Had the old iPoo on random the other day and up popped Jeff Buckley. Hadn’t listened to his album in an age. It got me to thinking though, if you could bring back any rock star who died suddenly (Hendrix, Morrison, Trent D’Arby etc) which one would it be?
Or would be we better off leaving them dead so they couldn’t make late-80s-Bowie type stuff?
Damien Rice, just so I could kill him again.
Whaddya mean he’s not dead!?
Katy French
Could Phil Collins be brought back?
Wasnt Paul McCartney actually killed and replaced by the cunt we now see always looking like he is whistling? Anyway fuck that leave him dead!
What’s yellow, disgusting and lives on Beatles – Yoko Ono.
John Lennon, only to give him a talking to about his choice of wife, then I would have to kill him again to prevent him producing vomit-inducing music.
Did Scooter really die after taking 10 yips? Bring him back, he was a poet!
I’d bring up Dana
Kurt Cobain
Twenty; an abomination; you weren’t listed in this article yesterday from the observer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs
Bob
Johnny Cash; he’d be the only one who could write a good enough song about the whole experience.
Van Morrison is dead?!
Django
haha that’s easy, rick james! Seriously speaking, maybe the ramones, ray charles and elliot smith. I’ll decide finally when the time comes for it. Wouldnt bring back the people who were megaoverhypedpostdeath.
Mel from Mel and Kim.
Or Kim.
Whichever one died.
Or both of them if the one that didn’t die subsequently died from grief.
I used to love Jeff Buckley. Now I feel sorta embarrassed when I listen to him, like how you cringe at your younger self for being all dramatic or overly emotional.
I’d bring Elvis Presley back and ask him why he didn’t have the decency to wipe his arse and wash his hands before he popped his clogs!
Phil Lynnott
All this talk of necromancy is a bit worrying…is this the “New Ireland” we can can all look forward to. Not done with yer drugs and violence you want to start experimenting in the dark arts. I for one will be locking up my pets for fear of them being ritually slaughtered to try and give Pat Kenny a personality.
If you read this blog backwards does it tell you to go and worship Satan and kill someone?
Jimi Hendrix. That is all.
Being dead preserves your coolness. Like all this crap about James Dean being cool. Fuck sake if Cliff Richard died 60 years ago or whenever he had a tool(sic)we would probably drooning on about how he defined a generation.
drooning?
John Denver – Just so I could ask, when that airplane engine went right through him, if it filled up his senses.
Fuck off Super
Bob Marley. The majority of others who’ve been mentioned here were spent forces when they died. Better off without them coming back and ruining their reputation.
Pattherat, Scooter had at least 3 members last time I looked. Each one of them is only braindead, so no, you can’t bring him back.
Fuck you Roland
Kurt Cobain is dead
He shot himself in the head
He picked up his gun
Thought his head was his bum
‘Suppose piles don’t hurt once you’re dead…
Fuck you indeed Mr Biker Grove.
Anyway wouldnt a more thought inspiring question be what “musicians” deserve to die?
Joe Dolan.
END OF DEBATE
What about “What commenters on this blog deserve a kick in the hole?”
haha
Johnny5, will you keep an eye on that Pattherat cunt for me? I have to go out for a while.
I might.
Actually, no. fuck off.
Did Damien Dempsey not die in the Civil War or the Rising or the Famine.
Or is it like the car sticker says “Irish Folk Singers never die we just wish they would”
bumper sticker, yeah? jaysus, that’s gas altogether
House bound for a week with a broken foot, got bored with TV, and now I’m bored with this fucking Internet and some of the childish shit on it. So doctors orders or no doctors orders I’m off to Cheltenham for four days racing.
Two horses for you lot to back,
Punjabi, in the big race tommorow..about 40/1, 500ew.
Tiger Cry, on thursday..about 18/1, 1000ew,
and 500ew double. Fill your boots.
Ah there you are Tim you nonce with your fantasies again – 500 lids each way! 1000 e/w!!! Broken foot hahahahaha!
I know I’m gonna get slack for this, but the hippie inside me says Jerry Garcia. Course there’s always the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash. That sucked. And of course maybe Freddie Mercury, Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Frank Zappa… jesus is there any wonder music is shit these days?
Ok I can’t pick just one.
Elvis
Jimmi Hendrix.
The most potential, the most amazing talent, he still hasn’t been equalled.
And young enough to not be a Rod Stewart, regurgitating any old crap just to make a buck!
Alex Harvey!!!!!
Ya Bas.
Good Christ, I’m going to Cheltenham too. Please dont bum me, Tim.
I’ll the irish fella in his mid-20′s
go way johnny, you’d love a good buming
Jam Master Jay
any popstar who is over fifty should be dead. They seem to be doing these fucking tours with the exorborant ticket prices, and they are just a shower of wankers playing to people who really should just fucking grow up.
whats the big tip for Cheltenham??
Joe Strummer
see comment 37. Have they a chance or is Gay Tim bullshiting?
John Bonham and Bon Scott and Phil Lynott
and jimi hendrix and billie holiday
I wish Neil Young would hurry up and fucking die.
jimi and lennon are the obvious choices..but when you think about it..both of them were getting a bit crappy at the time of their demise..lennons last two albums were even gooier than anything paul mccartney ever did..and hendrix was going all freeform and jazzy..so maybe the memories are better..
Come on you young cunts, nobody remember Buddy Holly ?
Oooooooh Eeeeee Oooooh I look just like something something…? ? ?
I’m terrible for remembering lyrics.
they need to stay dead
if they come back to life we will probably realise that they wern’t as good as people would have them believe
but if i could bring back anyone, it’d be layne staley
just thought of this one…the one and only “luke kelly”
Ian Curtis could have been all kinds of brilliant but c’est la vie. C’est la morte is more accurate though.
Have you thought of coming up with a wee book button that people could put on their sidebars? Product placement and all that. Like the cover picture and a link to amazon or something.
The one from Milli Vanilli who offed himself.
Okay not exactly a rock star, but he was cool all the same…
I don’t mean in your side bar, I mean in the sidebars of other blogs. Does such a button exist already?
Keith Moon. I met him in Cardiff. He was pissed as a newt. He shook my hand and gave me a stick of Cardiff rock. I didn’t wash it (the hand, that is) for a week..
And while we’re at it John Coltrane and JS Bach.
Elvis can stay where he is.
I don’t mean in your side bar, I mean in the sidebars of other blogs. Does such a button exist already?
It doesn’t, Sam. And I wouldn’t presume to make one. If someone wants to make one for their own blog then that’s cool but I can’t expect people to desecrate their own websites with an ad for my book.
Dead people won’t come back. Accept that.
Especially not to play music for anybody.
Van has a point – see http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/mhojcwojgbid/
Give new musicians a chance.
Then shoot whoever wrote/produced/sang that Ronny Drew vomit thing.
Gram Parsons – not really for the music; after the events of his death, the return party might be interesting.
http://ebni.com/byrds/memgrp6.html
Hey Twenty, have you came across this Newton Faulkner guy yet? Looks like he’s straight out of your book… which I’m currently enjoying…
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Jesus Christ, he looks hideous. I think he was the ginger of the week on FMC’s blog the other week.
Glad you’re enjoying the book
But I’m too stupid.
problemchildbride, you’re not stupid. I’m stupid.
Thank you for reminding me that I have Control on me hard drive. I’m gonna roll a big one and watch it now.
Ian Curtis & Bob Marley.
And the 7th drummer from Spinal Tap.
Rory Gallagher, if only so he could play the concert I had tickets to that got cancelled cos he died.
Why do white guys think they can get away with dreads? Never a good look boys.
Another vote for Kurt Cobain, though I’m not sure he’d want to come back.
Also I think it’d be interesting to see where Roy Orbison would fit into the modern music scene.
Interesting. Imagine if Michael Jackson had died 20 years ago – we’d think he was GOD instead of the saddo he is today. And if Madonna had died, we’d think of her as fluffy nothingness like Cyndi Lauper, instead of the GODDESS she is today…
GODDESS
That’s not how you spell ‘wretched old harpy’
Come on, only her hands and knees are wretched and old – the rest is the best money can buy…
(http://perezhilton.com/2008-03-02-return-of-the-killer-hands)
How it would be if she didn’t have a few bob and her time wasn’t her own: http://perezhilton.com/2008-02-29-on-turning-fifty