And as many as you like about whom you agonised, and those whom you believe had no more to contribute.
By it's destroying them before finally killing them you mean, tass?
I'm not talking about the damaging effects of drug-use, but the influence on creativity.
Hicks should have taken some if it helps so much, then, because he clearly needed the input.
He did.
I thought that was obvious. His drug taking has made him think he's a lot funnier than he really is.
I wholly agree with his point about government weaponry
He took the drugs to get an insight into them (he didn't start young) and then stopped. His big battle was with cigarettes.
I hope he won. I don't know if his search for insight was brave or stupid.
'I'm not talking about the damaging effects of drug-use, but the influence on creativity.'
Hallucinogens, yep, up to a point. Dope - ok, might concede that one. Coke, not so much. Smack - not at all. Booze - only up to the point where encephalopathy kicks in.
I'll leave it to the younger generation to make the case for horse tranquilizers.
He died of cancer aged 33 or 34. Pancreatic, IIRC (don't think it had anything to do with the fags).
Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth. Bill Hicks.
He died before Facebook, obviously.
Add Bowie to the list. I'm sorry not to have the chance to hear the music of his old age. Sure he would have surprised us.
Frank Zappa
Marvin Gaye
Amy Winehouse
Billie Holiday (44 years old?)
Darren 'Wiz' Brown, Phil Lynott, Warren Zevon, Kirsty MacColl, Martin Gilks and Cliff Burton.
Which would also make one hell of a supergroup.
Ian Dury. Joe Strummer.
I'd like to have gone back in time to kick Mark Chapman in the goolies very hard, take his copy of Catcher in the Rye away and tell him to grow the fuck up. And I'm not even a Lennon fan - I just don't like whiny twerps like Chapman.
Hear, hear.
"I just shot John Lennon."
"Not grammatically accurate", commented Derek Taylor.
Debussy
Ravel
Bartok
Mozart
Robert Johnson
Amy Winehouse