rockstar #1

[mydrugbuddy]

Olly Murs. Jeff Brazier.

who the fuck are they ? Dunno why im asking i dont want to know, i dont care who they are. Z listers and the daily fail are the 2 things i get on my high horse about.

David Bowie. (as a nominee, not a z lister, clearly)

 

[Ben So Furry]

Good call with Bowie and I can't believe I didn't think of Elton John. Doh.

 

[Albion]

Johnny Cash had a very good innings. I think he deserves a lot of credit for dying an old man.

 

[swampdragon]

Bobby Gillespie is an advert for taking drugs and looking better than before he started taking them.

All of Primal Scream, but particularly Throb.

Definitely. Apparently this new album is the first one they've done sober, and I think it shows. (Though it does have some nice spangly psychedelic parts.)

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Definitely. Apparently this new album is the first one they've done sober, and I think it shows. (Though it does have some nice spangly psychedelic parts.)

"Ooh-la-la"

Yes it does doesn't it. 8)

Gig was still good last night, still on BBC Radio Player if you missed it.

 

[Ben So Furry]

Yeah nice one SHM. I'll give that a listen. Still haven't watched that BBC doco about David Bowie yet. So much to watch/listen to and so little time... and so it goes on...

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Johnny Cash had a very good innings. I think he deserves a lot of credit for dying an old man.

For dying an old man, and still producing great records. Like American IV (i presume he meant 4 not intraveneous) an album of cover versions.

What character and a lived through a fuckton does his voice carry. His version of "Hurt" is the example everyone will know. He also did a great version of the Beatles "In My Life". His agedness enhances these songs and gives them more meaning and depth than the originals.

Can one of the mods set up a poll with the top ten nominees ?

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

George Clinton.

"I've done crack every day since 1982. Crack never killed anyone. Name me five people who died from crack. You can't can you?"

George Clinton will be 70 in July.

 

[Ben So Furry]

Hahaha great quote SHM. That bloke fucking rocks.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Peter Perret of The Only Ones. A lifelong heroin addict AFAIK. He has totally lost his voice and looked to be at deaths door when i saw him last on Later with Jools Holland.

Also Boy George. His voice used to be so rich and smooth, like on Karma Chameleon and Do you really want to hurt me, but he cant sing for shit anymore. What a shame.

Even George Michael, what a shambles he has become. All lived out in the public eye. He fell out of his own car on the motorway a couple of weeks ago.

There's also a black lady soul singer aged 70, cant remember her name or if shes still alive sorry, but she has also been a heroin addict for life, maybe someone here can name her.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Good call on Pete Only One MBD.

Hahaha great quote SHM. That bloke fucking rocks.

Here's another.

Journalist "How did you keep it real George?"

GC (points at pink caddi emblazoned with gold being driven by (nameless) hip hop 'star') "See that? You buy those things, you distance yourself from real. We spent that money on drugs."

 

[Ismene]

Maybe John Cooper Clarke not that he was a rock star mind you. Can't think of anyone else. I think all the Nikki Sixx/Slash types etc exaggerate slightly about their drug use.

Bear in mind the human riff quit heroin in 1978 - I think he only started in 1968 so he was only on it for 10 years. Not a massively long time. And he was getting very good quality heroin - good quality heroin is one of the safest, least toxic drugs known to man so there wasn't any chance of him dying anyway.

Johnny Cash's guitarist said in his book that "johnny never quit drugs, he took drugs every single day he was alive until he was on deathbed".

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Maybe John Cooper Clarke not that he was a rock star mind you. ".

Definitely JCC. Recently did a festival near me (a poetry festival) and some wag put a huge picture of him to accompany the write up in the (extremely small town small-minded) local rag. The local rag that usually has drug busts involving 0.8g of soapbar on the front page. Made my day.

 

[Ismene]

err ... only just, like.

But marma, where does having problems with your liver when you're 72 put you amongst the hardest living men staying up way past their bedtime stakes? If he'd been 44 when his liver went like Rory Gallagher then perhaps but 72? That's half a glass of a sherry a week isn't it?

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Maybe John Cooper Clarke not that he was a rock star mind you.

Some of his recordings had a punk rock/alternative backing track to them. He would talk over the music, Mark E Smith style. I particularly remember one line about someones tits being 'the colour of potaters". His accent on the way he pronounced potatoes made it even more memorable.

My favourite is chicken town. Think he does that with or without music. On the spoken version he reads it quick as hell, and makes the chorus of fuckin late, fuckin wait into the rhythym and sound of a train. Fuckin Very fuckin clever.

the fucking cops are fucking keen
to fucking keep it fucking clean

the fucking chief's a fucking swine

who fucking draws a fucking line

at fucking fun and fucking games

the fucking kids he fucking blames

are nowehere to be fucking found

anywhere in chicken town

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the fucking scene is fucking sad

the fucking news is fucking bad

the fucking weed is fucking turf

the fucking speed is fucking surf

the fucking folks are fucking daft

don't make me fucking laugh

it fucking hurts to look around

everywhere in chicken town

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the fucking train is fucking late

you fucking wait you fucking wait

you're fucking lost and fucking found

stuck in fucking chicken town

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the fucking view is fucking vile

for fucking miles and fucking miles

the fucking babies fucking cry

the fucking flowers fucking die

the fucking food is fucking muck

the fucking drains are fucking fucked

the colour scheme is fucking brown

everywhere in chicken town

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the fucking pubs are fucking dull

the fucking clubs are fucking full

of fucking girls and fucking guys

with fucking murder in their eyes

a fucking bloke is fucking stabbed

waiting for a fucking cab

you fucking stay at fucking home

the fucking neighbors fucking moan

keep the fucking racket down

this is fucking chicken town

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the fucking train is fucking late

you fucking wait you fucking wait

you're fucking lost and fucking found

stuck in fucking chicken town

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the fucking pies are fucking old

the fucking chips are fucking cold

the fucking beer is fucking flat

the fucking flats have fucking rats

the fucking clocks are fucking wrong

the fucking days are fucking long

it fucking gets you fucking down

evidently chicken town


Genius. I also rate very highly Things can only get worse, nurse.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

There's a video by some (great) Indy band on YouTube that starts and ends with JCC doing chicken town in a shopping centre. I've still got "I married a monster from Outer Space" on 7". That's got a great backing soundtrack.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Mark E Smith for services to alcohol and amphetamines.

Hugh Cornwell from the Stranglers, unrepentant and convicted junkie, now 63. Was bust not that many years ago.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Mark E Smith for services to alcohol and amphetamines.

Hugh Cornwell from the Stranglers, unrepentant and convicted junkie, now 63. Was bust not that many years ago.

Mark E Smith for services to alcohol and amphetamines and the plain old cigarette. He is never to be seen without a ciggie on the go.

Guess he must have trouble during live gigs with the anti smoking inside laws. The star of the show wouldnt be thrown out for smoking, surely.

Hugh Cornwell always looked very well and healthy. Strange how some people's appearance becomes fucked up (Peter Perret) whilst others dont at all.

 

[Pagey]

points for anyone who knows the name of that junkie author who was spotted on the underground writing notes with a syringe of his own blood

*bows*

I can think of a BL'er who would totally do that :D

I was going to say both John Bonham & Keith Moon were famous for having bowls full of cocaine between their legs during their shows and just grabbing handfuls of it and smearing it all across their noses and mouths (charming image) but then again they died, sooo...
all my other choices have already been mentioned. Ozzy, Steven Tyler and Keith Richards take the top spots for me though.

 

[Ismene]

Tragically the JCC musical version of Chickentown replaced "fuckin" with "bloody". What a mistake that was.