Artful dodgers of pop

Courtney Taylor-Taylor wanted to die.

“About a year and a half ago, I was super depressed,” the Dandy Warhols singer recalls. “Have you ever had one of those suicidal periods? One of those ‘if I wasn’t such a spineless prick I’d kill myself’ depressions. I couldn’t get out of bed and brush my teeth. That’s how low I was.”

He won’t go into specifics, beyond saying things were falling apart in his personal life. He’d also just lost a friend, playwright Sebastian Horsley, to a fatal heroin overdose in 2010 (opinions differ as to whether or not the Englishman took his own life).