Things you've always wanted to know......

[Hummer_I_mean_Hammer]

Your missus would simply accuse you of having man flu.

Could use that to advertise razors, man teaching his sons about swerving work by using the' old man fiu excuse.

[pablo jaye]

Are pop stars really loaded or not?

I was listening to some music by S’Express earlier and was wondering in general about bands that are not making music any more.

‘Have they made enough money so that they don’t need to work again’, or
‘Have they just had to give up their musical careers and return to a life of selling insurance ar pyramid selling’??

What are Hue and Cry doing, is Mark Moore living a jet set lifestyle, are Sweet loaded?????

[prophet:marginal]

A very large factor in that is the said pop star's royalty position; if he or she has written a song that is

(a) covered
(b) enormously successful, or
(c) picked up by other media, especially film

then a lifelong income is not implausible.

I don't know either of them - but my mate was once in the music paper game - and Steve Coogan (the actor) had a brother in the Mock Turtles, something of a non-descript baggy band, of the early 90's.

This brother wrote Can You Dig It, ending up selling the rights to it, to an advertising company, and was made for life (mortgage-free gaff, and a modest income off the invested funds)

Shane McGowan makes >£250,000 a year simply from the worldwide radio play of Fairytale of New York

[vietnammer]

Can depend on what sort of deals you sign (I suppose). Small Faces were famously conned out of a fortune.

[Shy Ted]

John Par made a fortune writing the Gillette advert, The Best A Man Can Get.

[southbrishammer]

are Sweet loaded?????

In addition to the above answers, anomalies of overseas markets can help. Apparently The Sweet are huge in Germany (they play metal these days rather than the glam rock we know them for) and still play massive sellout concerts there.

[sendô]

Why do women wear nose rings?

Do they actually think it makes them look more attractive?

[Monkeybubbles]

Why do women wear nose rings?

Do they actually think it makes them look more attractive?

It's just a fashion, mate. Like sandals and socks in January.

It's not for us.

[prophet:marginal]

Can depend on what sort of deals you sign (I suppose). Small Faces were famously conned out of a fortune.

..by Don Arden, who, as legend has it, went round their parents' houses and said that, if he paid them their royalties, they'd spend it all on drugs!

[ageing hammer]

Why do women wear nose rings?

Do they actually think it makes them look more attractive?

Cos most of them are cows :lol:

[WHU_Del]

In East London and Essex (and probably many other places), 'an' all' is often used to mean 'as well', as in 'You lot can sod off an' all'.
This is a different usage to meaning 'everyone', as in 'They all turned up! Yer Mum, yer Dad, yer sister, her kids, yer cousin and all', like the folk song that ends with 'Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all'.

So, how did this happen?

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

Why do professional sports which don't need physical strength, like bowls or darts for example, have separate men's and women's competitions?

[DasNutNock]

Why do professional sports which don't need physical strength, like bowls or darts for example, have separate men's and women's competitions?

Because sexism, patriarchy, toxic masculinity etc.

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

You've been watching that Victoria Derbyshire programme haven't you? BBC News channel, subtitled "All Men Are Bastards".

[ageing hammer]

Why do professional sports which don't need physical strength, like bowls or darts for example, have separate men's and women's competitions?

I have always wondered about that too,include snooker and chess as well

Surprised the women's rights groups are not after latching on to it yet.

[sendô]

It's because the women aren't as good at those "sports" either.

[Cuenca 'ammer]

It's because the women aren't as good at those "sports" either.

:lol: :lol:

Sendo you'll get me in trouble...I laughed at one of GCRO's failed gig posts one time too.....

:shock:

[warp]

It's because the women aren't as good at those "sports" either.

sexist. they are good at those sports.
just not as good as men...

[ageing hammer]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

How do we know, they have never played against men

[Crouchend_Hammer]

A very large factor in that is the said pop star's royalty position; if he or she has written a song that is

(a) covered
(b) enormously successful, or
(c) picked up by other media, especially film

then a lifelong income is not implausible.

I don't know either of them - but my mate was once in the music paper game - and Steve Coogan (the actor) had a brother in the Mock Turtles, something of a non-descript baggy band, of the early 90's.

This brother wrote Can You Dig It, ending up selling the rights to it, to an advertising company, and was made for life (mortgage-free gaff, and a modest income off the invested funds)

]

Great band and a superb song. Used to be a staple at Metro night club on Oxford Street along with Shall we a take a trip by North side