After a fling with disco, Williams lost it completely.
Adrift in a self-created miasma of paranoia and hard drugs, he brandished a revolver in 1977 and threatened to kill Little Richard over a drug deal gone sour.
This ugly incident between friends, reportedly, was the impetus for Richard to clean up and rejoin the ministry.
Williams, though, sank further into the abyss.
On Jan. 7, 1980, he was killed by a bullet to the brain in Los Angeles. He was 44.
Although his death officially is listed as a suicide, theories persist that he may have been murdered due to his alleged involvement in drugs and prostitution.
8:27pm
Rattlesnake Chicken:
Jerry only has an axe for the IRS! Hannibal might have been lost in a Larry fog! It's late for so many anymore! Keep it 45, FW!
Hannibal's story, which, again, he later disavowed, was the Williams had humiliated Lewis by slapping him off-camera on the American Hot Wax film set in front of a bunch of people...and that the Killer had later gotten vengeance.
8:35pm
Rattlesnake Chicken:
HA! Sounds like fat talk if ya ask me! I dig the lines the flute lays down!
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Adrift in a self-created miasma of paranoia and hard drugs, he brandished a revolver in 1977 and threatened to kill Little Richard over a drug deal gone sour.
This ugly incident between friends, reportedly, was the impetus for Richard to clean up and rejoin the ministry.
Williams, though, sank further into the abyss.
On Jan. 7, 1980, he was killed by a bullet to the brain in Los Angeles. He was 44.
Although his death officially is listed as a suicide, theories persist that he may have been murdered due to his alleged involvement in drugs and prostitution.
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