Musicians that weren't cut out for fame.

[Summer is almost here = )]

John idolized Elvis, but was always more of a poet than Paul if you ask me (though paul was quite poetic). Paul was always more of the business man. Paul loved the limelight, touring, the fans, and all that came with it. John hated it. You can hear it in his voice and in his humor in interviews. The only thing that really kept the band together was Brian Epstein. his death was the beginning of the end.

Yoko and New York were good for john. in the end, I think he figured out how to handle it all and i think he was happy (being a "housewife" and stuff). but living with all the crazed, chaotic fame that came with the beatles was just too much for him. Look at pictures from his time in the late sixties and early seventies and compare it to pictures of him in the late seventies. it's a shame, once his life started getting good, it was taken from him.

and, Neapolitan, great call with Syd Barrett! He totally slipped my mind! (i'd also throw out michael jackson, townes van zandt, and maybe elliott smith. though his girlfriend totally killed him).

[proud walker]

Ahhhhhhhhh.

/retarded moment.

[Wyatts mama]

Just one of his more recognised pictures I think, the gig itself was a stand out gig.. the picture's on canvases and stuff like that. Surprised you haven't seen it

[toure]

infamous isn't the right word. drop the 'in'. just famous.

[..!!kRiiSsY!!..]

Really? His guitar work on the first Stone Roses album is phenomenal.

[jadziakl]

Billie Holiday, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Skip Spence, Peter Green, Jim Morrison etc etc

[//Luseroo.♥$]

i think Nick Drake should be the next most obvious choice after Cobain.

on the MC Hammer side of the fence... is Kanye West actually cut out for fame?

[Amers]

Surprised no one has mentioned Marc Bolan yet.

[Patoyo]

Famous ones? Ones that really stand out? Kurt and Hendrix are the immediate stand out ones..



As are them.

[PaTH oF RagE]

Yeah I don't know how to feel about that. My instinct tells me that they were fine with it until a certain point, and once you can't go anywhere without being "beloved" I think your world view is altered. I mean, its not natural to walk through the streets and have everyone walk up to you and say they love you.

i think part of me would just like to experience the world sometimes and not be the world.

Axl anyway. the same thing may have happened to sly, but ultimatly the drugs took him.