From millionaire heartthrob to tragic end: The sad story of Brian Connolly

achieved only modest success. That same year, his 23-year-old partner, Jean, gave birth to their son. In a 1996 Channel 4 documentary, Don’t Leave Me This Way, Connolly admitted he had suffered six heart attacks and acknowledged that years of alcohol abuse had taken a devastating toll on his body.

By the mid-1990s, the once golden boy of glam rock was continue reading …