Hello there ! Been coming here from a few months and did not registered so far though there were already some threads I would have been intererested in participating but did not. Now I really thought it was time to as I have read the article you posted and one information makes me wonder.... and it is one of the elements you have stressed on : when that thing with jon's daughter occurred, I thought I did read he was somewhere, in the US, in California maybe if I remember it well. Therefore, even if it is not the place just at the corner, he was not abroad as it is mentioned there.... if I got it wrong, then ok, but if indeed he was in the US and not abroad, that shows once again that press is always trying to impact on people opinion by writing what they want, true or not..... that article is clearly pro richie against jon, all facts given are on that same level. It is just sad, boring, disappointing not to have real facts so that we can make our own decision, our own opinion. When you read contradictory information from an article to another, it is clear that press is trying to influence you or just do not have true elements to write and thus they invent anything to sell. That all battle between both men supporters is just so childish. Maybe some day their behaviour will appear as childish as that fan boards litterature .....but then what I read in that article makes me boil inside....
Then if I should trust what are reported as richie's words, he waited for 30 years, he swallowed his doubts, his unsatisfaction for 30 years ... poor little humble guy, who does not pay attention to what golden things all that money can bring him, who never wears expensive things, who always kept his private life away from the public eye, who has sacrified himself by refusing wonderful opportunities to let his boss shine ..... so pathetic ! I do hope this is all press bullshit, I do really hope my guitar god richie has not said all that shit... they probably argued, but in a more grown up way I hope....