Hot Charity wrote:
luckyman wrote:
I don't particularly like John Mellor* and I think his music is totally phoney and that he was a total fake ....but that is a thread in it's self .
*son of a diplomat and a private boarder who later called himself 'Joe Strummer' and tried to pass himself off as a plebe .
Well, even though he was the son of a diplomat his parents were never well off and the reason he was a private boarder was that his parents were living in other countries during most of his childhood.
A complex character*, you're kinda on the money and right off it at the same time.
*A lot like Lindsay Anderson, who I guess you must be a fan off. From a very upper middle class family, but one of the keys figures in the British New Wave/Kitchen Sink Drama period of film.
And then there's George Orwell...but that's a whole other thread to
Yeah It's quite a good comparison(almost).Anderson was from a colonial well off background and was educated at Cheltenham College , and yes he spoke with a plummy accent .Nothing against that , but unlike Mellor he did not try to pass himself as working class , deny his upbringing, put on a fake cockney (Guy Ritchie) accent or change his name to 'Eddie Marsden' or 'Joe Strummer'. Eric Blair(Orwell) was from a similar colonial upbringing (middle class) , educated at Eton etc - he never denied who he was .
Mellor faked it (inverse snob) , put on a phoney accent and wrote jaw dropping awful songs - 'Black man gotta lot a problems
But they don't mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick' - yeah keep with the yoof , and keep it real diplomat's son , live in a squat etc The ironic thing is that his phoney act has fooled a lot of people and his very words are quoted as great works of philosophy .An A1 phoney to the very end .
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 804232.ece