In the wake of Heavenly's Space Manatee

Few people noticed when Heavenly's drummer, Mathew Fletcher, killed himself. But, says the Hold Steady's Craig Finn, it is through barely known stories such as his that the bonds betweeen fans and music can be most clearly understoodI hadn't really thought that much about Mathew Fletcher for a while. I'd first heard Heavenly's single Space Manatee on a college radio station in autumn 1996, when the DJ had introduced the song by mentioning that Mathew, who was their drummer, had taken his own li...

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