Blog: No Rock And Roll Fun

He's been written off by the internet before, but this time, sadly, it's for real: Lux Interior has died . Born Erick Lee Purkhiser, popular legend has him meeting his wife and longtime collaborator Kirsty Wallace when she was hitchhiking. The pair bonded over mutual loves of art and music, and in 1973 formed The Cramps. Purkhiser's stage name came from a car advert - raising the possibility that he might have wound up being called Cup Holders. First moving to Akron, the tyre-and-new-wave foundry of Ohio, and then, in 1975, to New York, the [...]