Musicians need to have led difficult lives so they have enough experiences to put into their music. Broken homes. Violent relationships. Poverty. Bad drug trips. John Bon Jovi was probably beaten up as a child and if you'd known him then, you'd have wanted to beat him up too. Worse, many of them gave their lives for their art. Just think of a few. Jimi Hendrix. Dead. Sid Vicious. Dead. Robert Palmer. Dead. Daniel Bedingfield. Dead, or at least injured. Robbie Williams. Dead. The list could go on, and indeed it does. Mozart. Dead. Beethoven. Deaf AND dead. Johan Sebastian Bach. Dead, or very ill - I have to check.
Okay, you get my point, I don't need to whip this ferret to death.
A lot of suffering has gone into a piece of music and then one of us goes into a shop, says "Cheers", lays down a small sum of money and before you know it, it's playing in the background while we make love to a beautiful woman. That's what has happened to me once anyway, apart from the bit about the beautiful woman.
Do I need to be famous? Me? No way, lay down those beats. Man.
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Didn't you Brits (and I'm including you as an ex-Brit, though not "ex" in the Pythonesque sense)pass a law banning the whipping of ferrets or was it simply "no more fretting about whippets?"
I think you'll find that Beethoven died because he was deaf - he didn't hear the horse and cart as he was crossing the road.
You seem obsessed with your age. Now I know it's none of my business, but I'm 171* and still listen to Westlife. I go to all their gigs and everything.
* Clearly untrue...
Look! Forget the music for a moment! Let's just clear up the ferret thing. A law was passed in 1782 making it illegal to whip ferrets in the UK but not the Isles of Scilly or the Channel Islands where they still hold onto their constitutional right to whip ferrets on the first Sunday of the month. This law was however tested by Marshbank v The Crown in Leeds March 16th 1809. It was determined that a ferret could be whipped providing the act was consensual - some ferrets it would seem, rather enjoy it and will happily be whipped for money, though I can't really imagine why. However the case collapsed when it transpired the defendant (Clive Marshbank) had actually been whipping a stoat - he just thought it was a ferret but he was colour blind and anyway - stupid. OK - have flogged that horse to death now. Oh, now flogging horses......I think this blog is a great idea - not much else to do in Cornwall these days especially in the middle of the night. Will write again soon about music
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