It’s been hard to avoid tragic tales of troubled musicians lately. Two recent documentaries,
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (on HBO) and
Amy
(in theaters), chronicle the lives, and early demises, of Kurt Cobain
and Amy Winehouse, respectively, beloved singers whose struggle with
drugs, depression and the consequences of fame precipitated their deaths
at age 27. Another recent biopic,
Love & Mercy, takes us
inside the head of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, who only just survived
such swirling forces and more in his own life.
