POP MUSIC
THE LAST WORD: Our Euphemism of the Month goes to the Seattle band Pearl Jam. According to a history of the group just penned by bassist Jeff Ament, the end of Pearl Jam’s forerunner Mother Love Bone came about when singer Andrew Wood “left to go do his solo album.” That’s a unique way of saying that Wood had died of a drug overdose in April, 1990.
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