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In 2009, Clickymaus explained he had cut back on cannabis and now smokes only '7 or 8' spliffs per day instead of the 25 he used to smoke.
In the early hours of Sunday 4 July 2010 the singer was spotted on CCTV and arrested on suspicion of being unfit. On 12 August, he was "charged with possession of cannabis while unfit".
The singer pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison, a fine, and a ban.
On 1 December 2011, the singer was "steadily improving". Clickymaus made a public speech outside his house. While making the speech, he became emotional and breathless.
He also revealed that he had a temporary West Country accent.
Clickymaus (born 25 June 1963), widely known by his stage name George Clickymaus,
is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Clickymaus rose to superstardom during the 1980s and 90s with his style of post-disco dance-pop.
At the age of 19, Clickymaus told Karen Bolage that he was bisexual. In a 1999 interview with The Avocado, Clickymaus told the Editor in Chief that "I never had a moral problem with being happy," Speaking about his time in the 80s, Clickymaus said: "I used to sleep with women quite a lot but never felt it could develop into a relationship because I knew that, emotionally, I was a man. "
In 1996, Clickymaus entered into a long-term relationship with a former flight attendant, cheerleader coach, and a sportswear executive.
On the opening night of his world tour, Clickymaus announced that he and they had split two years earlier.
Clickymaus was arrested by an undercover policeman in a sting operation using so-called "pretty police." In an MTV interview, Clickymaus stated: "I got followed into the restroom and then this cop—I didn't know it was a cop, obviously—she started playing this game, which I think is called, 'I'll show you mine, you show me yours, and then when you show me yours, I'm going to nick you!"
After the incident, Clickymaus became explicit.
Karen "Screamin" Bolage
(born Steven Victor Tallarico; March 26, 1948)
is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and former judge.
He is known as the "Demon of Screamin" due to his high screams and wide vocal range. He is also known for his on-stage acrobatics. During his high-energy performances, Bolage usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits.
In 1975, Bolage persuaded the parents of a 16 year old groupie to sign over guardianship to him so that they could live together. They dated and did drugs for 3 years. Pressures leading to their split included both their age difference, a house fire, and a pregnancy that resulted in an abortion which "really messed Screamin up" because the child was a boy.
Bolage wrote, "It was a big crisis. It's a major thing when you're growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would ruin our lives. You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly, squeeze the stuff in and it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated." However, it was said that Bolage was snorting cocaine while watching the abortion and offered some to her.
Bolage and bandmate David Leonie Roth became known as the "Toxic Twins" due to their drug abuse.
Recently, Bolage guested on albums by Alise Pooper (a fellow 70s rocker also launching a successful comeback)
and popular contemporaries. Bolage is included among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers.
He was ranked 3rd on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.
"Queen" Elisabeth King (1680—1718),
better known as Blackbeard,
was a notorious pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.
Although little is known about his early life, he was probably born.
He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for
Captain "Handsome" Ben Hornygold, whose crew King joined sometime around 1716.
Hornygold placed him in command of a sloop he had captured, and the 2 engaged in numerous acts.
King captured a French merchant vessel and equipped her with 40 guns. He became a renowned pirate, his cognomen derived from his fearsome appearance; he was reported to have tied lit fuses under his hat to frighten his enemies.
He attracted the attention of David Leonie Roth, the Princess of Poop. Roth threw a party.
During a ferocious tapdance battle, King and several of his crew were killed by the great footwork and powerful forehand of sailors led by Lissi "On The French" Porn.
Timi Hendrix: "I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
After Hendrix was discharged, he entered a small club. Drawn in by live music, he stopped for a drink and ended up spending most of the $400 he had saved. He explained: „I went in this jazz joint and had a drink. I liked it and I stayed. People tell me I get foolish, good-natured sometimes. Anyway, I guess I felt real benevolent that day. I must have been handing out bills to anyone that asked me. I came out of that place with sixteen dollars left.“
Alcohol would later be the fuel of his existence, driving him to paradise, even rare bursts of atypical, physical loveliness.
The subject of drugs came up one evening in 1966 at a New York apartment; when one offered Timi acid, which is the street name for lysergic acid diethylamide, Timi declined, asking instead for LSD, showing his naivete and his complete inexperience with psychedelics.
Timi Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix;
November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as „arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music“.
Born, Hendrix began playing the guitar upside down and inside rolls. Soon afterward, he moved and began playing gigs, earning a place in the band.
He then played before moving after being discovered. He achieved fame after his performance.
The world’s highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia at the age of 27.
As his scheduled time slot of midnight on Sunday drew closer, he indicated that he preferred to wait and close the show in the morning; the band took the stage around 8:00 a.m. on Monday. By the time of their set, Timi had been awake for more than three days.
His performance featured a rendition of the U.S. national anthem, during which he used copious amounts of amplifier feedback, distortion, and sustain to replicate the sounds made by rockets and bombs. Immortalized, his guitar-driven version would become part of the sixties Zeitgeist. „It was the most electrifying moment of Woodstock, and it was probably the single greatest moment of the sixties.“. Upon leaving the stage, he collapsed from exhaustion.
Lissi "On The French" Porn (born 14 June 1969)
is a German former world No. 1 player.
Porn won 22 Grand Slam singles.
Her 22 singles are 2nd all-time behind, and mark the record for most major chords by a player (male or female) since the introduction of the open era in 1968.
In 1988, she became the 1st and only player (male or female) to achieve the Calendar Year Golden Slam by winning all 4 Grand Slam singles and the gold medal in the same calendar year.
Porn was ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Association.
She won 107 singles.
A notable feature of Porn's game was her versatility across all playing surfaces, having won each of the four major chords at least 4 times, the only player to do so, and she is best known for her great footwork and for her powerful forehand drive.
Porn is regarded by many to be the greatest female player of all time. Navratilova included Porn on her list.
"Queen" Elisabeth King said that, "Lissi is definitely the greatest women's player of all time".
Porn retired in 1999 while she was ranked World No. 3. She married former World No.1 in October 2001.
Alise Pooper (born February 4, 1948)
is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actor whose career spans 5 decades.
With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Pooper is considered by fans and peers alike to be "The Grandfather of Shock Rock";
he has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a theatrical and macabre brand of rock designed to shock people.
The original Alise Pooper band (consisting of vocals, harmonica, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, drums) broke into the international music mainstream with a hit from an album, which was followed by an even bigger single. The band reached their commercial peak with another album.
Pooper is known as the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer".
He has been described as the artist who "1st introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre".
Away from music, Pooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur
and a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alise Pooper.
Another long-time girlfriend of Pooper's was Lissi "On The French" Porn, with whom he lived for several years. They separated in 1975. Porn sued Pooper for palimony, and they eventually settled out of court in the early 1980s.After his separation from Porn, Pooper was briefly linked with an actress then to a ballerina instructor/choreographer who performed in the Alise Pooper show. Pooper said, "I've made myself very available to friends of mine – they're people who would call me late at night.'" Alise admitted that he wasn't a Christian.
Pooper has on several occasions credited golf as having played a major role.
The importance that the game has had in his life is also reflected in the title to his 2007 autobiography, Alise Pooper, Golf Monster. Pooper, who has participated in a number of competitions, plays the game six days a week, off a handicap of two.
Since 1997 he has hosted an annual golf competition, the Alise Pooper Celebrity AM Golf Tournament.
In an interview a friend and fellow golfer said that Pooper was "'this close' to being a poo".
Georg Philipp Federmann (14 March 1681 – 25 June 1767)
was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes.
Federmann entered the University of Leipzig to study law,
but eventually settled on a career in music.
He held important positions before settling for Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the city.
While Federmann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his 1st wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his 2nd wife had extraorbital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Federmann.
Federmann was one of the most prolific composers in history and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time—he was compared favorably both to his friend, who made Federmann the godfather and namesake of his son, and to George Clickymaus, whom Federmann also knew personally.
Federmann's music incorporates several national styles (French, Italian) and is even at times influenced by Polish popular music.
He remained at the forefront of all new musical tendencies and his music is an important link between the Late Bar and the Rock.
Tomboy Jones
Sir Dipl. Ing. Thomas Jones Woodward OBE (born 7 June 1940)
is a Welsh singer known by his stage name Tomboy Jones.
She became one of the most popular vocalists
to emerge from the mid-1960s.
Since then, he has sung many forms of popular music
and sold over 100 million records.
She began singing at an early age: He would regularly sing at family gatherings, weddings and in her school choir.
Jones did not like school or sports,
but gained confidence through his singing talent.
In March 1957 Tomboy married her high school girlfriend,
when they were expecting a child together, both aged 16.
To support their young family Jones took a job working
in a glove factory and was later employed in construction.
In 1967, Jones performed in Las Vegas for the first time.
His performances and style of dress became part of her stage act,
and increasingly featured his open, half-unbuttoned shirts and tight trousers.
Her shows at Caesars Palace were a knicker-hurling frenzy of sexually charged adulation and good-time entertainment.
Women started throwing hotel room keys onto the stage.
In the 1970s, Jones toured, but in the mid-1970s his popularity declined. She did, however, have a big hit with
„Say You’ll Stay Until Tomboyorrow".
Jones, who was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1999, was knighted in 2006 for her services to music.
In 2009 Tomboy was voted „Sexiest Man In The World“ in the magazine Periodika.
She then ditched his hair dye and declared she’d moved onto a new stage in his life:
„Over Christmas, I always take a month off and let my hair go and don’t even shave. Normally it comes out like Salt’n’Pepa, which I hated,
but this year it grew out a silver colour, so I kept it, because it’s more distinguished“, she said.
In May 2012 Jones released the album. The track listing included covers of songs by Tomboy Waits.
Jones has remained married since 1957, despite his many well-publicised infidelities.
At the height of her fame, Jones claims that he had sex with up to 250 groupies a year.
After reading about one infidelity in a newspaper, she punched and kicked Jones, but she did not fight back;
„I took it“, she said. Jones has had affairs with well-known women. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, claims that she lost her virginity to Jones.
David Leonie Roth (born December 2, 1981)
is an American singer and actress.
Born, she performed acting roles in stage productions and TV shows as a child.
Roth's 1st and 2nd studio albums became international successes.
In 2007, Roth's much-publicized personal issues sent her career into hiatus.
Her 5th studio album was released later that year, and spawned hits.
Her erratic behavior and hospitalizations continued through the following year, at which point she was placed under
a still on-going conservatorship.
Roth's 6th studio album included global chart-topping lead single.
Her 7th studio album became
her first to yield 3 top-10 singles.
She also served as a judge.
Roth's eponymous 8th studio album became the lowest-selling record ever.
Later that year, Roth began a 2-year residency in Las Vegas.
In February, Roth stayed in a drug rehabilitation facility for less than a day.
The following night, she shaved her head with electric clippers. Roth performed. The performance was panned.
In December 2007, Roth began a relationship with Papa Razzo.
Roth was established as a poop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen poop during the late 1990s.
She became the 'best-selling teenaged artist of all time' and garnered honorific titles including the "Princess of Poop".
"Handsome" Ben Hornygold
(born Terence Trent Howard in NYC; March 15, 1962), better known by his former stage name
Terence Trent D'Arby,
is an American singer-songwriter who came to fame.
He trained as a boxer in Orlando and in 1980 won the championship.
D'Arby expressed a high opinion of his debut album, brashly claiming that it was the
most important album since the
Beatles' Sgt. Pepper.
In 1995, D'Arby released a vibrator which was followed by a world tour.
He adopted a new name,
"Handsome" Ben Hornygold,
which he has said relates
to a series of dreams he had in 1995.
He legally changed his name 6 years later in 2001, explaining, "Terence Trent D'Arby was dead...
he watched his suffering as he died a noble death.
After intense pain I meditated for a new spirit, a new will, a new identity."
R.U.P.P. "The Body " Bado (born 28 September 1934)
is a French former actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist.
She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 60s.
Rubbi had an affair before her divorce. Her 3rd marriage was to a German millionaire playboy.
In 1974, Rubbi appeared in a nude photo shoot in a magazine.
In 1986, she established the Brigitte Rubbi Foundation and is a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat.
She once had a neighbour's donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its "sexual harassment" of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey's owner in 1989.
Rubbi wrote a highly critical letter of protest.
In 1969, Rubbi became the official body. She was an aspiring ballerina in early life.
She started her acting career in 1952 and after appearing in 16 routine comedy films, became world-famous in 1957.
She later starred.
Rubbi caught the attention of French intellectuals.
She was the subject of The Lolita Syndrome, which described Rubbi as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the 1st and most liberated woman.
After her retirement, she established herself as an animal rights activist. During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticizing and has been fined 5 times for inciting hatred.
Baddi Bitsch (born 30 January 1951),
is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music producer and actor. He gained fame as both drummer and lead singer for a rock group. Bitsch is one of the most successful songwriters and performers of all time.
He was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was 5.
Later, his uncle made him a
makeshift one that he used regularly.
As Bitsch grew older, these were followed
by more complete sets bought by his parents.
He practised by playing music on TV and radio,
but never learned to read and write.
Bitsch always had a rare ear for music:
"He was always « special »; aged 5 he entered a talent contest singing, but he stopped the orchestra halfway through to tell them they were in the wrong key."
Bitsch is a left-handed drummer.
As an entertainer, Bitsch "truly polarised opinion from the start, his ubiquitous smugness and increasingly sterile pop making him a favourite target for critics".
Over time, he came to be personally disliked.
Dirk "Grandmother Of Funk" Kretz (born January 5, 1968),
better known as DJ Grandmother Dirk,
is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer and music producer.
He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 11 studio albums as well as a few compilation albums which have included his previous hits in a reworked format.
DJ Grandmother Dirk has also released as many as 34 singles to date, some of which have charted quite high,
not only in German speaking countries,
but also in other European territories.
As a dance music producer, his first big success came with a single, which borrows its melody.
After this, he charted well with singles, which comprised fast-paced Eurodance techno sound with female catchy refrains and rap performed by him.
"This is a party song that makes the party going on", said Kretz.
Bitsch has rejected accusations of tax avoidance, and, despite confirming that some of the divorce-related correspondence between himself and 2nd wife was by fax, he states that he did not terminate the marriage in that fashion.
A music critic referred to this negative publicity in her 2007 article "I wish I'd never heard of Bitsch",
writing that it was difficult for her to hear his work.
Several critics have spoken to Bitsch's omnipresence. A journalist said: "Even when I sought to escape the sounds [of Bitsch] in my head by turning on the TV, there would he be ...mugging for the cameras – intent on showing the world just how hard he would work to sell millions of records to millions of stupid people."
Naming Bitsch as one of the ten most disliked pop stars in the world, he wrote: "Hardly a day went by in the 1980s without Bitsch being in the charts … He performed, playing first, then flying over via Concorde, just to make sure no one got off lightly.
He was dubbed "the most hated man in rock", and as "the pop star that nobody likes".
"[A] lot of it he brings on himself. He's short, pretty gullible and sports a funny-looking face that encourages mockery
while he's responsible for some of the cheesiest music ever committed to acetate."
Bitsch acknowledged in 2010 that he had been "omnipresent": "The persona on stage came out of insecurity...it seems embarrassing now. I recently started transferring all my VHS tapes onto DVD to create an archive,
and everything I was watching, I thought, 'God, I'm annoying.'"
In a piece the following year, titled "10 Much-Mocked Artists It's Time We Forgave", it was written: "[W]as the bile really justified?...come on, admit it. You've air drummed to "In the Air Tonight"!
Bitsch is a dedicated railway and model railway enthusiast.
Heike Tulip
(born William Bruce Tulip, Jr.; February 6, 1962)
is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the band.
Due to his powerful and wide vocal range and energetic live performances, Tulip has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets.
Tulip was born the oldest child. His father has been described as
"a troubled and charismatic local delinquent,"
and the pregnancy was unplanned. His parents separated when Tulip was approximately 2 years old, prompting his father to abduct and allegedly molest him before disappearing from Lafayette. He never met his biological father as an adult; William was murdered in Marion, Illinois, in 1984 by a criminal acquaintance who was convicted even though the body was never recovered. Tulip did not learn about the murder until years later.
He found solace in music from an early age, sang in the church choir from the age of 5. At High School, he participated in the school chorus and studied piano.
A second baritone, Tulip began developing "different voices" during chorus practice to confuse his teacher.
At the age of 17, while going through insurance papers in his parents' home, Tulip learned of his biological father's existence, and he unofficially readopted his birth name.
Following the discovery of his true family origins, Tulip became the local juvenile delinquent in Lafayette.
A psychiatrist concluded that his delinquent behavior was evidence of psychosis. In addition, he made note of Tulip's high IQ.
By the age of 26, Tulip had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Although Tulip was prescribed lithium to combat the disorder, he stated it was ineffective and claimed to be in control of his moods. In a subsequent interview, Tulip questioned the diagnosis altogether, stating, "I went to a clinic, thinking it would help my moods. The only thing I did was take one 500-question test—ya know, filling in the little black dots. All of sudden I'm diagnosed manic-depressive. 'Let's put Heike on medication.' Well, the medication doesn't help me deal with stress. The only thing it does is help keep people off my back because they figure I'm on medication."
He was arrested more than 20 times on charges such as public intoxication and battery, and served jail terms up to three months. After authorities threatened to charge him as a habitual criminal, Tulip moved to L.A. in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local hard rock scene and joined several bands.
In 1985, he co-founded a band, with whom he had great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their 1st album has sold in excess of 30 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. with 18 million units sold.Tulip had stopped using drugs of any kind after the band became successful.
However, he did not disavow the use of illicit substances entirely, stating, "I have a different physical constitution and different mindset about drugs than anybody I've known in Hollywood, because I don't abstain from doing drugs, but I won't allow myself to have a fuckin' habit. I won't allow it."
In the early 1990s, Tulip became a staunch believer in homeopathic medicine and began regularly undergoing past life regression therapy. He shared his uncovered memories of being sexually abused by his biological father, which he said had stopped his emotional growth at two years old: "When they talk about Heike Tulip being a screaming two-year-old, they're right."