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I love nothing more than rock n roll anecdotes. So I decided to start a thread with my all time favourites. To kick it off, perhaps the genre leader - Factory Records send heroin addicts Happy Monday to Barbados to record an album, away from the heroin dealers of Manchester...
This is of course only half the story. Shaun was given a 6 week supply of methadone to get him through the trip. He dropped that at the airport and smashed all over the floor, losing the lot. Given half a million quid to spend recording the album, Shaun spent it all on crack.
He then stole the studio's sofa to get money for more crack, then the studio's mixing desk, for more crack. On returning home, he held the master tapes at gun point, until Factory paid him extra cash to take them, which they did, to find out it was an hour of a drum machine.
Next up - How crazy did things get at Apple Corps when the Beatles decided they wanted to set up a company for young creative types? Well ...
Another great summation of how Yoko Ono was completely nuts, and how much money the Beatles were blowing in the post Beatles days of Apple Corps. Here, someone from The Museum of Modern Art calls the Apple Creative Director, Richard Steckler...
New Order’s Peter Hook, a night out in New York in the early 90s...
Mariah Carey’s manager asks ODB to appear on one of her singles. Brilliance ensues...
Sly Stone kicks Miles Davis off his keyboard, becomes a terrible tennant, doesn’t want to sack his bass player so tries to have him killed instead, meets Karen Carpenter and gets in a fight with Mohammed Ali. And his dog attacks his son.
Not a story as such, but Dave Stuart’s central London pad sounds awesome.
