"He did the heroin, fell down, and stopped breathing": If you want wild and dangerous tales, Johnny Winter's story has them all

Johnny Winter studio headshot, wearing a cowboy hat and smoking a cigarette.

In 2011 Classic Rock asked Johnny Winter's official biographer Mary Lou Sullivan to tell his story. It's a dangerous tale involving deranged bandmates, scumbag managers, and more close encounters with destruction than almost anyone else in rock'n'roll. Less than three years later he was gone.

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