No Rock And Roll Fun

VILLAINY: Blender magazine have drawn up a list of the top 25 villains in rock. Presumably Mark Chapman is at number one due to this role in providing Yoko Ono with a constant platform and forcing the name change of Liverpool Speke Airport; Ike Turner is at number 2; Hell's Angels come in at three; Marvin Gaye's dad at four and cocaine is in at five - two places ahead of Tipper Gore. Obviously, this is all a bit of a summer filler-flam, but we'd be curious as to how, say, cocaine is higher up the charts than Car Crashes or plane crashes, which have killed more rock stars than drugs; and Tipper Gore did little more than make herself look silly - it's probably giving too much kudos to the PMRC to suggest they struck fear into the heart of rock to such an extent. And, of course, the damage the PMRC did is nothing compared to the ruin wrought by the RIAA and its members. But you saw that coming, didn't you?
Simon Cowell will be disappointed at coming so low [NY Post] - staff of Probe Records in Liverpool mysteriously absent