As befitting one of the most prolific musical collaborators of the last 40 years, Mark Lanegan meant many different things to many different people. But, whether you knew Mark – who sadly passed away this week at the age of 57 – as the frontman of the Screaming Trees; as a key member of Queens Of The Stone Age; one half of The Gutter Twins; a prolific solo artist; a tragi-comic memoirist; or via an endless list of musical dalliances with the likes of Kurt Cobain, Isobel Campbell and the Manic Street Preachers; he always remained one thing: defiantly, unflinchingly himself. “Know who you are and fearlessly follow your heart,” was one of his personal maxims and, as with most things, Mark walked it exactly as he talked it. His life was far from easy: a diffi...