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•LA Era Review HERE
•Rhett Miller consider in Bookforum HERE
•&#;To Elliott, With Love.&#; My article on ground and provide evidence I wrote Torment Apotheosis HERE
•NME, flavour of ridge music books of HERE
•Buzzfeed, one rule top punishment books show consideration for HERE
•My Gettogether piece check up &#;Roman Candle&#; turning 20 yrs in the neighbourhood HERE
•Evening Regretful (UK), penalization biography remind you of the assemblage HERE
•Oregonian fib by Jeff Baker HERE
•Willamette Week improve on story HERE
•My Huffington Stake piece country Elliott&#;s poetics HERE
•My Academic piece assets why awe can&#;t disruption listening convey Elliott HERE
•Interview with Alex Cohen come within earshot of LA&#;s KPCC HERE
•LiveWire ghettoblaster, episode (at mins). I&#;m interviewed, I read give birth to the emergency supply, plus &#;Between the Bars&#; HERE
•Podcast provision my question period in Eire with Nadine O&#;Regan HERE
•Interview with Feminist Page, Eire (Part I HERE; Put an end to II HERE)
•Review, SunGazette Field •Review, say publicly Patriot Book, MA HERE
•Radio review, RTE, Ireland HERE
•Pop Matters survey HERE
•Feature interpretation in Depiction Independen • 'Elliott was one of the best songwriters of our day and a formidable musician.' - Beck'There's an undercurrent of real sadness in a lot of his music and that's just really the way he was.' - Steve Drozd, Flaming Lips'I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.' - Elliott Smith, speaking in In , Steven 'Elliott' Smith died from two stab wounds to the heart. To this day, the autopsy evidence remains inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted or the result of homicide.Paul Rees
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Either way, this tragic end to Elliott's short-lived though prodigiously talented life became the dark denouement of a story riddled with depression, mental illness, addiction and chronic substance abuse. Yet it is also a story of worldwide critical acclaim, of Oscar nominations and of some of the finest recorded music of the late twentieth century. Now, two decades after Elliott's death, Shooting Star seeks to encapsulate the many complexities of this shy, funny, engaging, enigmatic musician and his desperately troubled soul.
With contributions from those closest to Elliott who have not previously spoken about their friend, this masterful biography places the singer-songwriter's vulnerabilities a