"Bradley-WeLoveLydiaLove" - читать интересную книгу автора (Bradley Denton)

the special-events arena on the University of Texas campus. The party was
supposed to include a concert, but Lydia didn't show up. She was in the throes
of her second creative burst.

The music that emanated from her house over the next three weeks was loud,
distorted, disruptive, and Just Not Done in that suburb. The neighbors called
the cops every night, and at the end of Lydia's songwriting frenzy, one of the
cops moved in with her.

The cop suggested that Lydia take the advance money for her second album and
build a home and studio out in the Hill Country west of the city, where she
could crank her amplifiers as high as she liked. He supervised the construction
while Lydia toured for a year, and when she came home they went inside together
and stayed there for a year and a half. Lydia's career might have ended then had
it not been for the fact that both her tour and her second album had grossed
more money than the rest of CCA's acts combined. So between CCA, the tabloid
papers and TV shows ("Lydia Love Pregnant with Elvis's Siamese Twins"), and the
continuing popularity of her music, Lydia's name and image remained in the
public eye even if Lydia didn't.

Then the ex-cop showed up at an emergency room in Kerrville with a few pellets
of birdshot in his buttocks, and the county sheriff found the alleged shooter
making loud noises in her basement studio. CCA rejoiced, and the third album
sold even better than the first two.

Lydia's next boyfriend lasted almost as long as the ex-cop had. He was your
basic Texas bubba (Lydia seems to go for us common-man types), and he and Lydia
settled into a happy routine that could have ruined her. But then he went to a
rodeo and was seduced by two barrel racers. The photos and videos hit the stands
and the tube before the bubba even got out of bed. When he tried to go back to
Lydia's, he found the driveway blocked by a pile of his possessions. They were
on fire.

Creative Burst Number Four followed, and that resulted in the twenty-three songs
of Love in Flames, my favorite album by anybody, ever. Lydia followed that with
a world tour that took two years of her life and made CCA enough money to buy
Canada, if they'd wanted it. And it was while Lydia was on that tour, Daniels
says, that CCA bugged her house. The corporation wanted to be sure that they
could send help fast if she hurt herself in one of her rages.

When Lydia came home from the tour, she discovered that a hailstorm had beaten
up her roof. She hired an Austin company to repair it, and Christopher Jennings,
a twenty-four-year-old laborer and semi-professional guitarist, was on the crew.
When the job was finished and the rest of the crew went back to the city, he
stayed.

Christopher and Lydia had been together for almost eighteen months when Lydia
agreed to do a free concert in India. They went together, but Christopher took a
side trip to Nepal. On the way back to New Delhi, his plane detoured to avoid a
storm, hit a worse one, and went down in a mountainous wasteland claimed by both