GUEST me too, I really don't think so. He had a scintillating talent; he just couldn't deal with the brutality of the commercial music world. And given what he said in this Guardian interview in 2008, why would you be surprised?

"I was the only white boy among 80 pupils at school, and I spoke no Malaysian. Then they put me in a Catholic boarding school full of homosexual priests who were always trying to get into my pants because I was blond and looked like an angel."

The effect of child sexual abuse, which utterly destroys the personality and leaves the victim without sexual or personal self-confidence, would not make for the kind of brash ruggedness needed to go through the destructive life of rock touring.