.

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy in Rehab

Band's frontman receiving treatment for prescription painkiller addiction

April 6, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Jeff Tweedy entered a Chicago rehabilitation facility last week to receive treatment for an addiction to prescription painkillers. The Wilco frontman had been taking the medication to treat migraine headaches, an ongoing condition notably documented in the 2002 band documentary I'm Trying To Break Your Heart.

As of now, Wilco's scheduled spring tour -- set to kick off April 21st at the Blue Note in Columbia, Missouri, and conclude two weeks later at the Coachella festival in California -- is still on. However, the band's new album, A Ghost Is Born, has been bumped back to June 22nd. "Nonesuch [Records] moved the record back two weeks to accommodate treatment and recovery," says Wilco publicist Deb Bernadini.

A European promotional tour set for last week was canceled to give Tweedy the chance to get treatment, but the band's only scheduled European date, a May 28th engagement in Barcelona, is still in place and a spring European tour is being planned.

Wilco tour dates:

4/21: Columbia, MO, Blue Note
4/23: New Orleans, Orpheum
4/24-25: Austin, Stubb's
4/27: Santa Fe, NM, Lensic Theater
4/28: Flagstaff, AZ, Orpheum
4/29: Tucson, AZ, Rialto Theater
5/1: Indio, CA, Coachella Festival
6/6: Pittsburgh, PA, Three Rivers Arts Festival
6/7: Poughkeepsie, NY, The Chance
6/11: Manchester, TN, Bonnaroo Festival

To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

prev
Music Main Next

blog comments powered by Disqus
Daily Newsletter

Get the latest RS news in your inbox.

Sign up to receive the Rolling Stone newsletter and special offers from RS and its
marketing partners.

X

We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.

Song Stories

“1999”

Prince | 1982

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.

More Song Stories entries »