examples of people that wouldnt be as famous(idolised) now if they were alive

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

1- john lennon.

yes i bloody love him, but i think of it like this. if mccartney had died instead he would be seen as a great musician(more so than he is) and if lennon was still alive would he be seen as mccartney is now?

2- JFK. again only famous cos he got killed innit.

3-martin luther king perhaps?

4-kurt cobain?

i expect some argument on all of these but i think the biscuit was taken when lennon made it into the top ten greatest britons of all time. i mean, HOW?

 

[Trufflehound]

Jesus?

 

[Les Biehn]

James Dean
Marilyn Monroe

 

[dwayne]

2pac

 

[dwayne]

actually...pretty much any dead rapper!

 

[Les Biehn]

Dwayne

 

[scooter1]

Sid Vicious

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Diana.

I noticed one of the Diana-fanatic newspapers was bristling with indignation yesterday as there is apparently a patch of green algae growing in the Diana memorial fountain thing. They seem to be suggesting that this is somehow an insult to her memory.

Drunk students regularly stick traffic cones on the statue of Queen Victoria in the Old Steine, but I can't recall a whole page in the Express about it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Dodi Fayed

 

[Cian]

Ian Curtis. Doubt the other members of teh band would be as famous now either, come to think of it...

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

I agree strongly with you about Kurt Cobain, despite my love of Nirvana, he was never a 'rock god' as so many people have labelled him.

 

[FamilyGuy]

1- john lennon.

yes i bloody love him, but i think of it like this. if mccartney had died instead he would be seen as a great musician(more so than he is) and if lennon was still alive would he be seen as mccartney is now?

2- JFK. again only famous cos he got killed innit.

3-martin luther king perhaps?

4-kurt cobain?

i expect some argument on all of these but i think the biscuit was taken when lennon made it into the top ten greatest britons of all time. i mean, HOW?

Martin Luther King - possibly the best human being that ever lived - we all we a lot to him and his supporters

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Rod Hull

 

[pasty]

Elvis

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Elvis

ah cant believe i forgot him! obvious.

churchill is over rated in my opinion, not because he is dead, just generally.

 

[supaseagull]

The bloke out of Joy Division
James Dean
Hitler
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King
Kurt Cobain

 

[Yorkie]

JFK was already looked up to for standing up to the Russians over the Cuban missile crisis and Martin Luther King for the civil rights movement.
They would have been thought of in a similar way to Nelson Mandela now.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

JFK was already looked up to for standing up to the Russians over the Cuban missile crisis and Martin Luther King for the civil rights movement.
They would have been thought of in a similar way to Nelson Mandela now.

i agree with luther king.

but i just cant see it being the same with jfk.

 

[ezmally]

Jeff Buckley?

 

[Yorkie]

i agree with luther king.

but i just cant see it being the same with jfk.

He was considered a hero for calling the Russian's bluff. They had to withdraw their nuclear missiles from Cuba.