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Okay, everyone's heard of those rock stars who lose the plot and do something completely weird. Equally you've heard of the prima donna singers who get hopelessly lost in their own self importance.
Well, here's the plan...
Let's collate as many "lost in showbiz" stories as possible and arrange them into an A to Z or a top 100, then either sell the list to Q magazine or e-mail it to the Daily mail who have a penchant for publishing such things...
I'll start the ball rolling:
KLF - In an event that stood on the very line which divides insanity and genius the K foundation burned £1 million. Yes that is right they set alight the profits from their number one single. The event was filmed and journo's were invited along to witness it, so it wasn't a complete fraud. And those mad mad people burned the money.
Amusingly this was not their first attempt to get rid of the money, the K leader, can't remember his name, had originally nailed the £1 million to a board and tried to have it exhibited at art galleries. Unfortunately none of the galleries would display his masterpiece for fear of it being dmaged or stolen... Following this initial set back the work of art was then advertised in art magazines as available to buy for £100,000... sounds like a sound invesment to me... but no one bought it. So they burnt it.
Other (shorter) examples include Mariah Carey who allegedly refused to walk down stairs(!!). Also Michael Jackson who famously floated a 90ft effigy of himself down the Thames, in direct contradiction of one of the ten commandments I might add.
Oh yeah, anything by Keith Moon can get in, I'm sure Goaty knows many a Keith Moon story.
I want to see some action so get posting!
Well, here's the plan...
Let's collate as many "lost in showbiz" stories as possible and arrange them into an A to Z or a top 100, then either sell the list to Q magazine or e-mail it to the Daily mail who have a penchant for publishing such things...
I'll start the ball rolling:
KLF - In an event that stood on the very line which divides insanity and genius the K foundation burned £1 million. Yes that is right they set alight the profits from their number one single. The event was filmed and journo's were invited along to witness it, so it wasn't a complete fraud. And those mad mad people burned the money.
Amusingly this was not their first attempt to get rid of the money, the K leader, can't remember his name, had originally nailed the £1 million to a board and tried to have it exhibited at art galleries. Unfortunately none of the galleries would display his masterpiece for fear of it being dmaged or stolen... Following this initial set back the work of art was then advertised in art magazines as available to buy for £100,000... sounds like a sound invesment to me... but no one bought it. So they burnt it.
Other (shorter) examples include Mariah Carey who allegedly refused to walk down stairs(!!). Also Michael Jackson who famously floated a 90ft effigy of himself down the Thames, in direct contradiction of one of the ten commandments I might add.
Oh yeah, anything by Keith Moon can get in, I'm sure Goaty knows many a Keith Moon story.
I want to see some action so get posting!
Ook, ook, one that I actually saw.
CDTV interviewed Slash at about 9/10 in the morning. Cat Deeley asked him about an incident he'd been involved in recently and he swore and said some unsuitable things. The real story is that he was dating a porn star who liked to "do it" in open places. They split up when she tried to perform an unspeakable act upon his body at an MTV party. The porn star went on to commit suicide and it was all pretty grim. PJ and Duncan were left speechless.
CDTV interviewed Slash at about 9/10 in the morning. Cat Deeley asked him about an incident he'd been involved in recently and he swore and said some unsuitable things. The real story is that he was dating a porn star who liked to "do it" in open places. They split up when she tried to perform an unspeakable act upon his body at an MTV party. The porn star went on to commit suicide and it was all pretty grim. PJ and Duncan were left speechless.
Tons of Super Furry Animal ones:
They once thought throwing the TV out of a hotel window was too cliched, so they threw everything else out instead.
They drove the blue tank they owned (that was fitted with decks and speakers, and was later sold to Don Henley of The Eagles) down Oxford street at 3 in the morning in front of the NME offices with music playing.
They had loud, blaring techno music playing in the green room for Jools Hollands Later... program.
One of them got so 'out his tree' that he deficated on the keyboardist's keyboard and then rang him to apologise.
They've got a clause in their contracts whereby the Police and the Armed Forces can't get buy their records cheaper (most bands have to).
One of them once took part in the Pepsi challenge and offered to say his tagline in Welsh for the cameras. The Pepsi people didn't know what he was saying, but apparently it was along the lines of "Pepsi tastes like wee-wee".
They appeared on GMTV's battle of the bands about 5 years ago wearing t-shirts with slogans like "Batter the polics with lard" and "Kids, say no to school".
I'm sure there's more - that's just a few.
They once thought throwing the TV out of a hotel window was too cliched, so they threw everything else out instead.
They drove the blue tank they owned (that was fitted with decks and speakers, and was later sold to Don Henley of The Eagles) down Oxford street at 3 in the morning in front of the NME offices with music playing.
They had loud, blaring techno music playing in the green room for Jools Hollands Later... program.
One of them got so 'out his tree' that he deficated on the keyboardist's keyboard and then rang him to apologise.
They've got a clause in their contracts whereby the Police and the Armed Forces can't get buy their records cheaper (most bands have to).
One of them once took part in the Pepsi challenge and offered to say his tagline in Welsh for the cameras. The Pepsi people didn't know what he was saying, but apparently it was along the lines of "Pepsi tastes like wee-wee".
They appeared on GMTV's battle of the bands about 5 years ago wearing t-shirts with slogans like "Batter the polics with lard" and "Kids, say no to school".
I'm sure there's more - that's just a few.
Okay, everyone's heard of those rock stars who lose the plot and do something completely weird. Equally you've heard of the prima donna singers who get hopelessly lost in their own self importance.
Well, here's the plan...
Let's collate as many "lost in showbiz" stories as possible and arrange them into an A to Z or a top 100, then either sell the list to Q magazine or e-mail it to the Daily mail who have a penchant for publishing such things...
I'll start the ball rolling:
KLF - In an event that stood on the very line which divides insanity and genius the K foundation burned £1 million. Yes that is right they set alight the profits from their number one single. The event was filmed and journo's were invited along to witness it, so it wasn't a complete fraud. And those mad mad people burned the money.
Amusingly this was not their first attempt to get rid of the money, the K leader, can't remember his name, had originally nailed the £1 million to a board and tried to have it exhibited at art galleries. Unfortunately none of the galleries would display his masterpiece for fear of it being dmaged or stolen... Following this initial set back the work of art was then advertised in art magazines as available to buy for £100,000... sounds like a sound invesment to me... but no one bought it. So they burnt it.
Other (shorter) examples include Mariah Carey who allegedly refused to walk down stairs(!!). Also Michael Jackson who famously floated a 90ft effigy of himself down the Thames, in direct contradiction of one of the ten commandments I might add.
Oh yeah, anything by Keith Moon can get in, I'm sure Goaty knows many a Keith Moon story.
I want to see some action so get posting!
Well, here's the plan...
Let's collate as many "lost in showbiz" stories as possible and arrange them into an A to Z or a top 100, then either sell the list to Q magazine or e-mail it to the Daily mail who have a penchant for publishing such things...
I'll start the ball rolling:
KLF - In an event that stood on the very line which divides insanity and genius the K foundation burned £1 million. Yes that is right they set alight the profits from their number one single. The event was filmed and journo's were invited along to witness it, so it wasn't a complete fraud. And those mad mad people burned the money.
Amusingly this was not their first attempt to get rid of the money, the K leader, can't remember his name, had originally nailed the £1 million to a board and tried to have it exhibited at art galleries. Unfortunately none of the galleries would display his masterpiece for fear of it being dmaged or stolen... Following this initial set back the work of art was then advertised in art magazines as available to buy for £100,000... sounds like a sound invesment to me... but no one bought it. So they burnt it.
Other (shorter) examples include Mariah Carey who allegedly refused to walk down stairs(!!). Also Michael Jackson who famously floated a 90ft effigy of himself down the Thames, in direct contradiction of one of the ten commandments I might add.
Oh yeah, anything by Keith Moon can get in, I'm sure Goaty knows many a Keith Moon story.
I want to see some action so get posting!