Fantasy Conversation

[Rude Boy]

If you could meet and talk to any person, alive or dead, for ten minutes who would it be?

For me I would have loved to have met Keith Moon and, given this fantasy scenario, I would ask him for some anecdotes from his incredible life and sign off by asking him if his fatal overdose was a tragic mistake or, as is debated, suicide. Oh Moonie we mish you so much!

It could be anyone throughout history, alive or dead. You've got ten minutes with them, over to you....

[steve56]

jim morrison,jimi hendrix,keith moon,ian curtis,certain girls in sweeney eps and saints ,joan collins.

[Rude Boy]

Ian Curtis, good answer. I'd just ask him, "Why?"

[Pervert]

Too many to choose from, Rudey.

I'd like to question Lee Harvey Oswald for ten minutes---find out just who he was working for and why. Still don't think he killed Kennedy, but he could provide a few clues as to who did.

Not sure asking suicides why they killed themselves would be productive. Don't think Moonie was a suicide---he just shone too bright for too short a time.

[The Last Word]

Orwell.

[MegaTon]

Rude Boy wrote:

> Ian Curtis, good answer. I'd just ask him, "Why?"


I think he couldn't cope with the illness he had that's why he did it.

And that last album he did for Joy Division ' Closer ' is a really
depressing to listen too i can tell you!

[Rude Boy]

"Not sure asking suicides why they killed themselves would be productive. Don't think Moonie was a suicide---he just shone too bright for too short a time."

I agree totally but if I could I'd ask him if the overdose was accidental or intentional as it's something that's always bothered me. I'd like to think it was accidental as his life appeared to be on an up at the time he died but he was such a complex bloke I don't know what to think. The biography of Keith Moon, entitled "Dear Boy", is truly a great piece of work. It is comprehensive, fascinating, amusing and sometimes disturbing. It pulls no punches but is overall a brilliant insight into the too-short life of this fantastic entertainer and the ending is very poignant indeed.

[mart]

Theodore Xenophon Stephanides.

Mart

[roshambo]

Closer is a thing of beauty ,
i recommend it ,
Curtis was destined to do what he did .
but yeah i'd like to ask why too

[Rude Boy]

"The Eternal" from Closer is my personal favourite track by Joy Division, either that or the classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart." I suppose all the clues to what Ian Curtis would eventually do were there in the lyrics.

His widow, Deborah Curtis, wrote a very moving book about his life entitled, "Touching From a Distance." It is extremely good and includes lots of unfinished lyrics and works in progress which are fascinating.