Mick Jagger, Van Morrison, Slash and other legends turned down working with Avicii. Tim seemed to have slipped away in a similar way if the restaurant had caught on fire it would not have bothered him.ģ. That shiftless and absent-minded look, the satisfied and blank expression. Jesse had, since then, learned to read the small signs, the changes in a face. The painkillers had soon become too expensive and Jesse’s father had switched to the drug that in its structure was most similar to the morphine pills and gave the corresponding pain relief. When his father then found out that the woman he’d been seeing was unfaithful, he closed the bedroom door and pulled down the curtains. For almost a year, he had struggled with surgeries and rehab while on painkillers. One day when Jesse was a teenager, his father had torn a tendon in his shoulder on a construction site where he worked and became bedridden. Jesse recognized the look from his father. They went to a restaurant just below Tim’s apartment on Karlavägen, and by the time they sat down to their pizzas, Tim’s pupils had shrunk to pinheads. When they finally got out on the street, Jesse saw how Tim secretly put a pill in his mouth. Jesse went to the studio on Styrmansgatan, waiting for Tim to finish his work. They had decided to have lunch, but Tim did not show up. But now Tim was behaving in a way that made Jesse both annoyed and puzzled. Jesse and Tim now talked to each other quite intimately via text messages, discussing gossip and secrets. Jesse had given his old sports car to Tim as a birthday present, a 1965 Ford Thunderbird, and taken Tim and Emily to the Las Vegas desert to shoot targets with his rifles and pistols. Bergling’s struggles with prescription painkillers were apparent to his close acquaintances as early as 2012.Įver since Tim started playing at Jesse club XS in Las Vegas, the club manager and his main attraction had become close friends. The camera panned towards the skyscraper’s dark windows, and there, behind his decks, was a smiling Avicii playing ‘Levels’.Ģ. Well-dressed office workers stood in airy rooms at a quiet corporate party. First came a couple of commercials for cars and one for soft drinks. The gang at the hospital was interested in something else.ĭuring the first commercial break, Tim hushed the nurse who was in on her rounds, and everyone turned towards the small screen. Every year the game was one of the world’s biggest sporting events, and now over a hundred million Americans were sitting down to watch the New York Giants face the New England Patriots. On Sunday night the Super Bowl was broadcast, the final game of the American National Football League. Several times a day, Tim’s father called, worried and restless, and wondered if it wouldn’t be better if Tim flew home to get care in Sweden…Īfter almost a week, Emily turned on the old TV that hung on the wall in the hospital room. Emily Goldberg had come to New York and paced around the corridors and answered anxious emails from Tim’s mother. He could not eat solid food to keep his stomach going he instead got thin flakes of ice. How did they end up here, anyway? How did the situation get so out of hand? As soon as Tim woke up, he grimaced in pain and was given a liquid morphine drug that dissolved the stomach cramps. He later called this time in the hospital “the most anxiety and stress free days I can remember the past 6 years.” From Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii: He’d been rushed via ambulance after experiencing stomach pains that were eventually diagnosed as severe pancreatitis. Tim Bergling first saw his 2012 Super Bowl Commercial while in a New York hospital. Here, in italics, are 12 of the book’s most revelatory passages, excerpted courtesy of Sphere Books.ġ. While the story of the rise and fall of Avicii is familiar to many, Tim offers personal anecdotes and insights that have never before been widely shared.
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