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Sparklehorse

Mixing his rural roots with a deep melancholy, Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse, battled drug addiction, depression and solitude on his way to becoming a revered singer-songwriter. The first of his family not to become a coal miner, he came to prominence in the UK in the mid-1990s when Radiohead heard his self-recorded debut Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995) and took him with them on tour across Europe. He nearly died in London from a mix of drink and drugs and his personal trauma featured heavily on second album Good Morning Spider (1998), with the song St Mary dedicated to...