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Leif Garrett 
A film star at the age of 12, a pop star a year later, über-Californian Leif
Garrett burned briefly but brightly during the 70s, his biggest
hit being 1979's I Was Made For Dancin', which topped the
charts around the world.
Then, three days before his 18th birthday, he drove his Porsche
off the highway while on his way to meet his Colombian coke
dealer, Carlos. Garrett survived but his passenger and friend
Roland Winkler was crippled for life.
Throughout the 80s and 90s, Garrett returned to acting and
fought an ongoing battle to get off the drugs.
By 1998 he was pretty much clean when his girlfriend
died. She had a hole in her heart and contracted a blood virus
which killed her.
Garrett turned to heroin, got busted, and underwent the
Waismann rapid detox program. In 1999 he formed a band called
Godspeed who achieved little, and was last seen playing with an LA
outfit called F8.
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