Yes to all that you've said, and in a completely different genre, one of the greatest comebacks from "barely functional junkie" was John Frusciante, who looks w

Yes to all that you've said, and in a completely different genre, one of the greatest comebacks from "barely functional junkie" was John Frusciante, who looks way healthier in his 50s than he did in his 20s. Back to Coltrane, it's incredible he lived just a little over a decade after the events in the article, and just how much and how different music he put out (as band member or leader) in those last years of his life. I'm an atheist, but for lack of better words, from what I get out of his music and how his life turned out, I feel Coltrane was a human with a soul too big for his body to handle.