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Hepworth's Law...
Posted by Stan Halen on 10 February 2009 - 3:05am.
...states that every movie star wants to be a rock star.
Evidence aplenty, then, at last night's BAFTA awards. A colleague who attended said you could feel the collective gasp drawing air from the room when Jagger showed up.
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What then....
.....do rock stars want to be?
Gandhi, usually
Rock Stars want to be
football payers.
Certainly true for Phil Lynott, Frankie Miller and Rod Stewart.
Robert Plant
Met him years ago and said he'd have given it all up to have played for the Wolves,which in fact he did at Derek Dougan's testimonial. Well for the celebrites against the TISWAS All Stars
I wonder if he'd have given the same answer...
if you'd have asked him the question as he came offstage at the LA Forum in 1977 just before heading off to the Riot House to do all that messy rock 'n' roll stuff.
"Hey Robert, the Wolves are a man short for the Burnley game tomorrow night. Can you make it? It'll mean missing the rest of the week's gigs here. Oh and it's cold and wet in Wolverhampton"
Twonk
Kept us all waiting at a gig in Manchester for bloody hours because he went to see Bolton v Wolves up the road. Wolves lost.
And yes. The roadies DID keep going on stage, adjusting the mikes and saying 1-2, 1-2 for bloody hours as well.
Given Jaggers many references to Sirs in his speech,
a knighthood. Seeing as he has achieved that, I dare say he would be happy enough with a seat in the Lords. Remember where you heard it first. I can see it coming, can't you? He'd love it!
I'm with Keef
on this one: "a paltry honour". But then didn't Marianne F describe Jagger as an inveterate social climber?
hasn't every one
called Jagger an inveterate social climber?
Probably so,
but she was:
a) in a long-term relationship with him, and thus very well-placed to judge;
and b) (for what it's worth) rather posh herself. (And with a relative in the dictionary, too.)
I've got lots of relatives in the dictionary
dad, mum, brother, wife.......
Very good, Chris
(if I had an emoticon for "I'm not being ironic here" I'd just have made use of it). And let's not forget 'relative'.....
I'd love it too
On the strength of the BAFTAs speech alone.
Having just watched the clip of Jagger at the BAFTAS...
on You Tube, I am struck yet again by his propensity for changing his voice depending upon the social situation he finds himself in. Of course it was Posh Mick at the awards show... not a "Oilroight Mick Jaaagger 'ere, ows it gahn down wiv youse lot?" to be heard. It's strange, he acts far more effectively in real life than he ever did in the films he's made...
Changing voice
Most people (writes a linguist) do this to some extent, Patrick, to help them fit in, to put others at ease, etc. This unconscious process is called accommodation.
However Sir Michael Paltry-Honour's case is so extreme one suspects it's a conscious affectation, as with his singing voice. (Viz the previously undetectable speech impediment that surfaces on 'Shine a Light': "...make evewy song you sing be your favouwite tune...")
Does anyone know why this happens?
By which I mean creative types striving to try other disciplines. Musicians wanting to act, actors wanting to, er, 'musish'.
Why? It is so, SO common.
I'm a copywriter, I don't also have this uncontrollable urge to be a butcher.