Wednesday, August 11, 2004

THE HEART AILMENTS OF ROCK AND ROLL: Buried deep down in this article about The Kinks' Dave Davies having suffered a stroke, comes the news that Davies is just one of a number of musicians on the wrong side of 50 to have heart troubles of late:
On the same day Davies had his stroke, David Bowie (news), 57, canceled his European tour due to heart-related problems. Isley Brother Ron Isley, 63, also had a minor stroke last month while overseas. And in the past week, former Eagles bassist Randy Meisner, 58, and the Oak Ridge Boys' William Lee Golden, 65, have also suffered heart-related ailments in the last week.

In other music news, Esquire has named Outkast's Andre 3000 as the world's best dressed man, beating out such fashion plates as “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer, Prince Felipe of Spain, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom.

And Something Awful has a great list of the 10 Worst Rock Stars Ever, including Lenny Kravitz ("Lenny represents the pinnacle of VH1-approved lameness"), Steven Tyler ("The Rolling Stones may be old, but at least none of them look like Joan Rivers and openly lust after their own daughters"), Morrissey ("Take some Zoloft, Morrissey. Go to some dinner parties and talk about books or James Dean or whatever it is you care about...Buy a boat and a Hawaiian shirt. Go to the video store and rent “Die Hard.”), and, at No.1, the one-time American answer to Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie, Jobriath.


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