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Layne Staley: Angry Chair is a biography by Adriana Rubio about the lead vocalist Layne Staley of the rock band Alice in Chains. As it is known, the book "Layne Staley: Angry Chair — A Look Inside the Heart and Soul of an Incredible Musician" written by Adriana Rubio (Argentinean journalist and a fan of Alice in Chains) features 50 pages of photos of Staley's art work, sketches, diary entries, and childhood pictures. It also contains his last interview that was made less than three months before Staley died from an overdose of heroin and cocaine. It is named after his famous song, "Angry Chair".
Controversy
The content of Rubio's book, including what she described as Layne's final interview was called into question in David De Sola's 2015 book Alice In Chains:The Untold Story. In the book, he questions not only the content of the interview, which portrays Staley as using his lyrics in casual conversation, it dispels the claim that she held the interview at all. While Rubio's book received massive coverage during the time of its release, De Sola's counter claims were not quoted by any of the websites that cited Rubio's content as gospel truth.