Who was the last Rock n roll star?

threespires said:
They had Depeche Mode's first top of the pops appearance on TV last night, singing new life on TV.

If you'd said to someone at the time that other bands will consider this lot too dangerous to go on tour with and btw that dorky looking fella singing will end up fronting them at massive US stadiums as one of the UKs most successful music exports but he'll also have to be brought back to life in the back of an ambulance due to his excesses...but he'll sort himself out and they'll carry on making new music and attracting new listeners instead of doing nostalgia tours like their peers oh and they'll eventually get inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame...you'd probably have been met with some scepticism!
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Saw them at Canterbury university ( early 80's ) in a half empty hall and about 100 people. Still a good show !
 
Last great Rock and Roll star?

Lemmy. Drugs, heavy metal, gorgeous women and JD by the bucket load.

If anyone says Liam Gallagher then they need shooting. He's a pastiche of a rock and roll star. Totally irrelevant. You don't go around telling everyone how hard you drink. How many drugs you do. You just get on and live your life.

I drank with Lemmy in the bar around the corner from his house. He was, of course, the perfect gentleman, no shouting, no histrionics, just him, a cowboy hat, some JD and a bartop fruit machine for company. We spent 4 hours getting me drunk. Left on a handshake. He carried on. I went to my hotel to sleep. For hours.

He lived his life the way he wanted to. He had no need to shout out loud how much of a rock star he was because he was a rock star. All his life.
 
give it to gordon said:
Saw them at Canterbury university ( early 80's ) in a half empty hall and about 100 people. Still a good show !
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Saw then in a shit nightclub in 1981 in Rayleigh, Essex. No idea who they were until a few months later they were on TOTP. A lightbulb moment ensued...hang on, I remember this...



Dave has died from speedball, slit his wrists, survived cancer and a minor on stage heart attack. The trouble with all this mid life debauchery is a later life of sobriety and absolutely a no rock star life. He'd die if he did.

The Devotional Tour they did at their peak of drug/ alcohol abuse was proclaimed by Q magazine as... "the most debauched rock tour ever." Primal Scream were one of the supports on this tour. Well known for their own huge drug intake they left the tour because it all got a bit too much for them. Around this time no-one could keep pace.
 
BimboBob said:
Last great Rock and Roll star?

Lemmy. Drugs, heavy metal, gorgeous women and JD by the bucket load.

If anyone says Liam Gallagher then they need shooting. He's a pastiche of a rock and roll star. Totally irrelevant. You don't go around telling everyone how hard you drink. How many drugs you do. You just get on and live your life.

I drank with Lemmy in the bar around the corner from his house. He was, of course, the perfect gentleman, no shouting, no histrionics, just him, a cowboy hat, some JD and a bartop fruit machine for company. We spent 4 hours getting me drunk. Left on a handshake. He carried on. I went to my hotel to sleep. For hours.

He lived his life the way he wanted to. He had no need to shout out loud how much of a rock star he was because he was a rock star. All his life.
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When he died there was a guy on the radio in a "Did you ever meet Lemmy?" slot.

He met him by chance in the hotel bar in the afternoon before the gig.
"Alright Lemmy, can I buy you a drink?"
"JD"
"Single or double?"
"Bottle"
Twenty minutes later bottle drunk and Lemmy off to do sound check.
 
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