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Topic History of: The pot calling the kettle black
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Green Man |
Politically we are world's apart but I could listen to your stories all day every day.
It's very hard to help out any addict if they can't help themselves,it's interesting he saw potential in a very Steve Strange. He was another troubled man and lost absolutely everything in about ten year's and died young. The problem with Steve Strange it's very hard to write follow up hits. Paul Jones spoke about this on a podcast. |
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hedda |
I can't even remember how I came into Kits orbit..I think from attending the same nightclub.
At his best he was highly amusing and great company but that was so often fueled by drugs.
I was involved in some projects with Kit and lunched at separate times with Daltrey and Townshend and both were very complimentary about Kit bur said his drug use made the collaboration unworkable.
I knew Kit before his downfall when he still lived in Knighstbridge and threw great parties.
I spent 3 days in his Venice palazzo which was rather gloomy as there had been a fire caused by Kit falling asleep with a cigarette, exactly what eventually happened in his Knighstbridge home.
What saved that long weekend was his next door neighbor Peggy Guggenheim who was very fond of Kit and invited us over for dinner each night.She told me she wanted to marry Kit but was unsure she could afford him.
After he became a Ward of The Court everything became a nightmare.
I arranged for Kit to sell a series of stories about The Who etc to a tabloid for then £25K no mean sum.
The Official Solicitor got wind & told the tabloid the money must go to them so they could dole it out to Kit with no weekly increase. It crushed him.
Likewise I and another tried to set up a new record label. Kit's own label brilliantly called Track Records which he set up to sign Jimi Hendrix was defunct with legal hassles.
We could walk into any big record company with Kit and doors would fly open. We had plans to sign up a few people from the famous Blitz Club as Kit correctly said the place was full of star potentials like Boy George and Spandau Ballet who Kit reckoned he could turn into big stars.
He even reckoned he make the Blitz host Steve Strange into a recording star as Strange eventually became.
But he would always miss important meetings while off on benders. So disappointing.
Kit always joked he would die young like his father Constant Lambert did at age 46 and he did, at age 46.
# One of the early 1930s society scandals was that Constant had a long love affair with a teenage Margot Fonteyn.
## One story I loved that Kit used to tell. He was in fierce but friendly competition with the Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham who had bought a new Rolls Royce complete with a telephone.
Kit finally also got to buy his own Rolls Royce and had a telephone installed. He then rang up Oldham in his Roller and said he was calling from his new car on the car phone.
Oldham responded, "hold on Kit, I've got another call coming from my other car phone, can I put you on hold"
Kit sort of relished stories where he was the butt of a joke.
In Kit's previous life he was also an Amazon Jungle explorer and got accused of murder when his companion was killed by Amazon natives. A campaign by the Daily Express basically saved him. A film was made about his 3rd companion but I can't remember the name.
He discovered The Who, then called The High Notes in a pub while making a film about rock music. |
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Green Man |
hedda wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Kit Lambert is an interesting figure I love The Who. I think it was idea to have Tommy made in to show and movie. I have watched Tommy several times.
The Who have been trying to wash Lambert out of Who history to some degree. I think he ripped them off. I couldn't finish Pete and Roger autobiographies. Christ, they are very boring musicians, despite being part of rock history. One of the best autobiographies I have read was Adam Faith.
Both Towshend and Daltrey have acknowledged Lambert's contribution to The Who's success and Townshend says it was Lambert who taught him about other styles of music and most especially, turned him on to opera and hence, the rock opera as in Tommy.
I knew Lambert well and he often crashed at my place. He was nightmarish at times as his drug use was excessive.
The Who really sacked him as he was becoming incompetent due to drug use and irregularities over finances.
Kit made a a shocking mistake by allowing himself to be made a Ward Of The Court to avoid a heroin drug charge as he feared going to jail.
He spent the next 7 years having his money doled out to him by the Official Solicitor at such a low rate he could only afford to live in the cheapest hotels. His life really was miserable but his heroin use didn't help.
When he died after falling down some stairs at his mother's house, his estate was estimated at about 500K pounds from Who royalties.
He was treated so shabbily by the Official Solicitor who sold of his Venice palazzo which he loved along with his Knightsbridge house.
Thank you for the info Hedda, I knew Kit was a drug addict but didn't know it was H, I thought it be the usual stuff like Purple Hearts, hash and a bit of coke. H, is very destructive, even to the nearest and dearest.
It's debatable when people say The Who were ripped off, 500k does seem small even in those days for management fees. I was expecting another zero. Keith Moon died with about 10 million in the bank.
How did you know Kit Lambert or The Who in general? I did know a guy who got to see The Who backstage, he left very disappointed, never met your heroes, came to mind. It's been many years since I saw a celebrity, if I did I would probably just nod, I have never been an autograph hunter, most celebrities want to be left alone. I knew that when I saw Bradley Walsh at a charity golf tournament, when I did bar work. |
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hedda |
Green Man wrote:
Kit Lambert is an interesting figure I love The Who. I think it was idea to have Tommy made in to show and movie. I have watched Tommy several times.
The Who have been trying to wash Lambert out of Who history to some degree. I think he ripped them off. I couldn't finish Pete and Roger autobiographies. Christ, they are very boring musicians, despite being part of rock history. One of the best autobiographies I have read was Adam Faith.
Both Towshend and Daltrey have acknowledged Lambert's contribution to The Who's success and Townshend says it was Lambert who taught him about other styles of music and most especially, turned him on to opera and hence, the rock opera as in Tommy.
I knew Lambert well and he often crashed at my place. He was nightmarish at times as his drug use was excessive.
The Who really sacked him as he was becoming incompetent due to drug use and irregularities over finances.
Kit made a a shocking mistake by allowing himself to be made a Ward Of The Court to avoid a heroin drug charge as he feared going to jail.
He spent the next 7 years having his money doled out to him by the Official Solicitor at such a low rate he could only afford to live in the cheapest hotels. His life really was miserable but his heroin use didn't help.
When he died after falling down some stairs at his mother's house, his estate was estimated at about 500K pounds from Who royalties.
He was treated so shabbily by the Official Solicitor who sold of his Venice palazzo which he loved along with his Knightsbridge house. |
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Green Man |
Kit Lambert is an interesting figure I love The Who. I think it was idea to have Tommy made in to show and movie. I have watched Tommy several times.
The Who have been trying to wash Lambert out of Who history to some degree. I think he ripped them off. I couldn't finish Pete and Roger autobiographies. Christ, they are very boring musicians, despite being part of rock history. One of the best autobiographies I have read was Adam Faith. |
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