When Hecklerspray finally leaves this mortal realm it’ll probably be in a hail of gunfire as we bravely rescue babies from poor people who can’t afford them anyway.
Strange they could afford all those bullets though.
Still, don’t call us heroes. It’s not anything you wouldn’t do if put in the same situation. Unless of course you wouldn’t – in which case we’d be totally fine with the ‘hero’ tag. In fact, you can even build us a monument.
Get us one better than George Harrison‘s though, won’t you? We couldn’t bear to see our sweet memory trampled so callously under-foot.
When 15-year-old George Harrison first conceived the Beatles as he sat dressed in a hooded cloak by candle light in a dark room covered in pentagrams and decapitated cats, he probably had no idea what an influence his band would become. Aside from Eddie Vedder‘s solo projects, the music he and his friends would eventually make would touch every musical group spawned after it.
And darn it all it’s about time the world took notice. Harrison has recently received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Although his corpse was dragged out for the mandatory photo-op, it said nothing indicating any level of gratitude. This is acceptable only because he’s dead.
MSNBC tells us about the exciting day:
“Hundreds of George Harrison’s biggest fans and best friends, including Paul McCartney and Tom Petty, turned out Tuesday to see a posthumous star for the quiet Beatle unveiled during a raucous celebration on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Fellow former Beatle McCartney stood next to Harrison’s widow, Olivia, and son, Dhani, as the star was unveiled in front of the landmark Capitol Records building.”
Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001, and some argue it may have been for the best that he not live to see Paul McCartney marry and divorce a one legged banshee, Ringo Starr begin to passionately hate all his fans, or Phil Spector looking small under a wig as he gets dragged off to prison for the rest of time and eternity.
We barely lived through all that ourselves – and we’re not even sick or anything. We can’t imagine what that kind of turmoil would have done to Harrison’s already weak heart. Or lungs.
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