This is Jon’s smartest moments, it is the best thing he has ever said though it needs translating. What he is saying is this: being a rock star, if you don’t take it too seriously, is a good life. But even a good job can’t protect you from life itself.
Always on TV, always on the road, can’t go for a stroll in the park without a world of people demanding his time. You are one of many, the most important relationship of a young girls world is devastated thru absence and otherworldly fame. Forget about an Elektra complex, it is a haunting bizarre nightmare for a child.
In 1957 Rolf wrote “Tie Me Kangaroo Down”, the story of a dying man in the Australian outback, telling his friends how to take care of the animals he leaves behind. The rhymes are really clever and for a depressing concept, the rhymes come at you with a smile that lessons the bite. In 1963 he covered “Stairway To Heaven” and it became a hit in the UK!
Oddly, Madonna isn’t playing “Superstar” on this tour and Lourdes isn’t joining her on the hallowed ground… still, in ten years time Madonna will be in her 60s? Lourdes? 25…
