The album Chris Cornell said he did the worst

The Beatles took LSD around the release of albums like now revolver i Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bandwhich led others to think that perhaps this type of substance abuse is the secret to unlocking hidden aspects of creativity. “I don’t think my fans get high just because I did it, you know,” said Paul McCartney when asked about his relationship with LSD, “but the thing is, that’s not the point of anyway.”

Damon Albarn struggled with heroin addiction for a while, as he initially turned to it to help him work and create, but constantly found himself slipping away. “(Heroin) freed me. I hate to talk about it for my daughter, my family. But for me, it was incredibly creative,” she said, “(Heroin) makes you a person very isolated, and ultimately anything it depends on is really not good.”

Many artists can recognize that something is a problem and then seek appropriate help; however, others struggle with it. In Chris Cornell’s case, he needed his bandmates to pull him out of a hole he was in. Their conversations drifted away from the band and more toward Cornell’s health as his drug addiction was spiraling out of control.

“Realizing how it was affecting the people I cared about made a huge difference,” he said, “The other three members of Audioslave didn’t know me that well, and when we started making the first record, I was pretty much at the worst. I think they just looked at it like, ‘Oh, that’s the kind of guy we have in our band now.’

Although Audioslave was writing good music, the dependence on Cornell was becoming too much, and the band had to step in. “We were writing great songs, but then we got scared,” he said, “Their drive wasn’t coming from a place like, ‘We’re worried about our careers.’ It was coming from a place like, ‘We’re worried about you.’ . I felt a great sense of sadness and fear in them that made me wake up.”

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