Queen High
November, 1987
When 36-year-old singer-composer John Hiatt says he couldn't have handled large-scale success before now, you have to believe him. "I was a scared and scary practicing drug addict and alcoholic until August of 1984," he confesses. Not long after he became sober, his wife committed suicide. "Suffice it to say, we were both very sick," he explains. "One of us survived and one of us didn't." Hiatt has since remarried and now lives in Nashville with his three-year-old d...
