Details? I only know from what I saw in the movie, but that was so long ago I barely remember shyt
- Abused by father when a child
- Sexually abused by a series of older women starting when he was 10-11.
- His mother died when he 18.
- His baby daughter died a few months after she was born, which really made him spiral downhill into drug addition.
- Got offered a record contract in 1968; celebrated by getting high on heroin, and overdosed on his grandmother's bathroom floor.
Everything else about him getting cheated out of his money and the music industry chewing him up and spitting him out was in the movie I believe.