The Last Miles - The Music of Miles Davis, 1980 - 1991 - George Cole
Into the shadows
The Last Miles - The Music of Miles Davis, 1980 - 1991 - George Cole
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George Cole was educated at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. He is a freelance music and technology journalist whose work has appeared in Music Week, Jazzwise, the Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, Newsweek, The Guardian, Empire, Gramophone, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer and The Independent.
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The years 1976 to 1980 are often described as Miles’s “lost years,” “silent years” or “missing years;” but whatever you call them they were certainly the most chaotic years of his life. And for anyone who cared about Miles, they were also the most worrying. Miles had had major physical and emotional problems before in his life – during the 1950s, for example, he acquired a heroin habit which became so bad that he had to drop out of the music scene for a time. And bouts of sickness seemed to be a common theme throughout Miles’s life. But none of those dark periods could match the journey of selfdestruction that Miles seemingly embarked upon in the mid-1970s.