‘I’m something of a madman... If it’s booze, I drink the place dry. If drugs, I take everything and scrape the carpet for little crumbs’

The rocker helped define the sound, look and attitude of metal. But his persistence through addiction, his connection to audience and a late-career reality TV show endeared him to…

He pioneered heavy metal, became an unlikely reality TV star and performed a colossal final concert two weeks before his death.