Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan review eye-popping trip
Book of the dayMark LaneganReviewThe singer-songwriter’s memoir is a harrowing but often hilarious chronicle of addiction and regret
The annals of rock are littered with used needles and the damage they have done. Few drug enthusiasts can have sunk so low, however, as singer Mark Lanegan, whose eye-popping memoir explores hell’s many sub-basements, and lived to produce good writing.
There is no way this man should be alive. But being 6ft 2ins and made of sturdy north-western US stock has meant the gravel-voiced vocalist, now solo, but perhaps best known for his crepuscular guest spots with Queens of the Stone Age and his excellent first band, the Screaming Trees, has outlived many of his fellow travellers.
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