Snow Patrol keyboardist Tom Simpson’s recent court no-show – he failed to turn up on 31 July to face a cocaine possession charge – robbed us of the chance to witness the soft-rocker squirm under questioning. It is, after all, always amusing when rock/pop stars face the long arm of the law…
Pete Doherty
Doherty appears at West London Magistrates’ Court so often he might as well move in. This footage was shot in May 2007. “It’s rehab or jail,” summarised the ex-Libertine after the hearing. Predictably, he ended up going to neither.
R Kelly
Having missed the planned start of the trial on February 7 thanks to a “burst appendix”, Kelly will have to wait until next month to face charges of sex with a minor. The jury will be shown a home sex tape which purports to show Kelly urinating on a 14-year-old girl. Yet, weirdly, thanks to the enduring, so-bad-its-good popularity of his ongoing Trapped In The Closet ‘hip-hop-era’, Kelly is currently more popular than he’s been for a decade.
Morrissey
“Devious, truculent and unreliable.” That was how a High Court Judge described Morrissey in November 1998, shortly after awarding Smiths drummer Mike Joyce £1 million in disputed royalties. Morrissey was understandably furious, but spare a thought for poor bassist Andy Rourke, who’d settled out of court with Moz in 1989 and received just £83,000.
Elton John
In 2000 Elton John brought a lawsuit against the MD of his former management company. While being questioned on his spending habits John admitted that between 1996 and 1997 he’d spent £293,000 on flowers alone. Asked by the High Court Judge to defend his staggering profligacy, the Queen Mum of pop said simply: “I like flowers.”
5:58 PM | 10/08/2007
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