If every era gets the rock stars it deserves, Winston Marshall is perfect for 2021. He’s just quit his band after being upset by the online reaction to his praise for a right-wing book. Jimi Hendrix must be spinning in his grave.
Rock n’ roll is dead, dead and buried. And its obituary has now been written…by the banjo-playing son of a billionaire.
It was inevitable, I suppose. Rock gods cannot exist in the smug and suffocating, safe environment of the modern middle classes. Especially in Britain. Plus social media is just too pervasive and toxic, it invades all orifi….
