The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and by Jeremy Simmonds
By Jeremy Simmonds
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The bible of music’s deceased idols—Jeff Buckley, Sid Vicious, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac, Elvis—this is the last word checklist of all those that arrived, rocked, and looked at over the past 40-odd years of speedy autos, deepest jets, demanding medicinal drugs, and reckless residing. The truths at the back of hundreds of thousands of attention-grabbing stories—such as how blood brother Holly basically determined to fly so he’d have time to complete his laundry—are coupled with perennial questions, together with Which band boasts the main useless individuals? and Who had the brilliant inspiration of fixing a gentle bulb whereas status within the shower?, in addition to a couple of stories of lesser-known rock tragedies. up-to-date to incorporate all of the rock deaths because the earlier edition—including Ike Turner, Dan Fogelberg, Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Eartha Kitt, Michael Jackson, Clarence Clemons, Amy Winehouse, and lots of, many more—this new version has been comprehensively revised all through. An crucial reference filled with worthy and lifeless details, with hundreds of thousands of images of the nice, the undesirable, and the foolish, this assortment is bound to rock the realm of trivialities buffs and diehards alike.
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Thank you very much. ’” Silence. For the first time since the Stranglers took the stage, the venue fell as quiet as the grave. The song is called “Tits”? Tits. When Sparks wrote a song called “Tits” (and dropped it into the cleavage of their last album, Indiscreet), it was kinda funny, kinda wry, kinda avant-garde, because that’s what Sparks were. But when the Stranglers came up with the exact same title, people were still trying to figure out just how self-righteously offended they wanted to be when the first (and only) verse swung in, and it was so utterly, absolutely, delightfully foul that who could resist joining in?
You’ve got the look, but you interpret in your own way.
A tiny knot of Stranglers fans was gathered around the stage, and everything I’d heard about them, too, was true—the guys all built like a row of brick shithouses, their girlfriends as ugly as a hatful of arseholes. They were defiant in their enjoyment of the Stranglers as well, although you felt as though they had toned down their legendary belligerence. For, as vociferous as the fan club might have been, the rest of the crowd was twice as furious, and it hated the Stranglers with a passion. , there goes the first flying beer mug.