Mark Lanegan, from Screaming Trees and Queens Of The Stone Age passed away yesterday, at his home in Killarney, Ireland. He was 57. There’s no word on the cause of death.
Screaming Trees came up in the grunge wave of the ’90s, with the hits “Nearly Lost You” and “All I Know”. They actually had a record deal before Nirvana, and Mark is considered one of the pioneers of the grunge movement.
Lanegan also released a dozen solo albums, and was an on-again, off-again member of Queens of the Stone Age, where he sang lead vocals on several tracks off their classic album “Songs for the Deaf”. He also cowrote their biggest hit “No One Knows”.
In March of 2021, he contracted the corona virus and got really sick. He even slipped in and out of a coma over several months. He later said, quote, “I was one of those knuckleheads who was wary of the vaccine. But I learned my lesson.”, he wrote a book about his ordeal called “Devil in a Coma”.
Although he is gone his legacy will live on through his music and books.
RIP
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