a statue to a guy who died in the Bowery having collapsed in an alcoholic haze having squandered a fortune and his talent?


Stuff of folk hero worship in some quarters.

Let the songs live, tweak them maybe, but make them live.

but

re-write history so mankind (oooooh person-kind) forget reality and the dangers thereof. Why not. The truth is too painful to deal with.

What a nation needs is a monument to the truth. But then they interpret, how it suits best their evangelism. That's art for you, it's not what the artists say it is!