In the winter of 1994, Adam Duritz was one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. He was also in the midst of a mental crisis. “When everybody loves me I will never be lonely,” he had sung on “Mr Jones”, his band Counting Crows’ smash hit single. But fame has a price tag when it comes fast and you are hiding a mental illness from the world. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana’s lead singer and Duritz’s friend, had shot himself in the head earlier that spring.
“That scared the s*** out of me,” Duritz recalls. “It taught me what could happen to me. I saw us as very similar in ways that a lot of people didn’t know. It was terrifying.”
