WITHOUT YOU

HARRY NILSSON 

and LENNON's 'LOST WEEKEND'

Harry Nilsson was a 'juicer' and the one thing common to John Lennon and Harry's sojourn into an 18month drunk was their codependence. Alcohol is like that. Alcoholics need help and I wish I had been able to work with Harry Nilsson as to why and what drove him to drink himself to death at the age of 53 (beyond the life expectancy of most alcoholics it's true). John, not so much he was an inveterate dabbler with substance abuse although the spell as house husband when Sean was little may have hidden a prolonged addiction to smoking heroin, a drug Lennon partook of early and seemed to enjoy although everyone will tell you that it does nothing for your creative inspiration unlike cannabis, hashish and/or LSD.  Now Music Italy 1970 from Helaberada has posted copies of some interesting articles on the subject, mostly of Harry and his addiction to alcohol and the curious episode (for Lennon perhaps) where the two men hooked up to have a prolonged spell of massive self indulgence. Sharing a house with fellow alcoholics Ringo Starr and Keith Moon couldn't have helped and who ever thought THAT might be productive!? Hanging out with fellow juicers Alice Cooper and Micky Dolenz amongst others was a recipe for death let alone disaster! 
Both singers with a history they self identified as frustrated and under appreciated 'geniuses' Lennon one half of an extraordinary songwriting partnership and realising the sum of the four parts were greater than any of The Beatles singly (with the possibly exception of Paul) and feeling the seven year itch with Yoko who turned out to be clever enough to understand her man and who appears to have managed the whole episode if rumours are to be believed.  Nilsson the possessor of one of those voices that can soar to the stratosphere and do almost anything but thrown away his fame on the back of egotistical self pity perhaps. Consulting John in panic at losing his voice the smoker and inveterate drinker wondered why . . . . . 



See here:

How every sad drunk has appeared at least once in their lives. They think it's funny. It's not

Alcohol certainly affect your judgement!