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ROCK STARS

“Am I alone in thinking that the phrase ‘rock star’ has been cheapened of late? Once upon a time it meant the very heights of the profession, something most musicians aspired to. Teenagers picked up guitars and strummed until their fingers were bloody, hoping that one day they’d make it and become a ‘rock star’. Now, it seems to me, all you have to do is pick up a fucking guitar and you can say you’re a ‘rock star’. You don’t even need to be any good. Pub musicians call themselves ‘rock stars’, guys in the college band call themselves ‘rock stars’. I heard a woman call a pub DJ a “rock star” once with a twinkle in her eye, and a number of people I’ve met have claimed to have slept with “rock stars” even if these people had never released a record and had only played a support slot at their university hall. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there a time when you could score a number of Top Ten hits and still not get spoken of in the same breath as the greats? At the end of the day, the bloke who busks in the London Underground every evening, playing ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Walking In L.A.’ for tossed change, is not a ‘rock star’, and the girl who sucks his dick is not a ‘groupie’.”

Karl Steiger, 2006.

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