Mark's Pages

June 21, 2008:

Ahead of their time, behind their time.

Attitude, approach, sound, fashion, influence.

Drug and alcohol abuse, the absence of rehabs or of medical understanding of addiction.

"It seems to take the pop world thirty years to understand anybody, to really understand a group or an artist. And often it takes deaths within the group. And then people say, 'Ah yes, we do like those people,' now that they're not here. But the majority opinion where pop music is concerned is always silly, and always wrong, and always very very slow." —Morrissey