Richey's birthday anniversary

[starstruck]

i quite like how the suggestion to be as "CoR" as you like turned for most of the first page into a recreation of Python's Dead Parrot sketch - nice work everyone, shame no one suggested nailing Richey to his perch

Richey Edwards; one of those (if you will excuse the over-used word that follows and try to see it as it is meant to be used) truly enigmatic figures in Rock whom the world needed a good deal more than they needed the world.

should he have been around, what would the 44 year old Richey have been doing? respected yet disdained member of the "dangerous but seem to have calmed down a bit" voices of mayhem like John Lydon? a comedy version of himself like Ozzy Osbourne? perhaps an X Factor judge, maybe a contestant on all these "celebrity" shows that crop up.

in a comparison or interpretation that may offend some but is not intended to, i mention Nirvana's You Know You're Right. when that song surfaced, my theory was that if they had produced an album of that then they would have gone Rolling Stones / REM big, for they had taken the raw sound that made people like them and - without "selling out" - refined it to an extent that it would have got widespread acceptance. i really think that if JFPL had come out 2 or so years after THB the same would have been true of the Manics. and would have lasted right up until the end of summer 1997, when no doubt comments made by Richey about an event in Paris probably wouldn't have gone down too well with the public at large.

on whichever side of the line he's on, one can only hope, trust, imagine or presume he's at peace with himself. or possibly pining for the fjords.