Oliver Reed and Keith Moon - F*cking Legends!!

[Jock Strap]

Is anyone else watching Tommy on BBC2 right now?

Weren't Reed and Moon 2 of the greatest Englishmen ever???
Absolutely Premiership Pissheads and no mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!

And for those old enough to remember her - Ann Margaret is one of the sexiest ladies ever to walk this earth!!!!

The Who - after the beatles and stones - the best british band ever!!

Discuss all the above points.
Essays should be no more than 1000 words and submitted to Professor Strap no later than 5pm Friday 19th August.

[Pervert]

Moon, great drummer; talent wasted by being a pisshead.

Reed, could be a very good actor (see The Devils for proof); talent wasted by being a pisshead.

Ann Margret, covered in beans and suds and chocolate; yum-yum-yum.

[Jock Strap]

I disagree.
Both men shone in their respective fields. If they hadn't we wouldn't have heard of them. Perhaps they could have achieved more but they made sure they had a bloody good time while they were on this Earth.
As stated somewhere else on this forum Pete Doherty is a long streak of piss compared to hell-raisers like Reed and Moon.

But I agree with you - Ann Margaret - yummy!!!!!!!

Caractacus - you get a B+

[Jock Strap]

yes. nicholson was present and correct.
you make some very good points there rasputin.
you are of course right. russel was shite. but in a truly great way. the devils, tommy and whore were abysmal pieces of work but utterly compelling. russel was the british roger corman. utterly bollocks but totally necessary.

rasputin - I give you an A-

[Pervert]

Russell was David Lean compared with the "talent" that is Michael Winner.

If you think The Devils was shite (I think it's one of his best), then steer clear of The Lair Of The White Worm. Utter liquefied bowel movements.

[The Last Word]

Some are of the belief that Russell did his best work for TV during the sixties, especially his portraits of famous composers. And with Altered States and Crimes of Passion, he made two very different and remarkable films of the eighties, both slightly ahead of their time.

Tommy, however, seems too stodgy, and perhaps slightly too late, for its pop art trappings that were never going to sit easy with Townshend's bloated, conceptualised self-regard (idea-wise Quadrophenia was sharper, but has aged badly - a nostalgia show on mopeds).

Tommy cost around $5m to make, but took around $18m in the US alone.

[Steve R]

Jock Strap wrote:

> The Who - after the beatles and stones - the best british band
> ever!!


Perhaps, but before them all is Led Zeppelin.

[Richas]

Keith Richards has got to be the ultimate legend...the one who got away