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Stoneage
Sure, I get your point, stonehearted. However I think there is a distinction between jazz and pop and rock. Jazz is more timeless than pop and rock in a way.
Most jazz musicians gets better with age - even crooners like Bennet (although his voice is awfully thin these days).
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That is really nice to read seitan, thanks. I think Mick is a very good person at heart, as are all the Rolling Stones. Mick must have had some knowledge of how awful things had become for Sid Vicious. Reading Lydon's comments, I was struck again by how fortunate it is that Keith was able to quit heroin and how terrible his addiction must have been for all of them.
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That is really nice to read seitan, thanks. I think Mick is a very good person at heart, as are all the Rolling Stones. Mick must have had some knowledge of how awful things had become for Sid Vicious. Reading Lydon's comments, I was struck again by how fortunate it is that Keith was able to quit heroin and how terrible his addiction must have been for all of them.
LOL. So giving money to a guy who probably killed his girlfriend makes on a good person? I could think of a lot better causes if you are a good person.
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frankotero
I always like hearing what Johnny has to say. All in all he's a stand up guy in my opinion. Not rotten at all, ha-ha.
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That is really nice to read seitan, thanks. I think Mick is a very good person at heart, as are all the Rolling Stones. Mick must have had some knowledge of how awful things had become for Sid Vicious. Reading Lydon's comments, I was struck again by how fortunate it is that Keith was able to quit heroin and how terrible his addiction must have been for all of them.
LOL. So giving money to a guy who probably killed his girlfriend makes on a good person? I could think of a lot better causes if you are a good person.
I can think of better causes too than Sid, but helping someone is never a bad thing...
The new documentary makes it rather clear that Sid was innocent..
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latebloomer
That is really nice to read seitan, thanks. I think Mick is a very good person at heart, as are all the Rolling Stones. Mick must have had some knowledge of how awful things had become for Sid Vicious. Reading Lydon's comments, I was struck again by how fortunate it is that Keith was able to quit heroin and how terrible his addiction must have been for all of them.
LOL. So giving money to a guy who probably killed his girlfriend makes on a good person? I could think of a lot better causes if you are a good person.
I can think of better causes too than Sid, but helping someone is never a bad thing...
The new documentary makes it rather clear that Sid was innocent..
You can find documentarys that claim to prove anything. How many are there out there that Brian Jones was murdered.
I think if the evidence showed that Sid was innocent the police would catch onto it.
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I'd read Mick paid Sid's legal bills years ago in a Mick cover story in VANITY FAIR magazine (mentioned in passing, just making the point Mick isn't as tight-fisted as has been said).
I posted the below here before (on a Sid Vicious thread), but I'll post it again:
A special Rolling Stones edition of UNCUT MAGAZINE had a bunch of old Rolling Stones interviews, and the following is from a 1979 interview with keith. KEITH: "Sid - yeah. He's been a silly boy. Just because he woke up with a knife in his hands, he thinks he done it. I have a feeling he didn't. It was probably some very sharp New York dealer."
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I'd read Mick paid Sid's legal bills years ago in a Mick cover story in VANITY FAIR magazine (mentioned in passing, just making the point Mick isn't as tight-fisted as has been said).
I posted the below here before (on a Sid Vicious thread), but I'll post it again:
A special Rolling Stones edition of UNCUT MAGAZINE had a bunch of old Rolling Stones interviews, and the following is from a 1979 interview with keith. KEITH: "Sid - yeah. He's been a silly boy. Just because he woke up with a knife in his hands, he thinks he done it. I have a feeling he didn't. It was probably some very sharp New York dealer."
The name of Spungen's killer was a dealer who eventually became an actor and comedian under the name of "Rockets Redglare", most notable for his role in the 1988 movie Talk Radio, in which he plays the killer of Eric Bogosian's character Barry Champlain.
In the days after the killing, Redglare was boasting to friends in clubs about how he killed Nancy and pinned it on Sid. He was also flashing loads of cash that was stained with blood. Redglare even admitted to the killing in an interview, which I'll post once I look up.
What apparently happened was this: Redglare, who was bringing in a stash of heroin from Brooklyn, appeared at their room at the Chelsea Hotel at about 4 a.m. Spungen answered the door and let him in. Sid was knocked out in a chair across the room. When Spungen left the room to go into the bathroom at one point, Redglare happened to notice a large pile of cash in one of the dresser drawers. This was the royalty payment from Sid's rendition of the My Way single, some $20,000 or so which the couple kept in a dresser drawer in their room and which they were using for an extended drug holiday.
Redglare decided to help himself to the cash, but was caught red-handed when Nancy emerged from the bathroom. Nancy tried to stop him from stealing the money, there was a struggle, and then Redglare pulled a knife and stabbed her. Then he pocketed the money, and in a moment of drug dealer survival savvy took the knife and placed it in Sid's hand so that his prints would be on the knife and Sid would think that he had done it himself. "I left them in that tableaux...." Redglare said in the above-mentioned interview.
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stonehearted
Redglare was also a drug dealer who would have had reason to have been there where a crime of opportunism may have taken place.
Anyway, you don't know for sure whether or not he had anything to do with Nancy's death any more than I would. And I'm not alone in believing that he was there at the scene of the crime. Considering Redglare's "occupation" at the time and the habits of Sid and Nancy, this makes Redglare the prime suspect, since no one else has been named or suspected in all the years since.
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Big Al
Why are some still referring to him as 'Johnny Rotten'? All publications and interviewers refer to him as 'John Lydon' It's not 1977 any more.