Shara Nelson: a rare talent who needs help not condemnation

Mental illness is so often mistaken for genius in pop – unless the sufferer is female, when the world queues to condemnA friend of mine recently posted a Facebook link to a 90s documentary on former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read's stalker, the intimidating and clearly quite unwell Blue Tulip Rose Read. "The Pete Tong story reminded me of this," he quipped. Unaware of the "Pete Tong story" I Googled his name and read, with my heart sinking into my stomach, that he had put a restraining order on sing...

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