February 28th – There are lots of reasons to get upset with
the stars in the music industry and lots of ways to advertise your unhappiness
with them. You could stand at the very front of the stage wearing a ‘T’ shirt
of a rival band, you could carry a placard at their concert with a pithy
critique of their last album, something like, er…“Your last album had all the
musical appeal of a donkey farting through a
tissue-wrapped hair comb.” You could buy one of their albums and set fire to it
outside the venue before urinating on it to put it out. You could wait for
their record to be played on the radio and turn it off in a grand gesture of
funk. You could spread rumours, like, er… “Darkness are just Barbara Streisand
on speed”. So having got an idea of the veritable dictionary of choices and
seeing how this thing works, how would you advertise your displeasure at a Ray
Charles concert?
Well, in 1977 an audience member
decided that, as he didn't like either the performer (in which case, why go?)
or the songs he was performing (did he think he was going to a Peter, Paul and
Mary concert or something?) that he would register his disappointment by
climbing up on stage and trying to strangle the blind Mr. Charles with a rope…! I’m gonna
leave it there; say no more; just re read that last bit, work out the various
permutations in it and then call me; we’ll talk…
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