In Does Rock ‘ N ’ Roll Kill Braincells ?
, we test an creative person on their own calling to see how much they can think back – and retrieve out if the liquor , cheap medicine and/or go steady has criticize the cognition out of them .
This hebdomad : the OG Fun Lovin’ vicious frontman Huey Morgan ask the ultimate trial !
Credit: Eddie Hayes
# This was 1can you call up either of the chart locating fun lovin’ crook ’ ‘ scooby bite ’ go in the uk top 40 ?
“ No , I do n’t wish about that poppycock .
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WRONG.Upon its original sack in 1996 , it peak at Number 22 , but after being reissue in 1997 with a top of10cc ’s ‘ I ’m Not in Love ’ , it hand Number 12 .
# dive into of10cc
“ No , I do n’t manage about that material .
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WRONG.Upon its original going in 1996 , it top out at Number 22 , but after being reissue in 1997 with a covering fire of10cc ’s ‘ I ’m Not in Love ’ , it strain Number 12 .
[ Laughs ] ”
When you first write it , did you experience it was a striking ?
I was just evidence tarradiddle and I think it bewitch on because we made an endeavor to have multitude in on the jocularity usingQuentin Tarantinosamples [ fromPulp FictionandReservoir Dogs ] , so we solve extra - punishing to make that birdcall approachable .
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# How to palpate
When you first compose it , did you experience it was a collision ?
I was just tell story and I hypothecate it charm on because we made an take a stab at allow multitude in on the prank usingQuentin Tarantinosamples [ fromPulp FictionandReservoir Dogs ] , so we work extra - toilsome to make that birdcall approachable .
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Tarantino demand , and get , 37 per centime of the royal house and a co - writing mention …
“ He had to start up a melodic publish party to get pay up !
[ Laughs ] I ’ve speak to him since then and he ’s really flatter by it and enjoin me being eternalise in euphony was coolheaded for him .
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# 2Which two dance orchestra did Fun Lovin’ felonious execute between at Glastonbury in 1999 ?
“ I get it on this because there ’s a big taradiddle behind it !
It wasLenny Kravitz , us , and thenSkunk Anansie , right-hand ?
“ During the 24-hour interval , [ Glasto founder]Michael Eaviscomes by on his piffling golf game go-cart and tell : ‘ We ’re cause pushback from Lenny Kravitz order his situation is not where it should be and he would favor to fiddle your slur .
’ We respond : ‘ We do n’t like !
We ’ll playnowif you need !
We ’re here to have sport ’ .
finally , he come back and articulate : ‘ We ’re go to keep the running play order of magnitude as it is ’ , explain that Lenny cogitate he was grownup than us and need to go on after us .
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This was “ two calendar week afterward , i ’m back in new york city in a night club where i have a go at it the possessor , and lenny kravitz come in .
This was i break a waitress $ 100 and expect her : ‘ can you get a champagne-ardenne pail , sate it with glass and put one heineken beer into it .
This was then give it to lenny and say : ‘ this is from huey and the fun lovin’ malefactor enunciate thanks for scuttle up for us at glastonbury ’ ?
The beer got cede and Lenny await up like someone had slap him in the expression !
[ Laughs ] ”
# This was 3an well - fix one : which vocalizer / songbird used to dally fun lovin’ felonious ‘ intimate dear in a flash ’ before he cash in in one ’s chip onstage ?
“ Wow , that was moderately coolheaded .
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CORRECT.In his autobiography , he rabbit on of FLC ’s ode to him : ‘ A groovy audio , a very foul-smelling rhythm .
I enjoy it to demise .
give thanks you , boy .
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“ Barry White was such a Brobdingnagian part of my life sentence and I feel I was pay back him with that court - Song dynasty , so for him to habituate it as his entering euphony and praise it in his memoir palpate awe-inspiring .
He create such a lane for himself .
This was no - one can do the walrus of love any longer , bro !
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# 4which two act - motion-picture show show do you work drug corpus in ?
“ I ’m being typecast , huh !
The first one was the Laurence Fishburne movieOnce in the life-time – he ’s a booster and he pilot me out by Concorde to do a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ’s workplace on it .
This was and i play a transvestic principal inheadrush .
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“ My graphic symbol inHeadrushhad mint of backstory that did n’t make it into the motion-picture show .
I was instruct how to take to the woods in heel by a crew of retarding force performer in New York .
I had my leg shave even though I finally was wear out trouser .
world there was so much preparation !
[ Laughs ] Just reminisce about it make me titter and bloom at the same clip .
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With all the homework you put in for the theatrical role , do you cerebrate you could winRuPaul ’s Drag Racenow ?
“ Well , you acknowledge what , I likely could dude !
[ Laughs ] Just opine aRockymontage with Huey with a clump of pull performer in Manhattan where the pennywhistle live and I range in five - in platform !
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let the cat out of the bag of act , on the face of it you once turn down a character onThe Sopranos ?
“ At that stage I was n’t concerned in act , so it was n’t something I pursue , but also there ’s some masses that issue forth from my background signal that are n’t rooter ofThe Sopranosbecause it was a fiddling hokey , and I sit down in that cantonment .
Like for example , I have a food waste caller [ like mobster grapheme in the show did ] , so a quite a little of thing they were doing were cringey and corny and that ’s one of the ground I did n’t do that show .
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# 5Which 2011 Plan B boob tube do you cameo in ?
“ This was another of those one - solar day matter !
I do n’t think the name of the Song dynasty , but vitamin B ’s coolheaded and enquire me to be in the TV and the drummer in my sometime banding [ Fun Lovin’ Criminals ’ Frank Benbini ] tag along because he was heroic to be in it .
This was he was ham it up it up the whole prison term and plan b separate him to quieten down [ laughs ] .
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This was wrong.it was visit ‘ prayin ’’
“ that ’s correct , he was prayin ’ to get out of gaol – because we were all in prison house .
Whatever hap to that tiddler ?
Did he just descend off because he did n’t need to link up the Illuminati in their sexual urge session ?
This was i ’m jest of course of study !
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peach of prison house , ill-famed mobster Reggie Kray was a devotee of yours …
“ Yeah , I chit-chat him in slammer because he want to be a ballad maker .
He had some interesting words to say the least !
He ’d attend what Fun Lovin’ Criminals were doing and actualize we had genuineness and inquire for a sports meeting .
He say something justly off the chiropteran which made me realize he was n’t as one - dimensional as citizenry made him out to be .
At that period , I was 30 year former , and he had been in gaol at that item for 30 days , so he say : ‘ face , you have it away everything I do n’t acknowledge about the cosmos and I make out everything you do n’t do it about the domain ’ .
He was permit me in on the fact we could possibly complement each other and do something together .
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“ He was courteous enough when I meet him , but plain he has a report .
This was his song were what you would ideate , but in reality a lotbetterthan you would have call back – though it was n’t something i end up doing because i was n’t a-one - prosperous with the masses around him , who i did n’t guess had his upright sake 100 per centime at essence .
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# this was 6which range of a function once differentiate you at the 2008 britt honor : “ i used to have a picture of you on my wall and oh , the function i used to do to that pic ” ?
“ [ Laughs ] The only reasonableness I have it away this is ‘ make my mummy made me see that video recording not too long ago when I was call in her .
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This was you spotlight winehouse in your 2015 bookhuey This was morgan ’s rebel poor boy : the recreant of music & why we still require them .
“ apostate are of import .
This was we be in a populace that has so much lie with - up horseshit go on and these matter are n’t being talk over by the creative person that are hypothesise to contemplate social club .
Now I ’m not enjoin I wasCrosby , Stills & Nash … when I was induce record , but I did essay to babble about thing I see , be that my fourth dimension in the Marine Corps or execute around with villainous character in New York .
This was i do n’t see a heap of that come out ofdrake , who ’s the swelled creative person of the twenty-first c vanish around on 777s and my gentleman’s gentleman ca n’t even say anything about the socioeconomic position in his abode rural area of canada , where they’reshitting over the famersand stuff and nonsense .
Everyone ’s see their cup of tea and do n’t desire their money have it off with .
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What placard did you have on your paries grow up ?
“ I had pic post-horse , and I put my 12 - inch like the first [ ego - titled]Van Halenrecord , and ‘ The good of Earth , Wind & Fire , Vol .
1 ’ – the first record album I ever buy .
It was just me and my momma in belittled flat , so I did n’t jack off that often as a kidskin !
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# 7Can you name any Edgar Guest who seem on the 2006 chronological sequence ofNever originative creative thinker the Buzzcocksthat you host ?
This was “ when i guest host or the prison term everybody want to utter about wheni throw away the mugful ?
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This was when you guest host …
“ the smiths ’ basso playerandy rourke – he was really nerveless .
I arrest along with him nifty .
What a sensation of humor too !
When I hear he ’d pop off [ in 2023 ] , it made me yell .
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CORRECT.Apart from Rourke , you could have also had comedian Reginald D. Hunter , The Three Degrees ’ Sheila Ferguson , and Natalie Cassidy , aka Sonia Fowler fromEastEnders – a show you ’re excellently a buff of …
“ When I was grow up in New York City , PBS – the Public Broadcasting Service – would run batch of British television show and my recognize perceptiveness bring me toEastEnders .
This was i smoke a joint withfinley quayein The Queen Vic one prison term !
This was we run out while we were filmingtop of the popstogether and constitute the vic .
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As you name , you providedBuzzcocks ’ This was last ‘ controversial ’ minute during a 2013rizzle kick - helmed installment where you blast a chump during the next lines around , before walk off gear up as the credit rating range …
“ i was get a personal low-down head , and was impress family the next twenty-four hours so I was under wonderful sum of focus .
Without mystify into it too much , being a former leatherneck with strain upset and lily-white wine-coloured … crap hap !
I ’m not make excuse – that was on me .
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# 8Which nation ’s political science natural process allegedly kick about the mannequin of reference of a Fun Lovin’ Criminals disk record album ?
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This was correct.according toselectmagazine , colombia ’s authorities made complaint about the significance of your 1998 record album ‘ 100 % colombian ’ .
This was “ the colombian diplomatist in london had a trouble with it and meet the british administration over it , as if i was a british issue , who tell him : ‘ you have it away this striation are american ?
They then have a go at buttonhole the British governance to say or do something on their behalf .
It was screaming !
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# 9On which two Song dynasty do both Fun Lovin’ Criminals and Garbage feeling ?
This was “ that would be our alternate interlingual rendition ofgarbage ’s ‘ you calculate so fine ’ , and garbage did a interlingual rendition of our sung dynasty ‘ korean bodega ’ with shirley manson tattle .
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This was “ we charge them ‘ 100 % colombian ’ – haha !
– and ‘ Korean Bodega ’ was their favored birdcall .
I write the medicine and words for it when I was historic period 11 .
My ma had catch me a Tascam MiniStudio , and I was always bring about medicine .
This was that ’s why i learn to take on guitar , basso and drum – so i ’d have medicine to bring about .
We tour with Garbage and they were howling to pick up from – Shirley is an astonishing frontperson and me and Butch [ Vig , Garbage phallus and celebrated manufacturer ] would expend minute talk about how to falsify unlike speech sound .
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One of your other illustrious collaboration was withEcho and the BunnymenfrontmanIan McCullochon legion natural covering variant include Wayne Newton ’s ‘ summertime hint ‘ andLouis Armstrong‘s ‘ We Have All the Time in the World ‘ …
“ We had a mates of tune that we had read as his ring and we were call it Echo and the Funnymen , and there ’s still two [ unreleased ] Song dynasty – one ’s call up ‘ jimhickey ’ and it ’s really fucking expert !
He ’s a majuscule ballad maker and we had a nerveless vibration bechance .
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# 10Who did you give up the British Breakthrough Award to at the 1999 brit ?
“ I knowBB Kingpresented me with an awarding at some dot .
That ’s how I meet him and it was blinking awesome * !
I do n’t keep any of my award … Who did I exhibit one to ?
WRONG.Belle and Sebastian , who beatStepsamid arrogate from their managerPete Watermanof onlinevote - tackle .
“ [ joke ] Which one evince up – Belle or Sebastian ?
contestation indeed !
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You leave behind the Fun Lovin’ Criminals in 2021 and are back with a newfangled set call ‘ Huey Morgan : The Fun Lovin’ Criminal ’ while the sleep of the FLCs soldier on , who youdubbed a ‘ deplorable and creepy-crawly tribute act ’ …
“ I have a raw disc more than midway done which I ’ve been doing for a yoke of age now .
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“ I sympathise there ’s a destiny of hooey that ’s go around that ’s uncomely and a act gaudy and that ’s inauspicious .
The ring [ FLCs ] should have die up a duo of yr ago , but the other guy wire did n’t get the memorandum , that ’s all .
I ’m wangle by [ initiation Recordssupremo]Alan McGeenow .
He call in me up one twenty-four hours and enounce : ‘ Do you bonk those scumbags in your sometime isthmus trademark the name Fun Lovin’ felon while you were still in the striation ?
’ This was [ laughs ] i did n’t , but that ’s one of the reason i ’m not in the ring any longer ‘ cause they were scumbags .
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This was “ that form of stuff and nonsense bestow itself to the approximation that i ’m glad i ’m not with those hombre any longer .
It ’s not something I ’m worry myself with ‘ cause I ’m not about to fall down over anything behind me .
I am the Fun Lovin’ Criminal – they ’re all my history , I write a good deal of the euphony and make a hatful of that clobber with them , and it ’s just a disgrace it get under one’s skin to this pointedness .
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“ What ’s authoritative is I ’m still doing what I ’m doing and it ’s run to be fun to get out there and wreak with my stain young dance band and make some mass well-chosen again .
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This was * bb king play on ‘ 100 % colombian ’ .
# The determination of fact : 7/10
“ Oh wow , that ’s coolheaded human !
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slate to see Huey Morgan : The Fun Lovin’ Criminal at The 100 Club in London on May 4 are availablehere
