Monday, Sep. 24, 1990
The George Orwell Doublespeak Explanation
By DAVID ELLIS/
BRENT MYDLAND
The Grateful Dead returned to the road last week without their keyboardist, who died in July of a cocaine and morphine overdose. But what really killed him? According to the group's lyricist in Rolling Stone, "Basically, he died of rock and roll and a terminal affliction of the heart."
With reporting by Sidney Urquhart