So, who's your hero? Pick One Only!

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It's time for heroes
Vote for the rock star that changed your world
Who is the music legend who changed your life? Who is top dog in your Rock'N'Roll hall of fame? Whose musical contributions will last forever?

Do legends like John Lennon, Bob Dylan, David Bowie or Elvis Presley inspire you, or do you look up to Morrissey, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Rotten and Liam Gallagher?

Or perhaps the new crop of artists like Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, Pete Doherty, Jack White or Alex Kapranos mean more to you?

NME wants to know who your heroes are.

Simply send in the name of your hero, along with your name and contact details to [email protected], and a few lines explaining what makes them so special to you.

The best comments will be included in an upcoming special edition of NME, out soon.

Funny, Bob Dylan being part of the link name, but not the story. Subliminal?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Errr...

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:25 (twenty years ago)

Dammit!

Do legends like John Lennon, Bob Dylan, David Bowie or Elvis Presley inspire you, or do you look up to Morrissey, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Rotten and Liam Gallagher?

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:26 (twenty years ago)

OK, mentioned in passing then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Pete Docherty in the top 5. I'll bet my trilby on it.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if any women or black people etc.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:30 (twenty years ago)

steve got there first!

i would vote for paris hilton.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:31 (twenty years ago)

First NME article not to mention heroine chic surprise...

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Heroine Chic Surprise

Now there's a girl group waiting to happen.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Heroine Chick Surprise. I'll alert my sisX0r.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:43 (twenty years ago)

diamanda galas... without a doubt.

secondly would be siouxsie and liz fraser, they have to share a pedastal, but hey, things could be worse. third would be mark clifford.

― ehbenoit, Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Mick Ronson, the one and only.

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Mike Watt is the dude.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

NME too cheap to pay for its market research.

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LS1RkIMwi-A&search=charles%20barkley

― gear (gear), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Shiina Ringo.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

The readership isn't that high. If we all work together, we can get Ol' Dirty Bastard to number 1.

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

NME too cheap to pay for its market research.
-- Ricky Nadir (noodle_vagu...) (webmail), Saturday 11:32 PM. (later) (link)

Funnily, this thought occurred to me as I perused the "Tribute to Kurt" 3CD 'interview' box set in HMV today.

Whoever wins this gets their image on a new batch of t-shirts with their face on down the market the weekend after.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

....I wonder if any women or black people...

see, Nina Simone.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Nina Simone was a fucking legend, but I'm not sure that she's a great heroine, if any of the comments and actions attributed to her in later years are accurate.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

kalyani kutapan

― camden2000, Monday, 24 April 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Yoko Ono

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Drumm roll, keith!

1. Kurt Cobain.
2. Pete Doherty
3. Morrissey
4. Liam
5. Carlos

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

6. Thom
7. Noel
8. Bowie
9. Ian Brown
10. Ian Curtis

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

11. Zzzzzzz

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

careometer.tif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Wot, no Momus? Must rob more houses or commit more suicide.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

pleaes do the latter ASAP, you pretentious jerk off.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

At least I can spell, smelly poo!

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

This thread has been locked by the teacher.

― The teacher (Momus), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

being a pretentious jerk off appears to be criterion #1 anyway.

well done the plucky white man with guitar in the face of so much adversity and hardship.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Carlos who? Santana?

(I don't really want to know the answer. Just wanted to make it clear how out of touch I am)

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

John Ford Coley...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

carlos? wendy carlos?

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00210/carlos_quieroz_og_a_210231c.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Interpol or Libertine?

How white. How male. How... dadrock.

― Vernon Jackson (kate), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

That's how they sell their ad space.

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

wendy carlos?

Bun E.!??

Nah.....I think he means that other tie-wearing, truncated-name-bearing Carlos

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Santana gets the props at last.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Elvis was a hero to most...

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

First person to say "Noel Edmonds?" gets.. I dunno.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

11. Richey Manic
12. Jack White
13. Joe Strummer
14. Matt Bellamy (Muse)
15. Axl Rose

I dunno, I feel like I should keep going 'till I find someone of good hero stock. It's not happening yet..

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4760767.stm

NME have a 'problem' with their readership's vote of the number two...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

shameless turnaround from them. makes them look even more clueless and reactionary. hope it alienates the readership further.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Cash
Kris Kristofferson

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

NME suddenly realizes what it's done, puts out own eyes in shame.

― sixteen sergeants, Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Number 46. Johnny Cash

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Somebody should h4x0r the nme's site, and sneakily replace their choices with:

1 peter hammill
2 robert calvert
2 jon anderson
4 shirley collins
5 dolly collins
6 florian fricke
7 virginia astley
8 mark e smith
9 cosey fanni tutti
10 chris carter

etc etc etc

ie motherfuckers who fucking mean/meant it, not posturing cocks.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Hammill on cover of NME every week = best paper evah.

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

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