Why celebrities can't stop, won't stop — even when they briefly stop

LCD Soundsystem and the problem of the ephemeral celebrity farewell

LCD Soundsystem performs in New York in 2016.
(Image credit: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)

Six short years ago, LCD Soundsystem said goodbye.

The dance-punk band played a sold-out farewell show at Madison Square Garden in April 2011. A box-set recording of that multi-hour concert, (now ironically) titled The Long Goodbye, was released. There was a documentary in which frontman James Murphy cried. A "small shrine" to the band was erected in a Williamsburg record store.

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