As Anthony Kiedis learned of Hillel Slovak’s death

On June 25, 1988, the guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hillel Slovakhe died in his home in Los Angeles due to an overdose of heroin. He was 26 years old.

At that time, Slovak’s best friend, the frontman of
Red Hot Chili Peppers Anthony Kiedis
she was engaged to the actress
Io Skye
daughter of the British singer -songwriter
Donovan
. Skye recently published a memoirs entitled
“Say
Everything “
in which he remembers, among other things, the night when she and Kiedis prepared Slovak’s death.

When she, just 17 years old, started attending Kiedis he knew perfectly perfectly that he was a heroinomaniac. Then, when he received the call of Anthony’s friend and singer of
Thelonious Monster Bob Forrest
who “cried so strong that he could not utter a word”, the girl fears that the call had been made to give her bad news about her boyfriend, who had come out that evening to meet her trusted drug dealer.

This is the story of
Io Skye
as reported in
“Say Everything”
: “‘What is it?’ I said. ‘ It was Anthony, I knew it.

Kiedis did not immediately return to the house, Skye then went to his car and found him “curved on the front seat, with a plastic envelope with the word ‘Thank you’ crouching next to him. At the first he thought he was injecting a dose of heroin, but in reality he was writing on a notebook, perhaps pointed out some ideas for a text. Skye then invited him to enter the house immediately recall
Bob Forrest
.

In the Memoir he writes: “I could not say it. Anthony composed the number, his shoulders as a warrior slowly curled for the blow of the news of Bob. Then he straightened, reattached, grabbed the envelope with the word ‘Thank you’ and headed for the bathroom. ‘Are you doing it now?’ I said, following him.

THE
Red Hot Chili Peppers
they paid tribute to the tragic disappearance of their friend with the song
“Knock Me Down”
a hymn against heroin, included in their 1989 album
“Mother’s Milk”
. That was the first album that the band recorded with the new guitarist (and substitute for Slovak)
John Frusciante
.