Richard Shannon Hoon was born in 1967 in Indiana, and left there 23
years later, to seek his fortune in Los Angeles, bearing with only $ 800.

Soon he met Vrad Smith and Rogers Stevens and found
that in addition to sharing music they shared hatred for the lives of LA glam
When Christopher Thorn and Glen Graham were added to the group, a band  was formed. Its name was a little difficult to find as the Blind Melon was chosen following ideas emerged as Brown Cow, Naked Pilgrims, Frog, etc.



The group was slow to get up and become known to the public. The right movement was made when Shannon met his compatriot Axl Rose the period
The Guns and Roses were working on Use Your Illusion. One night while they recorded  Don't Cry, Shannon got "caught" in front of a forgotten open microphone, singing
alongside Axl, Izzy heard and thus revealed their collaboration in
Don't Cry and the presence of a member of Blind Melon in  live performance of Guns.
For this cooperation indeed, Shannon Hoon,  received personal
congratulations from Donald Trump.

Then the Blind Melon got up and began touring. Opening, at the beginning,
concerts of Soundgarden. Thus began the friendship between Hoon and
Chris Cornell .



Their first album entitled Blind Melon was released in 1992 by making modest
sales. The ten-year old Heather DeLoach was the characteristic and the protagonist of the
videoclip No Rain, gave a push to both the single and album on the charts.
Immediately after, the Blind Melon followed the Lenny Kravitz world tour
as an opening act, and continued making appearances at Glastonbury and
Woodstock II by Shannon to appear wearing a white dress,
makeup and hair accessories.



The downhill started to become one way to Shannon Hoon, who would either
appeared to be drunk, or got himself involved in disputes not remembering anything
next morning. Neither the rehabilitation efforts, nor even the birth of his daughter
in 1995, unable to stop the dizzying path of the singer to
death.



On October 20, a few months after the birth of his daughter Nico Blue, he traveled with Blind Melon to give concert in New Orleans. The next morning
while those who saw him did not find a problem in behavior,
he-always according to evidence-talked on the phone with a psychic and
went and lay down on the bus of the group from where he never got up. The rest of the band, though tried to find a replacement, eventually disbanded.