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