopoulos, charging him with indiscriminately prescribing uppers, downers, tranquilizers and narcotics for Presley and 19 other people, including Singer Jerry Lee Lewis. (The state pharmacy board filed its own charges against Memphis Druggist Irving Jack Kirsch, who had filled many of Presley's prescriptions.) According...
Last week, under the glare of TV lights, the board of medical examiners opened a hearing into its charges. Dr. Nick was among the first to testify. Recalling an association that began in 1967 when he treated the star for saddle sores, he painted a fascinating, depressing picture of life with the king: - Presley was probably addicted to the painkiller Demerol and barbiturates as well. Twice, in October 1973 and again in March 1975, he was hospitalized, and attempts were made to wean him off drugs, one time using methadone. But Presley was so distrustful of his doctors after learning...
Though Dr. Nick's testimony portrayed Presley as heavily dependent on drugs, there was still a question whether they killed him. The drugs found in Presley's body, some medical observers noted, were not at lethal levels and his longtime abuse of medication probably made Presley tolerant of high amounts. Still, several of the drugs, taken in conjunction, could have interacted with each other and produced a fatal synergistic effect. And there is no doubt that, whatever his other problems, there was no medical justification for the voracious way Presley took drugs. At week...