I never spoke to him after he left Mount Olive, though I did go to a couple of his concerts. And, like everybody else, I read about him in the papers and magazines. There were plenty of stories.

That was when you began to hear a lot more about his drinking. And that was when his back flared up on him. He'd always had problems, but the way I heard it, he tripped and fell and after that he had to take morphine and other stuff just to get through the day.