Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland, born in 1967 and hailing from San Jose, was the shape-shifting frontman of Stone Temple Pilots, cutting six albums with them across two stints. Onstage he was flamboyant and chaotic, forever changing his look, and his voice could slide from a grunge growl to a glam croon to something close to a lounge singer's purr without breaking stride.

His 1998 solo album 12 Bar Blues let that restlessness off the leash: "Barbarella" is woozy, neo-psychedelic art-pop that sounds nothing like the arena grunge that made his name. In 2003 he joined the supergroup Velvet Revolver, singing for them until 2008, and later came Happy in Galoshes with "Missing Cleveland", work with Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts and a 2015 album with Art of Anarchy. Across all of it he released four solo studio albums, and his various projects sold over 50 million albums.

Substance abuse problems ran through his career, leading to a string of arrests and to his being fired from both Velvet Revolver and Stone Temple Pilots. He died of an accidental drug overdose on December 3, 2015, aged 48, and was found on his tour bus.

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