Or Maybe She Just Pretended It Happened
Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde seems like the type of woman you wouldn’t want to mess with, the kind who could handle anything.
But even Hynde seems to be a bit taken aback about how she got her first kiss, as she detailed in Details magazine: “I was taken onstage at a Jackie Wilson concert. They used to drag girls on stage out of the audience. Yeah, real cool, but at the time it kind of bummed me out, because I was white and I felt like maybe I shouldn’t have been there. There weren’t any other white people in the audience, just me and my girlfriend.
“And I was shy. I’d never been kissed. I was horrified. Everyone else was screaming to be picked, and I was trying to hide, but my white skin was a dead giveaway. I had no camouflage, so the guy dragged me up there and Jackie Wilson kissed me, by God.”
Loose talk
Sean Lennon, on father John Lennon’s murder (in Newsweek magazine): “Yeah, that’s a biggie … I mean, I grew up afraid somebody was going to shoot my mom or me. But in New York everybody’s afraid of getting shot.”
Oh, so that’s what they mean by Jerry-atric
Jerry Lewis turns 70 today.
But she never thought too much of John’s mates
Speaking of Sean Lennon, mom Yoko Ono donated $2,500 to a broke Brooklyn high school chess team so it could participate in tournaments. A spokesman said Ono plays chess every day, adding: “She likes to say that chess is the one thing that can keep kids off drugs for sure. If you do drugs, you can’t play, because you can’t keep your concentration.”
Serves her right for trying to be a torch singer
Shades of Tom Jones: Women are not only throwing their underwear onstage at openly gay chanteuse k.d. lang these days, but also matchbooks - with their phone numbers written inside. Teases Lang: “What are you trying to do, burn me?”
Just think of them as the goddaughters of soul
James Brown has started scouting sites in his native Augusta, Ga., for a museum to showcase his career highlights. “It would be a great thing because there’s a need for it,” Brown said, adding: “We’re also going to have girls dancing in the windows.”
And we thought it was about her archenemies
Nancy Sinatra, of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin”’ fame, has donated a pair of her old white, spike-heeled, knee-high go-go boots to the Hard Rock Cafe in Beverly Hills. “It became almost an anthem for women,” Sinatra said of her hit. “I don’t know (why) because it was always tongue-in-cheek. It was always meant to be fun.”
He’s a happening sort of guy, bless his sole , And speaking of shoes, among the 100 pairs of trendy Doc Marten military-style boots ordered by the Vatican recently for Pope John Paul II’s Swiss Guards was one pair of white size 9’s - which just happens to be the pontiff’s own size and color.
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