Brighton TID
New member
Eels frontman Mark ‘E’ Everett must have the saddest life story in rock:
1. His father Hugh was a mathematician and quantum theorist, notable for formulating the Parallel Universes Theory in 1957. At the time, his theory was dismissed and he worked on military and industrial mathematics. Hugh was a distant father and an alcoholic. He died of a heart attack on July 19, 1982 with E discovering his body at home.
2. His sister, Elizabeth, long troubled by schizophrenia, committed suicide in 1996.
3. In 1998, his mother died of lung cancer.
4. His cousin, Jennifer Lewis was a flight attendant on the plane that struck The Pentagon during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Following the death of his mother, Eels released their album ‘Electro-Shock Blues’. A lot of the music is about death and funerals but don’t be put off. It is morbid but also brililant (one of my top 5 albums of all time). All of his other work is brilliant aswell –check out Daisys of the Galaxy and Blinking Lights.
Fave Eels song: Old Shit/New Shit
1. His father Hugh was a mathematician and quantum theorist, notable for formulating the Parallel Universes Theory in 1957. At the time, his theory was dismissed and he worked on military and industrial mathematics. Hugh was a distant father and an alcoholic. He died of a heart attack on July 19, 1982 with E discovering his body at home.
2. His sister, Elizabeth, long troubled by schizophrenia, committed suicide in 1996.
3. In 1998, his mother died of lung cancer.
4. His cousin, Jennifer Lewis was a flight attendant on the plane that struck The Pentagon during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Following the death of his mother, Eels released their album ‘Electro-Shock Blues’. A lot of the music is about death and funerals but don’t be put off. It is morbid but also brililant (one of my top 5 albums of all time). All of his other work is brilliant aswell –check out Daisys of the Galaxy and Blinking Lights.
Fave Eels song: Old Shit/New Shit
