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This guy must have interviewed hundreds of ex-pop stars for this. Some interesting life lessons for sure.
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Would like to give this a go. Remember reading about it when it came out last year and then promptly forgot about it (as I so often do)
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It’s good, a bit light maybe (each pop star only gets a few pages) but builds into an interesting observation of post-fame life
Can’t help thinking there’s a gap in the market, (or it may even exist) for a book about ex-footballers obviously before the PL era and what they got upto after retirement. Surely they didn’t all own pubs??! Micky Gynn - FA Cup winner in 87 with Cov became a postman.
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Weirdly this popped up on my feed earlier
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From the book it seems like musicians are different, after all they can still play and write songs into old age, it’s just that no-one is interested. But many end up with a creative itch they just can’t stop scratching.
Mad props though to the singer from Musical Youth who now trains people to work safely at height, and is happy as Larry.
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Neil Webb also became a postie. Richard Rufus got a 7 year stretch for a £15m pyramid scheme scam today.
I’d not even thought of the creative angle with musicians but that’s a good point - if you’re that type of person it doesn’t just wither away.
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Ouch 7 years… Frank McAvennie got into some dodgy shenanigans too I recall. Francis Lee - didn’t he make bog roll??!
Jay Rayner completes his snarky reviews challenge
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This week new ones by Rick Rubin & Bret E. Ellis… Looking forward.
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“Do you remember when he put the gun in your face and demanded you play Mr Fingers?”
“Ahh, yeah.”
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I find Parrott/Crooked Man super interesting. Allegedly hasn’t set foot in a club in years but makes music that lifts the roof off them.
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I was just going to ask if anyone had gone in on Rick Rubin yet, sounds fascinating
Some terribly sad parts, but the bit about John Lennon heckling Frankie Valli cracked me up…
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Various articles on the MF Doom/Egon drama. It’s really a rabbit hole and I think Egon is done, especially now that he is being viewed as an exploiter of the culture in many people’s eyes.
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I really don’t know much about Egon personally, but I’ve always been fascinated by the work he does. He’s always seemed like a preserver of culture - going out of his way to give recognition to otherwise forgotten musicians. And I’m sure he’s done right by them - making sure releases were properly licensed with people getting paid properly.
I love his writing and posts.
I’ve seen him refute some of the allegations when Kweli first made them. I wondered what Kweli’s motivations were. I’m not 100% convinced about him, although I was a big fan of his earlier work.
I’d like to know more about the rhyme book situation.
I’ve heard nothing more since the allegations last year.
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