Noel tried to get to grips with the world of work
Why stars were so keen to give up their day jobs?
為什麼明星們都急於擺脫以往的工作?
The Independent - United Kingdom; Mar 9, 2001
BY DAVID LISTER MEDIA AND CULTURE EDITOR
BEFORE THEY were famous, Britain's best-known rock and pop stars
tried to get to grips with the world of work. It was a traumatic
experience.
Several of the most psychologically scarred rockers are interviewed
in the forthcoming edition of Q magazine.
The catering trade seems to have lured many a diva. The Brit award
winner Sonique until recently worked at the Burger King in
Piccadilly, London. After quitting her course at the Royal Academy of
Music in the Seventies, Annie Lennox took orders at Pippin's
restaurant in Hampstead where her fellow Eurythmic, Dave Stewart, was
a customer and proposed to her but they formed a duo instead.
#花蝴蝶瑪麗亞凱利做過超過 20 個女侍應生的工作
And America's stars were also not immune. Mariah Carey did at least
20 waitressing jobs in New York
and Deborah Harry once served beers
at a New York bar and also was a bunny girl at a Playboy Club.
#超級大痞子阿姆--廚師
Eminem, before he discovered hip hop, was a chef in a suburb of
Detroit. Clearly unimpressed, he tells Q: "At that point in my life I
had nothing. I felt like robbing somebody or selling drugs to get
myself out of the situation I was in."
#綠洲蓋勒格兄弟--建築工地的水泥廉價工
It could have been worse. The Gallagher brothers, pre-Oasis, worked
for their father's freelance concreting operation. "I hated
labouring," Noel tells Q, "I hated being on a building site in
January with my dad and with my brothers and two of my cousins and
two of my uncles and I hated the lot of them. We'd turn up in this
yellow Transit van, looking miserable. Then we'd argue all day so the
work didn't get done and we'd still be there at nine o'clock at
night."
#果漿主唱賈維斯考克--魚攤攤販
Jarvis Cocker of Pulp had a little more luck, running a fishmonger's
stall in Sheffield. "My mum got me the job when I was 17 in a drive
to make me more extrovert," he said.
The singer-songwriter David Gray used to be an artist producing
paintings after he graduated from Liverpool College of Art. "I wasn't
like a conceptual artist gluing toenail clippings to a piece of
board," he says. "My work was very painterly, very saleable."
Mathew Priest of Dodgy was a painter of a different variety, running
a painting and decorating outfit before becoming a porter at an
exclusive Harley Street clinic. Pete Devereux of Artful Dodger once
loaded lorries for a bedding company.
The vegetarian Paul Hartnoll of Orbital, perversely, took a job in
meat- packing. Not surprisingly, it didn't appeal. "When you cleaned
up," he recalls, "you'd find liver on the floor that had been there
for a week; it was like a jelly full of maggots."
He quickly moved on to doing dishes at a Pizza Piazza. That was more
fulfilling. "Yeah, it's great to be a washer-upper, you're in your
own little world, so when the waiters rage or cry because the
customers have been nasty to them, you can talk them down."
#史汀--老師
Sting, a former teacher, is quoted as saying: "I learnt timing,
rapport, how to talk to kids without making them think you're a jerk.
Well, the job of a teacher is to be human."
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Cheers!
Patsy "Gallagher"
--
If I may be so bold could I just say something
Come and make me my day
The clouds around your soul don't gather there for nothing
But I can chase them all away
--Oasis. The Girl In The Dirty Shirt
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