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Topic History of: RIP Liam Payne 31
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Green Man	All the new feeds I am getting are about Liam Payne, funny how they didn't care when he was alive but come out of the woodwork when the poor lad died. It sounds like Liam, didn't have good friends but sycophants and hangers-on.
Hamlet	I’m wondering why you turned down ‘Pop Idol’ JK. It was a fantastic opportunity and those shows are money for old rope as far as the judges go. It’s all formulaic and acting a role. There’s the bit where you ridicule the old/nerdy/freakish ones who can’t sing and then on comes some pretty boy/girl with a decent voice and a sad backstory (cue emotional music) that you gush over. Licence to print money for very little work. You’d have coined it in.
JK2006	No Robbie - under different names I had many hits including a few more as JK (Una Paloma Blanca in 1975). In fact a total of 40 million that I sang on. But yes, Rich, I was a teenager when I wrote and sang MOON but luckily had great honest mentors and was able to have time (being both in pop and at University) to make up my own mind whether to take drugs, nicotine or alcohol (I didn't). Plus my many friends in music and, later, in TV and journalism accepted those were not for me and were happy not to push me (with the possible exception of Mama Cass Elliot who considered it almost a Messianic cause to turn everybody on!).
robbiex	Rich wrote: JK2006 wrote: Yes Robbie agreed - one of the many reasons I never did drugs nor smoked was because I felt any negative results could emerge in later life. But there are many where they do remain successful or famous (Matthew Perry) who can live quite long. I know several who are my age or older (in their 80s) who are physically and medically fine but whose character and brains have become pickled by earlier abuse and have essentially become total cunts. Both genders - all types - some lovely human beings who are simply, in some respects, not quite so lovely anymore. You yourself JK were only just out of your teenage years when you had that first and big hit record in the summer of 1965, just twenty I believe, so how different did you feel once that had happened to you compared to before? Technically still a minor by 1965 standards when the age of the majority was still 21 until the end of the sixties, yet it always seems to me that younger people then had older heads on their shoulders. It was only a one-hit wonder. Great though that is, it can't compare to the global phonomonem that was one direction and the teen idol following that followed. I know that there were a few other hits a few years later under different names. I must admit that I had watched JK on Entertainment USA for several years before I even realised that there was any pop career years earlier. Information was hard to get hold of in those days.
Rich	JK2006 wrote: Yes Robbie agreed - one of the many reasons I never did drugs nor smoked was because I felt any negative results could emerge in later life. But there are many where they do remain successful or famous (Matthew Perry) who can live quite long. I know several who are my age or older (in their 80s) who are physically and medically fine but whose character and brains have become pickled by earlier abuse and have essentially become total cunts. Both genders - all types - some lovely human beings who are simply, in some respects, not quite so lovely anymore. You yourself JK were only just out of your teenage years when you had that first and big hit record in the summer of 1965, just twenty I believe, so how different did you feel once that had happened to you compared to before? Technically still a minor by 1965 standards when the age of the majority was still 21 until the end of the sixties, yet it always seems to me that younger people then had older heads on their shoulders.