Greatest Male Solo Artist - Eric Clapton vs Little Richard

[Bjornebye]

15 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

 

Did he,  though? I think the phrase "pics or GTFO" is apt here. He did spend a bit of time being curious about Nazi iconography, though.

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/six-70s-myths-about-david-bowie-761066

 

Basically his coke habit, like Clapton's alcoholism, turned him into a cunt until he cleaned himself up.

 

Hmm I always thought he did. I'm sure I saw a picture of him stepping off a plane in an SS uniform. Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway this is a decent read

 

https://medium.com/@fabulatext/golden-years-david-bowie-and-the-third-reich-50ec736193c2

 

 

[cloggypop]

Bowie is sound but that Thin White Duke was a right twat. 

[Captain Howdy]

Punk was awash with Nazi memorabilia, I remember Derek Jarman who made the Jubilee film was uneasy about it all. Insofar as Bowie goes he was definitely right wing during his thin white duke phase albeit he has long since renounced it. Never seen him in SS garb though.

[Captain Howdy]

Just to put the cat amongst the pigeons thin white duke was Bowie at his peak. He was without peer at that stage.

[Lee909]

From NME 

 

He was a Nazi

The evidence: Around the ‘intense’ recording sessions of 1975’s ‘Station To Station’ (see ‘He Was A Rampant Coke-Head’), Bowie was delving into historical reading on Hitler and the Third Reich, collecting Nazi paraphernalia and describing his latest person The Thin White Duke as “a very Aryan, fascist type”. He also began making some rather dodgy press comments warning of imminent fascist uprising in the UK. His theoretical/theatrical concept of his words coming from his Thin White Duke character wasn’t helped by – d’oh! – being detained at an Eastern European border for transporting Nazi memorabilia. Finally he was snapped at Victoria Station on the eve of the UK leg of the Isolar Tour apparently raising a Nazi salute. He claimed to the press that he’d just been stitched up while waving at a cloud and then ran off to bunker down in, of all places, Berlin. These days, of course, all of this would make him a shoo-in for Pope.

 

Likelihood of accuracy: 37 per cent – Bowie later sang in ‘China Girl’ of “visions of swastikas in my head/Plans for everyone”, and it seems likely that his disorientated ‘Station to Station’ state may well have led him to consider some pretty unsavoury political philosophies. “My interest in [the Nazis],” he told NME in 1993, “was the fact they supposedly came to England before the war to find the Holy Grail at Glastonbury… the idea that it was about putting Jews in concentration camps and the complete oppression of different races completely evaded my extraordinary fucked-up nature at that particular time.

[Bjornebye]

Liam Gallagher told a funny story about falling asleep at a party at Marilyn Mansons house in LA. He called a taxi and as he left found loads of nazi badges in his pockets. Said he was running down the road at 7am shitting himself, throwing swastikas into peoples front gardens. 

 

[Paul]

Just accidentally deleted someone else’s post there instead of my own. Don’t even know whose it was - they must’ve literally just posted it. Apologies. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, Paul said:

Just accidentally deleted someone else’s post there instead of my own. Don’t even know whose it was - they must’ve literally just posted it. Apologies. 

Mine!

 

That really confused me.

[Bruce Spanner]

18 hours ago, cloggypop said:

Unfortunately, Frank Sidebottom didn't make the cut. 

Chris Sievey wasn’t above raising his hand to his first wife.

 

Mental illness and dependency will do that to you.

[Paul]

2 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Mine!

 

That really confused me.

Sorry about that mate. We must’ve posted within seconds of each other; hence my fuck up. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, Paul said:

Sorry about that mate. We must’ve posted within seconds of each other; hence my fuck up. 

Becoming more and more like Germany in the 30’s around here...

[Paul]

8 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Becoming more and more like Germany in the 30’s around here...

I just follow Usher’s lead. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, Paul said:

I just follow Usher’s lead. 

Ah, the Himmler defence, he’s trained you well! 

[Bjornebye]

Clapton joins the first round casualty list 

[TheHowieLama]

Prince Harry gets his party garb from Bowie.

 

 

Allegedly.

[Numero Veinticinco]

25 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Clapton joins the first round casualty list 

It’s actually crazy. 

[TheHowieLama]

 

 

The Queen holding court.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 24/10/2020 at 18:08, Bjornebye said:

Hmm I always thought he did. I'm sure I saw a picture of him stepping off a plane in an SS uniform. Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway this is a decent read

 

https://medium.com/@fabulatext/golden-years-david-bowie-and-the-third-reich-50ec736193c2

 

 

Some impressive stretching to try to make a point in that article. 

 

 

No. No we couldn't. 

[Lee909]

[Remmie]

Just seen this tie and the result. Absolutely stunned

[Numero Veinticinco]

9 minutes ago, Remmie said:

Just seen this tie and the result. Absolutely stunned

Yeah, crazy. 

[johnsusername]

On 24/10/2020 at 18:10, cloggypop said:

Bowie is sound but that Thin White Duke was a right twat. 

Station to Station is an incredible album though. 

 

[cochyn]

Little Richard.

 

True fact: whenever arguing with Daily Mail-reading 'friends' I'd always mispronounce Richard Littlejohn, Little Richardjohn. Without fail. 

 

I'm not sure which of them would be the most offended if they knew of my faux pas.