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Sex sells, sure. But in the music magazine business, it's death that can make a big payday at the newsstand.
When the folks at Ticketmaster's Live put the rock band Smashing Pumpkins on their August cover, they had no idea that tragic circumstances would make the issue so timely. Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin died of a heroin overdose last week in New York City, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, pictured on the Live cover, was...