Smack to the max. Met him several times & he dated a friend of mine for a spell. Sad case, very talented dude, but fragile as all fuck.

Actually they broke up cos Lupton's a heavy-duty heroin addict. I love his lyrics and the Child Ballads stuff too, but that's the reason.

This IS an EP — their second.

Plus John Cale wore a goalie mask onstage (see the cover of '77's "Guts") for creepadelic reasons years before the release of Friday the 13th, thereby proving spookily prescient. This alone deserves applause.

Motherfucker more or less invented punk rock. Please lock yourself in a room with "Sister Ray" on repeat and then tell me that he's not worth being "a figure of hero worship in the music department."