There are plenty of books by embittered old rock stars and sorry has-beens. But in an industry where backbiting and cheap shots are a pitiful, if entertaining, by-product of lost opportunity and thwarted ambition, few books are quite so scathing as The Boy Looked At Johnny, written by NME journalists Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons. Published in 1978 and subtitled The Obituary Of Rock And Roll, the book is a venomous rant against the failed promise of punk. Its 79 pages poured bile on almost anyone and anything that dared crawl from CBGB, the 100 Club or The Roxy. The young authors said The Clash’s Mick Jones merely “chanted stray battle-cries like a harassed housewife”, and the Sex Pistols-affiliated Bromley contingent were just “a posse of unrepentant poseurs” committed to attaining fame despite their paucity of talent.American bands fared little better. It was an unremitting stream of invective, marked by its no-prisone
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Jools Holland FAILS to show up for GMB interview with Vic Reeves Aisha Nozari For Mailonline
Jools Holland failed to show up to his scheduled Good Morning Britain interview on Thursday.
Jools, 63, was set to appear on the morning programme alongside Vic Reeves, who is currently going by his real name, Jim Moir, to promote their podcast, Jools And Jim s Joyride - a travel-themed podcast that sees the TV icons interview fellow stars - however only Vic, 62, appeared via videolink, much to the surprise of presenters Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid.
Addressing Jools no-show, Ben, 46, quipped to Vic, who he referred to as Jim: It s lovely to see you this morning Jim, thanks for actually bothering to get up to talk to us.
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“One, there was a two-storey entry and if you were in the kitchen, the sound was so loud it was as if someone dropped a stack of books from the second-floor landing, and there was never anything there.
“The second thing, I sensed it in our bedroom, and I would actually talk to it and say, ‘I’m trying to go to sleep, can you please leave now’…
“The third thing, it didn’t like it when we travelled and it would set the alarm off, it didn’t want to be left alone,” Wilson, who is also a singer, said.
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