Jagging Up With Amy Winehouse
TABLOID Headline Of The Day: “The Rolling Stones warn Amy Winehouse to stay off drugs.”
After Keith Richards’ views, Sir Mick Jagger, 64, who was jailed in 1967 for possessing drugs, opines: “When we were experimenting, little was known about the effects. In our time, there were no rehab centres. Anyway, I didn’t know about them.”
So not quite as the headline promises.
Indeed, many may wonder if Winehouse should stay on the mind-altering drugs, or at last pass them on to other budding performers who want to be as famous and successful as she and the Rolling Stones.
Perhaps the UK’s performing arts industry could invest in a small poppy holding in Afghanistan, a laboratory in rural Essex or a cannabis farm in Hackney and drop product in the wannabes’ water?
The one proviso would be that all non-talent stays off the drugs, lest no work get done and the resulting productions resemble nothing more than a very long drone…
February 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
“When we were experimenting, little was known about the effects.” That is the silliest bunch of nonsense I have heard in a while. The effects of drugs have been known for a very long time. And if they didn’t know, they could check the obituaries: Brian Jones (Original member of the Rolling Stones, hello?), Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, etc. It is nice that the ‘elder statesmen of music’ want to share their hard-earned experience and knowledge but don’t say that you didn’t know what you were doing or what could be the effects.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
You know you’re really screwed up when Keith starts telling you to quit.
Or maybe she doesn’t?
February 18th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Dem Krazy Stones Boys still causing ructions!