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Bachelor #2: Bob Pfeifer

There’s a new scientific report out that suggests a broken heart can actually lead to a fatal heart attack. Whatever the case, it’s true that heartbreak is a real drag, but it’s also true that art—both the creation and experience of it—can be real cathartic and helpful when it comes to dealing with (sigh) the end of a relationship.

August 1, 1987
Bill Holdship

Bachelor #2: Bob Pfeifer

Bill Holdship

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There’s a new scientific report out that suggests a broken heart can actually lead to a fatal heart attack. Whatever the case, it’s true that heartbreak is a real drag, but it’s also true that art—both the creation and experience of it—can be real cathartic and helpful when it comes to dealing with (sigh) the end of a relationship. This has been true from Shakespeare’s sonnets to Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, and be it “Since I Don’t Have You” or “Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell,” it’s often been true in rock ’n’ roll. Bob Pfeifer— former leader of the Human Switchboard, one of the best of those numerous bands that fall under the category of Great Bands Very Few People Ever Heard— has a wonderful new solo LP out called After Words, and it’s all about what happens after you hear those famous words: “Let’s just be friends.”

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