Fame might beckon, but through everything echoes the plangent question: how can you conduct a private life when you are quite literally joined at the hip to your sister?
We walked along a boardwalk that led us to a haunted house that was tilting on stilts above the plangent green ocean, with sandbags where its backyard used to be.
The man who fundamentally changed songwriting has penned popular music's most kaleidoscopic streams of consciousness and also its most plangent paeans.