Mazzy Star: The Tragic Story Behind the Band who wrote "Fade Into You".

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Mazzy Star was responsible for the early 90’s sleeper hit Fade Into You. Featuring David Roback, who wrote most of the band’s music, he was a talented multi-instrumentalist. He was joined by singer Hope Sandoval who wrote most of the band’s lyrics, the breathy vocalist with a haunting yet hopeful voice.

Their hit track was released on the band’s 1993 sophomore album “So Tonight That I Might See.” There was something pure about the band’s sound and their recording process. In a 2020 interview with Refinery 29, Sandoval said:

"I like to hang out in restaurants and cafés, eavesdrop on people's conversations and collect new stories. Then I go home and spend the evenings embellishing them."

Part of the band’s magic came from the soulmate-like connection between Roback and Sandoval. In a 2018 interview with Double J, Sandoval said that and i quote:
"Half the time we don’t even really need to speak to each other, we use telepathy." The pair was rumored to briefly be a couple around the time of recording their debut album, “She Hangs Brightly.”

The song Fade Into You became an anthem for lovelorn teenagers in the 90’s & Hollywood loved it too. The song was licensed to more than 30 movies and television shows & had artists like Ben Harper, Kelly Clarkson and Dinosaur Jr have all covered the song.

But before Roback became a musician he found himself in New York in the late 70’s wanting to become a painter telling the LA Times in 1990 “I went to New York mainly to be part of the art scene,”“But I gradually found myself getting more inspired by what was happening in music than in art. . . . People like Patti Smith and Television. I felt like a punk. That's the attitude I Iidentifid with, but when I picked up the guitar and started playing it, the music didn’t come out sounding punk. It was something else. . . ..” After brief stint in new york he would head back to Los Angeles.

Roback and Sandoval both started off in other bands before coming together to start Mazzy Star.

Roback went to UC Berkeley and started his band with his brother Steven called Unconscious with Susanna Hoffs, who would later be known for co-founding The Bangles. The two brothers started their next band, Rain Parade, in 1982, and they gained popularity in the L.A. indie scene.

The soft spoken Sandoval came from East LA where her parents worked in factory and she was the youngest of ten children. She would form the group Going Home while she was still in high school with frien d Sylvia Gomez in the early 80’s. Both women were big fans of Rain Parade, & they decided to make a bold move to get on their radar.

After a 1983 Rain Parade concert, Gomez snuck backstage to give David Roback a demo tape. At the time, Roback was under contract with Rough Trade records and Going Home was still unsigned, but doing gigs around LA. Upon hearing the demo, Roback offered to produce Going Home’s first album and play guitar on the record, but even to this day it has yet to be released.. It was also around this time that Rob

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