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She is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.
- Morrissey, on Madonna
Her voice sounded like an eagle being goosed.
- Ralph Novak, on Yoko Ono
If I found her floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.
- Joan Rivers, on Yoko Ono
The Band is now basically a T-Shirt selling machine. Jumping Jack Flash no more
- more like Limping Hack Flash.
- Julie Burchill, on The Rolling Stones
A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female
teenagers and bred field mice.
- Mark Coleman, on Duran Duran
Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he
sounded just like Yogi Bear.
- Mike Ronson, on Bob Dylan
He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J.
- Ian Gittins, on Art Garfunkel
The biggest no-talent I ever worked with.
- Paul Cohen, on Buddy Holly
Is he just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
- Freddie Mercury, on Billy Idol
He's a great singer - but he's not the most masculine guy, is he?
- Alexander O'Neal, on Michael Jackson
I couldn't stand Janis Joplin's voice. . .She was just a screaming little
loudmouthed chick.
- Arthur Lee, on Janis Joplin
A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat.
- John Simon, on Barbra Streisand
All legs and hair with a mouth that could swallow the whole stadium and the
hot-dog stand.
- Laura Lee Davies, on Tina Turner
Her voice sounded like an eagle being goosed.
- Ralph Novak, on Yoko Ono
You walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Rolling Stones perform and
suddenly the Chicago Stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.
- Tom Fitzpatrick, on The Rolling Stones
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that
ridiculous Jamaican accent.
- Elvis Costello, on Sting
'Henry the Eighth' - It would be cheaper, and no more unpleasant, to record
yourself in the shower while holding your nose.
- Dave Marsh, on Herman's Hermits
At worst, soporific; at best, pleasantly soporific.
- New Musical Express, on The Temptations
He moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
- Truman Capote, on Mick Jagger |
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