Ian Brown, Van Morrison, Noel Gallagher...erm...that bloke from The Corrs - the list of pop stars who've chosen to eschew science and embrace conspiracy theories seems to grow daily. And Lee 'Scratch' Perry? Well admittedly his starting point was possibly already quite a way from what many would consider to be the beaten track, but increasingly over the past couple of years his all-caps social media posts have given us still further insights into his own particular world view. Take for example '...THERE IS NO MORE RUNNING AWAY TO JAMAICA FROM THE CHEMTRAILS! POISON EVERYWHERE!!! AND NOW THEY ARE GOING TO ROAST US AND MICROWAVE US WITH THE 5G...' or '...CA WILDFIRES ARE MANIPULATIONS AND WEAPONIZATION OF WEATHER AND WATER! CLIMATE CHANGE IS A LIE...'
Fortunately we have an almost bottomless treasure of sublime Scratch recordings, created in comparatively less terrifying times, to help distract us from some of his more recent, ill-advised musings.
Lee Perry - Dreadlocks in Moonlight
7 comments:
At least Jedward are here to save us... from the Corrs bloke, at least...
The Jedward angle completely passed me by Martin, but I've just been acquainting myself with the story following your comment. You couldn't make it up!
F***ing bonkers...the lot of them.......stick to the music, then again
Ian Brown's Twitter account spouts more and more nonsense each day. Someone needs to make an intervention. Proof if it were needed that prolonged marijuana use does indeed impair brain function.
Time to separate the art from the artist. Joker did.
You can add Exene Cervenka from X to that list, but I have never had a twitter/facebook/all the rest account at all so it's a bit easier for me to separate the art from the artist.
...and thanks for the Robyn Hitchcock link that eventually took me to those Man Upstairs-era demos. It's impossible to keep up with all of his releases.
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