Slash pays tribute to late step-daughter Lucy-Bleu Knight: “My heart is permanently fractured”
Slash has paid tribute to his late step-daughter Lucy-Bleu Knight, who passed away earlier this week.
It was announced on Monday (July 22) that Knight died on July 19 at the age of 25. No further information about her passing has been shared publicly, and Knight’s family have requested that “social media speculation be kept to a minimum as they grieve and process this devastating loss”.
Now, Slash has spoken publicly about her death for the first time. In a post on Instagram, he wrote: “My heart is permanently fractured. I will never ever stop missing you & remembering what a beacon of happiness, laughter, creativity & beauty you have always been. & still are. The brightest light in the lives of so many that loved you so much. I find solace in the hope that you are at peace now. I will love you eternally.”
Knight worked as a day-to-day manager at Electric Lady Management and also appeared to be a tattoo artist, often sharing her work on social media.
The day before her death was confirmed, Slash cancelled several dates of his ‘S.E.R.P.E.N.T’ tour due to “unforeseen circumstances”, which was in support of his recent blues covers album ‘Orgy Of The Damned’.
In other Slash news, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist recently revealed that he can’t remember many of his early blues gigs as they were “a drunken kind of thing”.
Back in 1996, he formed his blues covers band Slash’s Blues Balls with the likes of Teddy “Big Bag Zig Zag” Andreadis, Johnny Griparic, Alvino Bennet, Bobby Schneck and Dave McLaurin.
Speaking about the group in a new interview with People, the rock legend opened up about how though those blues gigs served as inspiration for him, he was too drunk to remember any of it.
“It was such a drunken kind of thing, and it was just for the fun of it,” he told the outlet. “I do not recall any of those gigs.”
Explaining how the band came to be, Slash said: “When I first met them, a couple of the guys, they were playing in a band called The Screaming Cocktail Hour, which was a great blues band that used to play at the local Rogie’s and Baked Potato and Cozy’s and all these small little blues dives around L.A. And I would go and hang out with them and get there 10 or 11pm and jam until two o’clock in the morning.”
He continued: “I got a couple of other guys and so we started doing the same circuit, but then that turned into an actual tour, and we did it on and off for a couple of years, even managed to make it to Europe.”
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