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Let's kill Jon.... and BON JOVI will be a legend.

I was joking, but it's (sadly) true.

Wouldn't work IMO. Dying makes you a legend when you're a popular RISING star (James Dean, Kurt Cobain...), or if you're already a part of legend (like Lennon), but then dying doesn't add much.
If Jon was to be killed or killed himself, it wouldn't change his fame that much, it would just be the end of Bon Jovi. If he had done it in 1990 then maybe, but now it's too late, he'll have to grow old and (try to) become a living legend, like Dylan, Springsteen or Jagger.

Ponrauil

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I agree with you on most points mate but YOU'VE CERTAINLY GOT IT WRONG ABOUT THE BEATLES. Have you any idea what they did? What all the pop-rock seen became after them? Find out for yourself but FIND OUT AND THINK![/quote]

Thesedays2003,

The Beatles are overrated. Their lyrics are mind-numbingly (and sometimes agonizingly) simplistis and their chords are genuinly BORING. (And no, I don't wanna hold your hand, hold your hand, hold your hand hold your hand....blah blah blah now quit waving it in my face before I chop it off here comes the sun dootndooty here...oh God, sun, burn my ears so I don't have to listen to this) That's what happens when drugs become the singular or paramount inspiration for your craft. Ask any real artist. Look at drug art, it all becomes the same. And, no, I can't define "artist." So if you're gonna blow a hole in my argument, go right ahead. Free shot

Pop music is simply that, "popular" for the time. It's aura will not be widely accepted in the future because it is set in the past. And sure, when people go through history books, they will find the beatles within the confines of pop rock culture of the 60's, but eventually that will be all. Their simplicity may be their allure, but it is also their downfall. It is the Achille's heal which drew humanity toward them, but it is most definitly their tragic flaw. Much like the Stones who capitalized on a war at hand and came out on top. They were not the best of their kind, and they certainly weren't any different, and the vocals were often truly terrible and painfully stretched compared to many others, but they played their part and earned their spot in the confines of popmusic history for the 60s and 70s. But by no means will they transcend history and time.

That takes true innovation and passion and understanding and discovery and well...a damn gift from God heh heh The foundations of transcendance is discovery...it is the capitalization of knowledge

The Beatles aim was much lower. The Beatles capitalized on a popculture of the time (drugs and free love and peace and all that). But eventually that pop culture becomes outdone and overdone and burned out. The fizzlers spark on and call it Rolling Stone Magazine and pretend the rest of the world hasn't rolled on. But sorry, Rolling Stone magazine is a joke. It has been eroded to a grain of sand in the winds of time. It has become a satire of itself and the time which brought it into existance.

Pop music will never be spoken of as classical. It isn't meant to be. It's also not a bad thing. It is what it is.

Simply enjoyed

B