The Beatle Invasion

10 Musicians I Wouldn’t Want to Switch Places With

by gisrael on February 6th, 2008

Arjun from The Good Musician is hosting a fun list post. Here’s my contribution. Check this space soon for links to the other b5music posts.

Living

1. Pete Best - fired from The Beatles right before they hit it huge, this guy did shift work loading bread into delivery vans for £8 a week. Later he became a civil servant. Pete finally made some real money 33 years later when his role on some of the tracks of Anthology netted him upwards of £1 million.

2. Britney Spears - I don’t exactly consider her to be a musician, but it can’t be fun being extremely messed up in an extremely public way.

3. Michael Jackson - hopefully frightening enough to scare away small children.

4. Jose Carreras - while highly successful as one of "The Three Tenors", because of Seinfeld he will always be known as "the other guy".

5. Julian Lennon - John Lennon’s first child from his first wife Cynthia, Julian was neglected while his parents’ marriage fell apart. Later, he would see John’s very public very close relationship with half-brother Sean while John barely maintained any contact with Julian.

"I had a great deal of anger towards Dad because of his negligence and his attitude to peace and love, that peace and love never came home to me." - Julian Lennon

Dead

1. Linda McCartney - she had zero musical talent but Paul thrust her on stage anyway. Oh yeah, and cancer sucks too.

2. Kurt Cobain - just one of many musical geniuses that battled drug and relationship problems and died young. But Kurt also had scoliosis and a chronic stomach condition that gave him intense pain throughout his brief life.

3. Mama Cass Elliot - forever known as "the fat one" from The Mamas & the Papas, she is remembered for dying at the age of 33 of an apparent ham sandwich. That’s just  not kosher.

4. Ludwig van Beethoven - going deaf is never good for a musician’s career. He was suicidal, had chronic abdominal pain, and had no luck with women.

5. Elvis Presley - on top of the world in his heyday, he petered off as a complete mess. Overweight, pumped up on drugs, and playing a parody of himself in Las Vegas, he died on the toilet.

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