Later Work and Death
During the following years Hardin moved between England and the U.S. His heroin addiction had taken control of his life by the time his last album, Nine, was released on GM Records in the UK in 1973 (the album did not see a US release until it appeared on Antilles Records in 1976).
He sold his writers' rights in the late 1970s.
Tim Hardin died of a heroin overdose in 1980, and his remains are buried in the Twin Oaks Cemetery in Turner, Oregon. Hardin's song "Black Sheep Boy" apparently tells the story about himself returning to his heroin addiction. The Song is said to thematize a visit to his family which caused said relapse after he got offered heroin by a local, after he had been clean for a longer time.
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