Trollheart |
04-01-2013 07:28 AM |
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Originally Posted by Necromancer
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Well you certainly couldn't fault his touring schedule! The guy went everywhere, culminating in that massive free gig at Mount Sinai. What an experience that must have been. But I didn't think much of his experimental art-rock album, "Forty days and nights in the desert with the Devil" --- meh, think he overreached himself on that one.
In the end I think it may have been his unexpected claim that he was "bigger than the Beatles" that did for him. You just can't let that sort of blasphemy slide, and he lost a lot of devout fans of the Fab Four in protest. After that, musical and personal differences within the band led to a split, despair and betrayal and in the end, the music press crucified him.
His comeback album, "Back from the dead", released on Easter Sunday, courted fresh controversy when worshippers of the Easter Bunny took offence, and it got panned by critics. He was never the same afterwards. People said it would take a miracle for him to be popular again, and so it proved.
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