And then realize everything he ever wrote happened before Nov. 1974. Today would have been his 65th birthday, but he killed himself with sleeping pills on November 25th, 1974. His mother testified that he didn't want to be a star, but he felt that he had something to say to the people of his own generation, and he didn't feel that he did that. His sister has testified that he once said to their mother "If only I could feel that my music had ever done anything to help one single person, it would have made it worth it."
Sadly like many greats, he was a person out of place in his time...little did he know his songs would be accepted almost 40 years later.
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