He had a publicist. That is funny.
Dropping Like Flies
also technically a member of the sex pistols
Biggs recorded vocals on two songs for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Julien Temple's film about the Sex Pistols. The basic tracks for "No One is Innocent" (aka "The Biggest Blow (A Punk Prayer)"/"Cosh The Driver") and "Belsen Was a Gas" were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols' final performance, with overdubs added in an English studio at a later date. "No One is Innocent" was released as a single in the UK on 30 June 1978 and reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. The sleeve showed a British actor dressed as Nazi leader Martin Bormann playing bass with the group.
Biggs recorded vocals on two songs for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Julien Temple's film about the Sex Pistols. The basic tracks for "No One is Innocent" (aka "The Biggest Blow (A Punk Prayer)"/"Cosh The Driver") and "Belsen Was a Gas" were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols' final performance, with overdubs added in an English studio at a later date. "No One is Innocent" was released as a single in the UK on 30 June 1978 and reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. The sleeve showed a British actor dressed as Nazi leader Martin Bormann playing bass with the group.
Al Goldstein
Al Goldstein, the scabrous publisher whose Screw magazine pushed hard-core pornography into the cultural mainstream, died on Thursday at a nursing home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. He was 77. Mr. Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.
The manifesto in Screw?s debut issue in 1968 was succinct. ?We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ,? it read. ?We will apologize for nothing. We will uncover the entire world of sex. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex.?
?He clearly coarsened American sensibilities,? Alan M. Dershowitz, the civil liberties advocate and Mr. Goldstein?s sometime lawyer, said in 2004. ?Hefner did it with taste,? Mr. Dershowitz added, referring to Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy, which predated Screw by 15 years. ?Goldstein?s contribution is to be utterly tasteless.?
Al Goldstein, the scabrous publisher whose Screw magazine pushed hard-core pornography into the cultural mainstream, died on Thursday at a nursing home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. He was 77. Mr. Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.
The manifesto in Screw?s debut issue in 1968 was succinct. ?We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ,? it read. ?We will apologize for nothing. We will uncover the entire world of sex. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex.?
?He clearly coarsened American sensibilities,? Alan M. Dershowitz, the civil liberties advocate and Mr. Goldstein?s sometime lawyer, said in 2004. ?Hefner did it with taste,? Mr. Dershowitz added, referring to Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy, which predated Screw by 15 years. ?Goldstein?s contribution is to be utterly tasteless.?
I thought about posting that this morning, but couldn't find a suitable picture to attach to abide by the boards new rules…
vansmack wrote:
I thought about posting that this morning, but couldn't find a suitable picture to attach to abide by the boards new rules…
There are new rules? Oh you mean the rules about the sentence and picture of people who died.
personally i think a photo isn't required… an obit or a link is what's really needed (unless a person's appearance is really relevant to his/her importance, which is arguable in the case of mr. goldstein)
sweetcell wrote:
personally i think a photo isn't required… an obit or a link is what's really needed (unless a person's appearance is really relevant to his/her importance, which is arguable in the case of mr. goldstein)
I don't like links. Put a sentence or two about the person. I don't want to waste my time clicking on a link that it turns out I don't care about the person. If it is someone like Peter O'toole you probably dont' need a sentence but it is always possible someone never heard of him.. Also their age is helpful.
I'm a big fan of googling the person's name if I've never heard of them, ya lazy fucks.
Yada wrote:
I'm a big fan of googling the person's name if I've never heard of them, ya lazy fucks.
The lazy person is the person who just types in a name.
If I can't make a subtle porn joke without being questioned…then this place really has gone to hell.
vansmack wrote:
If I can't make a subtle porn joke without being questioned…then this place really has gone to hell.
i'm guilty of having gone to hell, then… i missed that.
I got it, Smackie.
I liked the picture
Seth wrote:
I liked the picture
Can't argue with that. If only my office had that much authenticity. I actually thought the story part detracted from the photo.
Yusef Lateef
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the world?s most popular assault rifle, the AK-47, a simple and durable weapon of war used by tens of millions in about 100 countries, has died. He was 94.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the world?s most popular assault rifle, the AK-47, a simple and durable weapon of war used by tens of millions in about 100 countries, has died. He was 94.
Benjamin Curtis (School of Seven Bells/Secret Machines)
so sad :/
Really liked Secret Machines. Dude was only 35 - really, really sad.
horrible news indeed. both So7B and SM have put out some great music.
there's another band that i need to add to my "i fucked up and didn't see them while i should have" list.
there's another band that i need to add to my "i fucked up and didn't see them while i should have" list.
Vas wrote:
Benjamin Curtis (School of Seven Bells/Secret Machines)
so sad :/
I saw him in Secret Machines and School of Seven Bells but didn't know same guy was in both bands.