Rest In Peace, DJ A.M.

Another genius-music-man left us yesterday. Here's the article taken from New York Daily News.

A close friend of DJ AM was so worried when the spinner didn't show up for a flight or answer his cell phone that he sped to the star's Manhattan pad - and discovered he was dead, a police source said Saturday.

Brooklyn actor Alex Burns knocked on the door of DJ AM's $2 million SoHo apartment on Friday night, but there was no answer, cops said. He asked the building's super to unlock the door, but the security chaing was latched inside, so they called the police. 

Cops broke in a short time later and found DJ AM facedown on his bed, with a crack pipe and prescription drugs nearby, police said.

When they rolled him over, cops discovered a near-empty bag of crack stuck to his chest, a source said.

The mercurial and tragic 36-year-old, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, had died of an apparent drug overdose.

Medical examiners in Manhattan performed an autopsy Saturday, but said they needed more time to determine how he died.

Burns, an actor best known for his role in the 2004 film "Garden State," was set to fly to Las Vegas with Goldstein for a performance at The Palms Casino Resort on Friday.

Palms paid tribute to the spinner Saturday night, cutting the lights on the "P," "L" and "S" letters from their giant Palms sign, leaving just "A M" illumniated over the Vegas strip.

Goldstein's death comes just a year after he barely survived a plane crash with friend and collaborator Travis Barker, the former drummer for Blink-182.

Four people were killed when the plane skidded off a South Carolina runway. Goldstein suffered severe burns.

The ex-boyfriend of Nicole Richie, Mandy Moore and most recently model Hayley Wood had battled addiction, obesity and depression for much of his life. 

"I am absolutely heartbroken," Moore said in a statement. "For those of us lucky enough to have known him, Adam radiated a contagious exuberance for life and also personified the very definition of a true friend."

After getting sober, he had gastric bypass surgery in 2003. He lost 155 pounds, dropping from a high of 324.

He performed his last show at the club Dusk in Atlantic City last Saturday night. Goldstein asked the crowd, "Are you guys f----- up tonight? I'm not," TMZ.com reported Saturday.

Goldstein was going to star in an intervention-style reality show on MTV called "Gone Too Far," helping teens kick their drug addictions while talking about his own battles with substance abuse.

In a recent interview with the Associated Press, he talked about holding a crack pipe for the first time in years for the reality show.