Checking In - This Ain't no Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995 - page 23

But there was a dark side, a little matter that kept these old Chelsea Beats so beat: they
were—everyoneofthem—junkies.Theyusedeveryday,allday,andtheypulledMugianis
into their desperate habit. He too became a junkie. Down the road, because of heroin, he
lostagirlfriendandlaterawife,nottomentionhiseleven-pieceband.Hedamnednearlost
his life.