Layne Staley, the Alice in Chains lead singer ... Even before Cobain’s suicide, the grunge world had been rocked by tragedy. Andrew Wood, lead singer of the promising band Mother Love Bone ...

Compare that with the death of another grunge luminary, Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley ... But, as with Cobain and Staley, Mother Love Bone leader Andrew Wood struggled with heroin ...

Fifteen years ago this week, Layne Staley died at the age of 34 in his ... battles with heroin addiction and depression, and Andrew Wood, who passed after a heroin overdose before Mother Love ...

Layne Staley's death may have been as dark as the ... Love Bone as a tribute to the latter band's late lead singer, Andrew Wood, who died in 1990 from a heroin overdose. On a tall jar holding ...

Sadly, though, Staley died from a drug overdose on April ... They won’t lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.” 19. “Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks.

Layne Staley, lead singer-guitarist for Seattle-based grunge band Alice in Chains, was found dead in his apartment Friday April 19. He was 34 and apparently had died several days earlier.