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David Bowie (1947-2016)
There’s been a lot of hype about David Bowie, but at the end of the day he was a pop singer. We were arguing with this woman who came into the shop insisting he was a true artist. If anyone else had done the kind of drawings he did they wouldn’t have got anywhere. He was a rubbish actor too. When people say he created loads of trends they’re talking claptrap. If he’d have worn his glam rock seventies gear in the sixties they would have called him a nutcase. If he’d have worn them in the eighties people would have called him a saddo and told him to move on. We saw his gig at Rock City in 1997, though, and he was very good.
Lemmy from Motorhead (1945-2015)
We didn’t know much about him to be honest. The best thing he ever did was Silver Machine, which is a brilliant song. But we’re not too familiar with the rest of their music.
Alan Rickman (1946 – 2016)
This is the saddest one of the lot for us. He was a marvellous actor. He did a lot of Shakespeare and he was excellent in The Barchester Chronicles. He went to RADA, you know. We weren’t a fan of the Robin Hood film he was in, though. We liked the one with Errol Flynn much more.
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