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DiamondDog7
Cool stuff! Brian talks high of Lennon/McCartney, Taj Mahal, Otis Redding
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CaptainCorella
His accent seems incredibly dated to my (English) ears.
I'd be interested in hearing what other Brits here (Deltics? JLOWE?) think.
Did we all sound like Prince Phillip in 1968?
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Green Lady
Brian came from a middle-class family in Cheltenham, which was then a famously "posh" area, and he was a well educated boy, so his accent isn't surprising - and unlike Mick he didn't feel the need to dirty it down to improve his street credibility. He's being nice and polite to the interviewer so that probably makes him sound more cut-glass.
No, we didn't all sound like Prince Philip - Bill is a true Cockney, whereas Charlie and Ronnie have West London voices like me and my family. But if you wanted to sound respectable, you needed to take your accent upmarket a bit for things like job interviews.
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Big Al
Bill is from Penge, south-east London. A ‘true cockney’ is supposedly born in earshot of Bow Bells; which is east London, obviously.
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Big Al
Bill is from Penge, south-east London. A ‘true cockney’ is supposedly born in earshot of Bow Bells; which is east London, obviously.
Agree. He doesn't sound like a cockney to me. Not in the Eric Bristow/Chas & Dave sense
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emotionalbarbecue
Jagger&Richards made the songs and Bill&Charlie built the path for them. But despite so every time I hear Brian (regadless his behaviour towards other people) he seems the most brilliant of the band. By far. Other level.
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Milan
Keith Moon was the master in disguising his real accent. Anyone ever heard an interview with him where he does NOT pretend to sound posh?
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paulspendel
Newly released unique pictures of Brian's family at home in 1964
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paulspendel
You’d be surprised if you didn’t have such a limited view. There’s a niche outthere of very wealthy collectioneurs. Like the chap who buys Brian’s guitars. They don’t post on boards, but silently buy stuff, take it home and just look at it. Like Charlie looks at his old timers he can’t drive. The ones you call idiots.
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paulspendel
You’d be surprised if you didn’t have such a limited view. There’s a niche outthere of very wealthy collectioneurs. Like the chap who buys Brian’s guitars. They don’t post on boards, but silently buy stuff, take it home and just look at it. Like Charlie looks at his old timers he can’t drive. The ones you call idiots.
I call them that for a reason. They are idiots. And my view is Panoramic, including the niche of idiots.
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paulspendel
So the UK collector who buys Brian’s guitars is an idiot for doing so? One of the persons you called an idiot basically delivered 50% of the items for that Stones museum road show. All idiots, yes. Just like William Perks from Peckham who still buys stuff back. And Mr Jagger who bought the tapes back of the first recordings of Little Boy Blue. All idiots too. Wonder what you will say when you learn who is currently selling photos of Brian lying next to the pool after the 1969 incident.
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paulspendel
So the UK collector who buys Brian’s guitars is an idiot for doing so? One of the persons you called an idiot basically delivered 50% of the items for that Stones museum road show. All idiots, yes. Just like William Perks from Peckham who still buys stuff back. And Mr Jagger who bought the tapes back of the first recordings of Little Boy Blue. All idiots too. Wonder what you will say when you learn who is currently selling photos of Brian lying next to the pool after the 1969 incident.
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paulspendel
Wonder what you will say when you learn who is currently selling photos of Brian lying next to the pool after the 1969 incident.