Jim Driver - The Mammoth Book of Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll

Jim Driver is a music promoter, journalist, author and publisher. He runs the Rhythm Festival, as well as a weekly club night at Londons 100 Club.

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First published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson, 2001

This revised and updated edition published in 2010.

Copyright Jim Driver, 2001, 2010 (unless otherwise indicated)

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ROCK N ROLL ALMANAC

Cant Help Falling in Love
DOOMED ROCK N ROLL MARRIAGES

Dead End Street 1. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
SUDDEN DEATH

2. Dont Leave Me This Way
DEATH BY THEIR OWN HAND

3. Zoom
PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES

4. (Youre The) Devil In Disguise
DEATH BY DRINK AND DRUGS

5. Dont Go Near The Water
DEATH BY DROWNING

6. Jailhouse Rock
BRUSHES WITH THE LAW AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Is all my brain and body need

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Are very good indeed

Adding the word sex to drugs and rock n roll is a combination that has become a part of the English language. As integral as salt and pepper, fish and chips and Holland-Dozier-Holland. It is popularly believed that Ian Dury coined the phrase for the 1977 single of the same name, quoted above, but sources close to the late, great lyricist suggest he was reporting, rather than coining.

I am not a saint. I am a noise. Joan Baez

Dr Bernard James claims that the phrase was used by Christian fundamentalist preacher and cousin to Jerry Lee Lewis Jimmy Swaggart in broadcasts he made in the late 1960s on WLUX, Baton Rouge but not in a nice way. Sadly, no recordings exist. Similarly, Maria Weitz of The Hague, in the Netherlands, says that she remembers Ike and Tina Turner singing it as a chorus in a show, in the very early 1970s.

You could say that I got into music for the sex. I never harboured a burning desire to sing my heart out or be a star. So when I was fifteen it was a big surprise to be suddenly asked to join a rock band. The invitation was extended by the lead singer in a desperate move to seduce me. Until his request I considered him a complete arsehole... Then I heard him sing. I can still remember turning my head in shock and horror, thinking, He has the most beautiful voice. I quickly fell in lust, and as he was very keen on me, I joined his band and shortly thereafter his bed. Shirley Manson, Garbage

Only the prudish would deny that sex, drugs and rock n roll make a winning team. In the right hands the combination is explosive. In the wrong hands, its a killer. Inevitably a good proportion of this book is concerned with what happens when things do go wrong. The deaths, the addictions, the injuries, the ego-trips and the degradations of rock n roll are the flip-side of a phenomenon thats altered the course of modern history. If Woodstock is the ying, then Altamont is the yang. What starts out as a dream can quickly become a nightmare, especially with chemicals altering perceptions, but for every Janis or Jimi or Sid there are a million who crave the lifestyle, and its easy to see why.

I could be unbelievably horrible and stupid. On tours, Id get on a plane, then get off it, maybe six or eight times. Id walk out of a hotel suite because I didnt like the colour of the bedspread. I remember looking out of my room at the Inn on the Park one day and saying, Its too windy. Can someone please do something about it? Elton John