Thursday 24th April 2014 by Edward Keeble

As the late great Bill Hicks once said: "if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them." Damon Albarn recently hinted that his work with Gorillaz was recorded under the influence of heroin - and that was some of his finest work, ever.

But there's rarely a happy ending when drugs are involved, even if Albarn has straightened himself out in the years since, but in many cases these artists burned out all too quickly, with addiction issues breaking up the band and leaving their lives in tatters. The sad thing being that addiction often entered the picture, the drugs got harder and it became more and more apparent that it's no longer 1967. 

But, we were left with some great music - mostly...