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5515

Surely not the Thin White Duke!?!?

Oh wait…

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5516

Rod’s been doing a bit of community service, mostly on behalf of his Ferraris:

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5517

I’m still surprised Bowie has never been cancelled for his underage antics…

And John Peel.

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5518

Also, all this shit:

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I dunno, I think in Bowie’s case he was drawn to the controversial aesthetics which he considered a bit subversive rather than the ideology and probably talked a lot of shit in interviews when he was off his head. In Clapton’s case I think he was always a bit of an arsehole (confirmed more recently during COVID) although again, I think he was completely wasted during the 70s which I guess is why he can’t remember much now. None of that gives either of them a pass for shitty behaviour but it should be factored in when retro-judging different landscapes decades ago

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5520

This is quite an interesting read on the matter

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5521

Yeah Peel is held up as some kind of sacred cow.

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5523

Top read

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5524

So it’s okay to be into hitler and racial purity, as long as you’re wasted? Maybe the whole 3rd reich thing was just a national Oktoberfest bender gone wrong.

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5525

Who said it was ok? Not me.

I just made the point that in the 70s people like Bowie or punks in swastikas sought to cause outrage in different ways and push things as far as they could. In Bowie’s case he was out of his mind and later repented. A lot of it was nihilism basically, but most of them grew up.

Which bit of that is untrue?

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5526

What did he do during Covid?

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5527

Cocaine like us all…:grin:

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5528

Kneecap.

Shite.

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5529

You’re not far wrong. Insane book, all true.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/blitzed/norman-ohler/shaun-whiteside/9780141983165?sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=626889&awc=3787_1732048704_599e483935e87977fa7d8900d71f641e&utm_source=626889&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=adstrong

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5530

Not trying to be pedantic, but I would be cautious with Ohler as a source. Richard Evans (among others) demolished this book when it came out.

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Yeah, plenty of scholars on the subject were critical of a lot of the book.

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5532

Interesting… I enjoyed the book … and you sort of ‘want’ it to be true… but it’s not a version of events I’d heard before. Basically that Blitzreig == meth binge

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5533

Don’t get how London can just casually discard 900 years of heritage but there it is…

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Wouldn’t happen in France.