Cracking America

A HELL of a lot blood, sweat, and tears were spilled during our tour of America in 1984. It was the year that we finally conquered the United States and we were duly anointed on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine, which billed us as the Fab Five in comparison to the Beatles. We were honored with two Grammy Awards, and we fulfilled our lifelong dreams of performing in front of a sellout audience at Madison Square Garden. It was fantastic. For a while everything that we touched seemed to turn to gold. But adulation comes with a price; and over the next few months we were about to experience a series of deeply disturbing incidents. The US leg of what fans referred to as out Sing Blue Silver tour that year was the last time that all five of us went on a major tour together during the 1980s. John, in particular, would en up in a very dark place, and I would finish the year secretly questiong whether or not I wanted to remain in the band.