in the summer of 1994, the dave gohan diet went something like this. after regaining consciousness at some in the afternoon in a hotel room in america, he would start the day with two glasses of vodka. his throat so ravaged he couldn't speak, he would call jerry, his minder, and communicate by tapping on the phone in code. then he would get into his limo to the airport, stopping en route to to grab a mcdonalds, his sole meal of the day. on the plane it was time for a couple of valium and a blackout.
when he arrived at the venue, the tour doctors gave him steroid for his throat and painkillers for everything else.
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afterward though, he would retreat to his hotel room, never once talking to his bandmates, and spendd the rest of the night injecting heroine alone
by the end of depeche mode's 14month 158date songs of faith and devotion tour, dave gahan weighed just 100pounds...
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unbelievably the next two years were worse still, a gruesome object lesson in why heroine is a bad thing.