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Born Paul Beahm to a mother between husbands and a Swedish sailor father he never met, Darby Crash had suffered the loss of his stepfather and his elder brother to a heart attack and a drug overdose, respectively, by the time he was 11. Highly intelligent yet chronically self-destructive, and also an obsessive David Bowie fan, Crash attended an experimental school based on EST and Scientology techniques, which nevertheless spawned the same jocks, freaks, and geeks' cliques as any other educational establishment. His growing interest in drugs and music coincided with the mid-1970s onset of punk, in which he participated as a singer with his band the Germs; his good looks and charismatic personality rapidly gained him a coterie of male and female fans. Packed with sleaze and irresistible backstage gossip, LEXICON DEVIL's oral history of Darby Crash's short musical career is the chronicle of a generation flaming out in a whirlwind of amyl nitrate, LSD, and heroin. The self-destructive Crash's ambition was to become as big as Bowie; he died of a heroin overdose the day after what had been hailed as the Germs' finest show, in 1980.
| Size | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
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