sarah mcclachlan s ' in the arms of an angel ' about smashing pumpkins keybordist jonathan melvoin


" I wrote "Angel" after being on the road for almost two years straight and was both mentally and physically drained," McLachlan wrote. "I went to a cottage north of Montreal to relax and write and read an article in Rolling Stone about the Smashing Pumpkins keyboard player who had OD'ed in a hotel room."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/sarah-mclachlan-reveals-inspired-iconic-song-angel/story?id=24758400




Rolling Stone Article
By David Fricke

Sept 1996

' Billy Corgan remembers answering the phone at his Manhattan hotel, the Four Seasons, at about 5 a.m. The call was from Tim Lougee, a.k.a. Gooch, co-tour manager for the Smashing Pumpkins. Gooch was in drummer Jimmy Chamberlin's room at the Regency Hotel, on Park Avenue, with one of the band's security managers, Bill Sitkiwiecz. Gooch's message, as Corgan recalls it, was simple and devastating: "Jimmy's OD'd. Jonathon's dead. Cops are here." '



http://www.starla.org/articles/rs2.htm