A dripping Mr Larrington came through the Grand Portal of Larrington Towers tonight and found, face down upon the mat like unto a beached halibut the August 2009 issue of
Q. On picking it up, I discovered the cover photo was of a Ray-Banned and unshaven zombie who, the cover blurb assured me, was "Michael Jackson Unmasked".
Oh dear.
It's the month of Jacko
At the time of going to press, the self-styled King of Pop was due to play the first shows of his proposed 50-night stand at London's O2 Arena within a matter of days. But as Q has learnt in the process of putting this issue together, there are no certainties in Michael Jackson's world - besides the one that suggests anything that can go madly, will go madly.
Now that, kids, is what you call irony.
In the middle of the mag, there are twelve pages on the deceased.
Mr Rees, your shipment of Fail is in Reception.
In any case, Mr Cynical here wonders what's so special about 50 dates at the same venue. George Thorogood & The Destroyers came off a support slot for the Stones, played two shows in Boulder and over the next fifty days played a show in each of the fifty states of the US (plus one in Washington DC on the same day they played in Maryland). Lightweights, these so-called superstars...