Mark Linkous's life was one Dark Night Of The Soul

The suicide of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous means the loss of a prolific – if melancholic – musical talent. Rob Fitzpatrick pays tributeThe really upsetting thing about the sudden death of Mark Linkous was that it just wasn't much of a surprise. He always seemed precisely like the sort of person who would end up taking their own life in some terrible, wasteful way and there wasn't really anything anyone could do about it.Linkous's debut album as Sparklehorse, 1995's fantastically sp...

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