Library Rock's Backpages

Kevin Coyne

John Tobler, ZigZag, July 1971

"WHEN I WAS very young, a fat-arsed bingo club manager said: 'You're going to the top, right to the top, and I am going to take you there, all the way'. He was the first in a long line of promise-makers, the first of the smart alecs. How many other performers have had this? I suppose most of them have. They are everywhere — 10 (and sometimes 25) per centers, bearing lists of imaginary contracts, introductions to famous people, and ideas about 'making it big'. Most of the times their sights are set on pin money, on extra cash for their suburban families, their big spending wives. They're small time, greedy and dangerous. And small time men become big time...

"What do they care about creativity and commitment?"

Total word count of piece: 3904

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.