When She Took A Walk, Out Came His Mild Side
Veteran rocker Lou Reed apparently wasn’t so sweet to Joanna Coles, New York bureau chief for the British newspaper The Guardian.
“I’ve never come across someone so ridiculous and arrogant,” Coles told the New York Post. “Obviously he’s used to behaving terribly and everybody taking it.”
As they walked to a cafe, Coles asked Reed what he was working on. “Are you starting this interview? Because you’ve got exactly 30 minutes,” he snapped.
Reed later lashed out at Coles for asking if he had children (“How dare you ask me such a personal question!”) and whether he had been paid to do a BBC video production. At that point, she walked out.
“He shouted after me pathetically, ‘Oh please, can’t we be friends?”’ Coles said. “It must have been terribly embarrassing.”
Loose talk
Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, on how he keeps on rocking at age 61: “I smoke. I eat a lot of red meat, have loads of sugar and loads of salt.”
And you know it will be a sweet little 71
Chuck Berry turns 71 today.
But it’s still nothing compared to Marv Albert’s
Current Stone Keith Richards has no retirement plans. “No one would be asking about retiring if we were old black guys,” he told the New York Daily News. “Nobody said anything like that to Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington or Count Basie … Besides, the chicks still dig me. The lingerie collection this year is my biggest ever.”
Couldn’t they have painted his throat black?
Mick Jagger’s longevity, however, is another question. The singer’s sore throat forced the Stones to cancel their scheduled appearance this week on the debut of MTV’s “Live From the 10 Spot” concert program, with fellow fossil David Bowie stepping in to pinch-hit.
All those candles gave him his second wind
Elton John has decided to write his memoirs. “In 1997, I celebrated my 50th birthday and a 30-year creative partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin,” he said. “These and other milestones, professional and personal in nature, lead me to think that the time has finally come.”
Did he mean the composition, or the composer?
Paul McCartney was called back to the stage six times after Tuesday’s Royal Albert Hall premiere of his symphonic piece, “Standing Stone” (as opposed to Rolling Stone?), but The London Times critic called it “a sad monument … tired … middle-aged.”
That’s what you call giving someone tit for tat
After George Harrison grumbled that the Beatles-imitating band Oasis won’t be remembered in 30 years, lead singer Liam Gallagher fired back on “MTV News”: “I still love George Harrison as a songwriter in the Beatles, but as a person, I think he’s a … nipple,” Gallagher said, using the British slang for idiot. “And if I ever meet him, I’ll tell him. And if you’re watching, NIP-PLE!”
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