--- Charles Jannuzi
<jannuzi at edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Re: Respects to Stuart Adamson
>
> >>Arrangements are being made with Sir Richard
> Branson for Virgin
> >>Airlines to fly Stuart's body back to his native
> Dunfermline for a
> >>private family-only funeral. Both media and public
> are asked to >>respect
> this.
>
> Peter K. <peterk at enteract.com> comments:
>
> >Isn't Branson a money-grubbing capitalist tycoon?
>
> I guess he is, but at least he appears to have a
> sense of humour. I wasn't
> paying respects to Richard Branson, so the turn of
> this thread is bizarre to
> say the least, even for LBO Talk--but I'm glad you
> hang on every word I post
> waiting for a chance to say something Peter (or in
> the case of some, is that
> for the bugs to fly out of their assholes, or
> something?).
>
> BTW, after Stuart and his first group the Skids
> signed with Branson's Virgin
> label, they did a song titled 'Working for the
> Yankee Dollar', but the
> chorus also went 'Working for the Virgin Dollar'.
> Actually the hippies at
> Virgin, the chief one being Branson, made huge money
> off sales of Brian
> Oldfield (the guy with the tubular bells on the
> Exorcist soundtrack) and the
> totally different Sex Pistols (since A&M and EMI
> dropped them), but in the
> case of the latter it was not from sales in the US
> (at least not at first,
> since the Sex Pistols didn't collect a US platinum
> record for 'Never Mind
> the Bollocks' until something like 15 years after it
> was released). As the
> late, great and much missed Joey Ramone said about
> the cultural conservatism
> of the US, "America played it safe, America always
> plays it safe."
>
> Charles Jannuzi
>
>
>
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