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DAVE
GAHAN'S OVERDOSE - 28TH MAY 1996
Summary: A digest of small newspaper snippets breaking the news of Dave's overdose at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, Los Angeles. [194 words in total]
View pages: The Guardian The Daily Mirror
Try
also:
"Dave Gahan Slashes Wrists In
L.A." [NME, 2nd September 1995]
Introduction
to Bong 29 [August 1996]
"Pop
Singer Arrested"
[The Guardian, 29th
May 1996. Words: Uncredited.]
David Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode, was under arrest last night in California after taking a drug overdose. Bail was set at $10,000 (£6,600), a detective said at West Hollywood police station, where he is being held for investigation of cocaine possession and being under the influence of heroin.
Police and paramedics were called to the Sunset Marquis hotel in Hollywood,
popular with musicians, and found Gahan, aged 34, unconscious on the floor of a
hotel room at 1:15 am. [1] The
people with him, who summoned help, said he passed out 10 minutes after
injecting a “speedball” – a mixture of cocaine and heroin. He was taken to
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and treated for an overdose, then taken to the
police station and booked.
"Depeche
Star Drugs Drama"
[The Daily Mirror, 29th May 1996. Words: Uncredited.]
The lead singer of British rock band Depeche Mode was found unconscious in his Hollywood bungalow yesterday after injecting a drugs overdose. [2]
David Gahan, who last year tried to commit suicide by slashing his wrists, was rushed to hospital after a mystery woman phoned paramedics.
The 34-year-old star was later charged with drug offences. Last night he was
languishing in a police cell, unable to immediately raise his £6,000 bail.
[1] - This detail clears up something that has often confused me from the way many articles report the incident. It's sometimes described as happening "on the night of 28th May" which could be taken as either "the night of 27th-28th" because it was after midnight, or "the night of the 28th-29th" and it was just very late at night. But if it caught the papers for the 29th despite LA being 8 hours behind the UK, it must have been the former. [continue]
[2] - Whoops! The Guardian article is correct - Dave was at a hotel when this happened. The reporter may have got confused with the August 1995 suicide attempt, which was at Dave's house. [continue]