The boy from a smog-drenched city who sang through addiction and into our hearts

music.

It came from stability.

When he met Pam Baker in the late 1970s, something shifted. Their relationship, later formalized in marriage in 1987, brought structure and grounding to a life that had long lacked both. With her support, he began to step away from the chaos that had nearly consumed him.

Over the following decades, he continued recording continue reading …