On their Superunknown album, Soundgarden wrote a song about him called Spoonman.

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None of those groups is a household name, save for Soundgarden, which scored a No. 1 hit with the album "Superunknown" in 1994 and just this year embarked on a North American reunion tour after more than a decade apart.

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