Fact #84112
When:
Short story:
Having just been sacked from Neil
Young's band Crazy
Horse, songwriter, singer and guitarist Danny Whitten dies
of a combination of Valium, which he was taking for severe
arthritis, and alcohol, which he was using to try to get over his
heroin addiction. Horrified, Neil Young is inspired to write
The
Needle And The Damage Done, about Whitten's addiction and
death.
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