http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/22/obituaries/22HOOK.html And with his deep, implacable voice, he sang of lust and loneliness, rage and despair in songs so bleak that they sometimes made him cry behind his dark glasses. "No matter what anybody says, it all comes down to the same thing," he once said. "A man and a woman, a broken heart and a broken home."