dec 2, 2016 - GQ UK The time we went to Hunter S Thompson's invite-only wake

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The time we went to Hunter S Thompson's invite-only wake

Eleven years after Hunter S Thompson's suicide, we've gone back into the GQ archives to bring you Robert Chalmers' 1995 memoir of the invite-only wake that honoured the man who had a bowl of cocaine for breakfast.

By Robert Chalmers
2 December 2016

For the drug-devouring, gunslinging godfather of of Gonzo journalism, there was only one way out of this world - a bullet in his brain. Blinking through the aftermath of Thompson's smoking-barrel suicide, Robert Chalmers joined Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn et al for Hunter's intimate, invite-only memorial bash and raised a defiant fist to a great American maverick.

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