‘Only sick music makes money today’

epub or mobi, with thanks to the original sharer

Many rock musicians prided themselves on their anti-Establishment credentials, but by the time I was sitting down to chat with Mick in Cheyne Walk there had been something of a coming together between the fringes of the rock world and the British upper class. Through these social interactions the musicians became much more open to accepting the fact that not all upper-class people were necessarily stupid and unpleasant, and the upper-class people slowly got round to thinking that musicians were not all depraved and foolish … In the legal presentations we had concentrated on the fact that rich people tend to buy ten packets of Cornflakes for their kitchen cupboard in one go, and could then buy more as was needed, but you would never say that they were dealing in Cornflakes. This was the same thing: a rich man had bought a lot of heroin for his personal use because he thought the price was good ... ‘Meaningless cacophony. Overgrown children pandering to the worst emotions one can have, playing what they thought was music, and all I could think of was some barbaric ritual. Awful.’