Musician Dr. John gestures to the crowd during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana April 26, 2013. Dr. John performs with the Preservation hall Jazz Band during Gulf Aid benefit concert at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 16, 2010. A conversation with Dr. John almost required a translator to understand his malapropisms, Creole patois, hipster lingo and fabricated words, all spiced with profanities. After Los Angeles, Dr. John moved to New York in the late 1970s, and in 1989 he finally overcame his heroin problem. Dr. John was married twice and told the New York Times he had "a lot" of children.

Source: Irish Independent June 07, 2019 06:33 UTC