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Elliott Smith Apparent Suicide
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by Joal Ryan
Oct 22, 2003, 12:05 PM PT

He was once dubbed "the unhappiest man in the land." His most renown song was called "Miss Misery." But Elliott Smith sounded disappointed that he was often asked, "Why are you so sad?"

The singer-songwriter, whose fragile, Beatles-tinged melodies elevated to him mythic status on the indie scene and brought him unlikely, Oscar-nominated success, died Tuesday of an apparent suicide at his apartment in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, officials said. He was 34.

Smith's publicist confirmed the death to reporters. His official Website(www.elliottsmith.com) went black Wednesday morning; only the words "goodbye elliott" in the title bar.

"Why are you so sad?" was a question consistently posed to him in interviews, Smith told Salon.com in 2000. To the Nebraska-born musician, what was interpreted as sadness, was really just humanness.

"Just because people have a range of emotions and thoughts...sometimes they get ecstatically happy about something and at other times ridiculously depressed, doesn't mean that there's something wrong with them," Smith told Salon.com in 2000.

Referred to by authorities by his given name, Steven Paul Smith, Smith's body was found by his unidentified live-in girlfriend at 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Grace Brady said. Smith was in the kitchen, with knife wounds to the chest, Brady said.

He was pronounced dead at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. The L.A. County coroner's office, which had not confirmed Smith's death Wednesday morning, pending notification of next of kin, was notified of the possible suicide-related case at 11:55 p.m.

Smith, who made the leap from a small Northwest record labels to Hollywood's own DreamWorks in 1998, the same year he earned an Academy Award nomination for his Good Will Hunting soundtrack contribution, "Miss Misery," was at work on his sixth album, From a Basement on the Hill, at the time of his death, Rolling Stone said. The collection was to be released next year.

In August, he released the vinyl single, "Pretty (Ugly Before)," with the flip side, "A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free." It was his first recorded work since the 2000 album, Figure 8.

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