Sometimes, goes the old spiritual, I feel like a motherless child. What is it about the loss of a mother? Does something inside the child feel that the mother chose to leave? Abandonment is probably the root of paranoia. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, John Lydon, so many rock ’n’ roll singers lost their mothers at an early age. There must be something to this. A friend tells me of a parallel abandonment in hip-hop. Abandonment by the father drives that car.
