On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:24:06PM +0100, PVC@PositiveVoid.co.uk wrote:
wasn't it also tied in to the michael k / luther blissett idiom
My mental instability? yes, very closely. Oh, you mean the suicide star? I think Luther committed suicide on Jan 1 2000, but as an act of reincarnation or rebirth, to abandon his identity, rather than as a staged publicity stunt to become a pop legend. But I wouldn't believe me if I were you.
----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Wakely <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk> To: <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [KLF] Would you...?
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:59:29AM -0600, Soren Harward wrote:
I can think of dozens of pop stars who should be contacted to see if they'd be willing to die live on stage for the sake of their stardom and their status as a pop legend. In fact, why bother contacting them first, let's just rush the stage and slaughter 'em.
Unfortunately, that's been done already. John Lennon, Selena, Rebecca Schaeffer, Gianni Versace, all murdered (technically off-stage, but one can argue that the life of a celeb is *always* on stage) by mentally unstable fans. To be unique, Bill and/or Jimmy would have to do what Colin Abrahal of GBH wanted to do and commit suicide on-stage.
Bill explained in 45 (and briefly in Bad Wisdom?) that he'd wanted to do this with an act he was promoting. I'm a bit vague on the details, but I think he wanted Julian Cope to top himself. This was in the days before Bill was a pop star himself, just a manager who wanted his act to be the biggest and best.
The point was, though, that it was a conscious act of suicide by the performer. So yes, I would lower it to simple murder by rushing the stage and slaughtering Britney, but Bill's original idea would have been on a whole different level. No, really.
When did Abrahal make that comment?
Oh, and who told you I'm mentally unstable? I asked everyone to keep it quiet.
-- "That invisible hand of Adam Smith's seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people." - George Carlin