Well put Rick. Booze, drugs, and the times certainly enter into the story. We will never know what really transpired, but it amazes me that there are some people that point to this incident as the turning point in Phil's life - as if that was the incident that would make him take his own life 11 years later. It is more complex then that.

And why do people knock journalists? What is so bad about calling him a journalist? He looked at himself as a troubadour, and if your look up that definition you will see that troubadours were the journalists of their day.