“Growing up in Wolverhampton, Stephanie Phillips says she was initially pretty much into the same chart music as her friends.
But alongside TLC, Aaliyah and Destiny’s Child, she developed a passion for rock, indie and punk.
“It was music that meant a lot to me as someone who was very shy and needed an outlet,” she said. Yet she felt compelled to keep that passion hidden.
“There was always this idea that black people weren’t really into alternative music, or punk,” the musician, journalist and author told the BBC.
“When I first got into alternative music I felt like I was betraying my race, and had to keep my love of rock practically secret,” she writes in her new book.”
“Black recalled that a famous 1980 photograph of her alongside Debbie Harry, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex and other leading female artists, featured on the cover of New Music News magazine, was billed as representing “the women in rock”.
“And I suppose they needed a couple of black women in there as well,” she said.
“But it was interesting they couldn’t put one woman on the cover.”…
Even today, Phillips argues black artists were often forgotten, overlooked or deliberately excluded.
She cites Nova Twins, who took out a bank loan to record their debut album which received rave reviews but they still struggled to find a label, she said.
The issue is personal, she added, recalling the challenges of securing support for Big Joanie’s early releases.
“You do have to work harder. It can be exhausting.”…
Yes it’s vital that this immense conspiracy to suppress blek music is exposed and artistes compensated for this hideous outrage..
Or maybe it’s all in your head luv because you are a mental and your music was shit?
Nominated by : Unkle Terry
Do blacks ever stop finding racism everywhere they go?
They must be disappointed when their day goes by without anything that they deem racist happening to them.
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Or, does the BBC ever stop promoting such mither and misery? There are forces that seem to strive to create these impressions.
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The Tavistock Institute for one.
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Siouxsie Sioux is my favourite female rock artiste, I think she is of Native American descent so not raycist.
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I think her real name is Shy Anne.
🪶🪶
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Or maybe Cherry Key.
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I think Siouxsie’s swastika wearing phase (on both arms for well over a year) and her ‘Too many Jews for my liking’ remark might show otherwise.😉
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She must have missed Musical Yoot having a massive number one with a song encouraging teens to become druggies.
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What about Pepsi and Shirley?
They were blek.
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Shirley wasn’t black, I think she married Martin Kemp.
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Kemp…whose brother Gary Kemp is a massive cunt.
I don’t mind a bit of Spandau Ballet when I’m in the mood, but for the love of Buddha, what the fuck does this lyric mean from their song, Instinction?
“Post boom second doom
Stealing cake to eat the moon”
Dear oh dear.
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Gary Kemp wrote some dreadful lyrics…
‘She used to be a diplomat. But now she’s down the laundromat.’
‘Take your seaside arms and write the next line.’
Gary Kemp knows his Floyd. You wouldn’t think so, but he does. He plays all Syd and Dave’s parts in Nick Mason’s band.
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Oh deary me, Norm.
One can only speculate what seaside arms are.
I’ve watched/read several interviews with Tony Hadley over the years. He seems a decent and honest enough bloke. He never quite comes out and says it, but you can tell he wants to say, “…and yeah, Gary Kemp is a stroppy, opinionated, disruptive, self-obsessed, up-his-own-arse cunt of ocean going proportions”.
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Skinheads used to like Reggae music.
Motown was big when I was a kid.
I remember going to see The Four Tops and The Temptations, plenty of other black bands too.
There is no racism in music.
Either an artist is talented or not.
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Stephanie is full of shite and a professional victim.
Don Letts was a integral part of early punk and filmed the fledgling punk scene.
He says himself he faced no racism.
Poly Styrene seemed to be accepted she was mixed race,
Annabella Lwin was Burmese,
Helen of Troy was a midget she was accepted.
Maybe stop looking for racism and it’ll not impede you Stephanie?
you chippy moaning cunt.
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https://youtu.be/uoifB3e_ZhM?is=jCnbGf-eOca8ryqM
my favourite X-ray spex tune.
she was ace.
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The Clash were connected to Don Letts and they also immersed themselves in the reggae scene of the time. Mick Jones and Don Letts formed the group B.A.D.
John Lydon and PiL were also friends of Don Letts
The punks and the rastas were friends in that scene.
And, there was the major multi racial band of the era, the Specials.
The late Terry Hall (RIP) would have put this Stephanie and her chippy bullshit ight.
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Al Jolson did fucking well too. All this shit that you can’t get ahead when you’re a tarmac.
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Very true Dave.
Being black hasn’t held Gary Linekunt back either.
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Dai Francis was another black star. A favourite of my Nan’s.
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Black music is awesome or at least it was,Wonder,Withers.Isleys,Four tops…many more but Rap is in my view a very satanic construct.
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I agree, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong – fantastic. Also a later name that was truly great, Michael Jackson. Of course he is cancelled despite being not guilty.
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🎶What a state I’m in
My self pitying
Here’s another victim singing
suffering🎶
When the asteroid finally wipes out the human species, that will be racist to.
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https://youtu.be/vbYkz5CBMas?is=r8UerqPH5AMaPfjX
Negro Terror.
Tell him he’s oppressed Stephanie.
hes angry enough as it is.
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Jesus H, these folks are ugly Mis.
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yeah, to me they all are.
I can’t tell the difference between him and Whitney Houston.
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Same, Mis. I was all the way through the 30 secs I could stomach just waiting for him to say ‘Whatyu talkin’ bout, Willis?’…
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Huggy Bear was cool.
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He was a police informant.
a grass.
But yeah, he was cool,
the jive talking, pimp dressing ,
little muddafucker.😄
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Bad Brains, Living Colour and Body count never existed?
The soundtrack to judgement night with the whole rock / rap crossover is also racist, because she says so.
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I remember Body Count. Definitely a black rock or even metal band, although the themes tended to be about victimhood, how unfair life is, and the same thuggishness that is evident in rap music. Metallica were just as bad though on the first two. It’s all: war is bad, sorrow and misery, and it’s all so unfair.
These must’ve been some of the themes being promoted by record companies at the time for the plebs to indulge in.
I prefer Iron Maiden who, besides being far more musically talented and pleasing than any other metal band, were much more orientated towards themes of power, fantasy and things mythical, as opposed to ‘ain’t life on earth such a hard luck story’ (performed by scruffy cunts earning millions of dollars).
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Iron Maiden are awesome.
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The daughter of one of my electrical engineers is their accountant.
Apparently really good guys to work for. Very thoughtful and generous to a fault.
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The lead singer was a pilot for British Midland and seems to be quite an interesting all rounder.
It’s that English eccentrism that you get with certain bands like Maiden, and many others I could mention. Queen would be another example. Most of the progressive rockers, but others too. A bit weird, a degree of humbleness considering their fame, high intelligence and skill. The yanks had it with the likes of Zappa and Beefheart, but I think it comes more naturally to the English.
As for the blacks, any honest racist will admit that they are, on average, good at music, dancing and sports. Many great black artists, no doubt about that. The person in the nom is barking up the wrong tree. It’s 15 mins of fame for the whinging slag.
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Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, et cetera et cetera et cetera … ?
🎸
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Dockstader#/media/File:Coon_Coon_Coon_sheet_music_cover_1901.jpg
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Maginificent.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaj7FNHnjQ&list=RDPIaj7FNHnjQ&start_radio=1&pp=ygUJYWwgam9sc29uoAcB
Let’s not forget the magnificent Al Jolson.
Way ahead of his time,an overlooked pioneer of the Blek Music.
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Musical style/content like much else is down to individual preferences.
Want a list of my favourite bands? Of course you don’t.
But a short statement of fact instead. While neither artist is in a band of which I cared enough to amass their entire discography, on voice alone I find Meat Loaf and Skunk Anansie’s Skin my 2 most powerful examples.
One? .. An overweight caucasian ugly heterosexual male ; the other a skinny tall ugly black lesbian woman.
But boy, can/could they hit the notes. In their prime, anyhow.
Could whatever cunt was whingeing in the nom link define my view on race from that? Shouldn’t. Would probably go with ‘racist’ anyways. Like her fucking opinion matters a single solitary jot. Same for anyone talking shit, I suppose.
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you forgot sweaty.
if Meatloaf was anything he was sweaty.
your spot on though 👌
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oh yezh! .. the always hankie dab .. 🙂
My first love gig was Meat loaf when I was 14.
Have a gander at the setlist.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/meat-loaf/1990/community-centre-moate-ireland-5b88ef08.html
‘Show stopped due to riot’
A rowdy start to my concert experiences.
I’ve seen less jig-acting at Obituary gigs since 😄
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^ oh yeah, and live gig.🙄
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All the world’s a racist. Ain’t that a cunt
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Another fucking blick crying about being blick and it’s not her fault for liking ‘white’ music.
Stick to your own shit, rap crap calling everyone N’gga
The more you see/hear about this sort of shit the more you think… why?
PS, it’s Black History Month (again)
PS, Ps, there is an Ad on ITV (sponsoring ITV programmes) A Shkoda car returning a family of pavement apes to their natural environment, surprised it hasn’t been flagged as racist.
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Arthur Lee.
drummer in the Dead Kennedys.
Bad Brains.
is she fuckin blind or just ignorant?
Although black people are first to get uppity if a white lad goes into rap.
That vanilla ice
I remember that Ice T,
saying
” what’s that about?!
hes singing about coming from the street!
the street?
what streets he from?
Sesame street?!! 😄
made me laugh
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What the fuck is he talking about?
Robert Matthew Van Winkle is as ghetto as it gets.
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I think so LL.
jealousy.
Bobby van winky had great hair.
they couldn’t compete what with having a Barnet akin to a fuckin brillo pad.
why they wear baseball caps.
embarrassed
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Jıgs do look funny with baseball caps perched precariously on their afros:
https://share.google/gMgmT2BikfeC5MU6z
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Black people, go back to Africa. You’ll be happier.
Pakistani people, go back to Pakistan. You’ll be happier.
Muslim people, go back to Muslim land. You’ll be happier.
Eastern European people, go back to Eastern Europe you’ll be happier.
PIKEY people, go back to PIKEY land. You’ll be happier.
More importantly if you do, white British people will be fucking ecstatic …!
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she should be into black Sabbath surely I know they’re down the road from Brum but come on all black country folk together for racial harmony ….’i am racist man’ 🎶🎸…
I quite like howlin’ wolf, he reminds me of the lot of them….aawooooooh 🐺
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FFS, these ethnic cunts think there in the river Ganges…🤬
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When I was in Australia in 2012, to see the Stone Roses on their reunion tour, some uppity skank treeswinging rap slag named Azelia Banks (I think that’s what the bitch was called) accused the band of being racist, and that the group were ‘saggy white men’.
Well, for a start, the Roses drummer – the great Reni – is mixed race. And, so is their roadie and guitar tech Steve Cressa. Second, they have a long and colourful history of fights against the NF. Ian Brown and Mani (God rest his soul) loathed the NF and had many brawls against them when they were young scooter boys. You couldn’t get a more anti racist band than the Roses.
Banks backtracked and said ‘I thought I heard someone tell me that they heard one of the band call me a n!gg*r.’ In other words, she never heard anything at all.
Thing is with these thick black fuckers is don’t think and do any research. They think they can automatically scream ‘racist’ and be automatically believed. Now, some leftie thicko mongs will lap the race card bleating up every time. But this Poundland wollygog whore accusing the Stone Roses of racism backfired spectacularly. Banks is like the Ian Wright of music. A nauseating black loudmouth, who shouts a lot and plays the race card when she doesn’t get her way. Thee classic uppity shouty feisty back caricature, who talks shit and acts aggressive because it’s the only thing the stupid cunts can do.
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it was me.
I called her a ni993r.
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As Roy Walker used to say in the gameshow “Catchprase”,
“Say what you see”.
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Ffs is there anything in the fucking universe that ain’t racist, transphobic, kiddy diddler phobic or some other bollocks that some wanker hasn’t thought up yet?
What with liebour, peacefuls, polwankski, care for Calais and the woke destroying everything I hold dear, whilst making out that anyone who thinks like me is to the right of that legendary humanist Adolf. Well, fight or fuck it that’s the question.
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I did see the Black and White minstrels at the palace theatre back in the early seventies. ” Free tickets”
Girlfriend at the time was not impressed..😂
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Manchester
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I wonder if Phil Lynot ever pondered the racist bigotry of rock music whilst fucking Leslie Crowther’s daughter?
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Most likely not.
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It’s strange that Pauline Black never mentioned anything about racism back in the days when she was a leading member of the Two-Tone movement.
A movement and record label that was predominantly marketed as a stable of mixed race bands, such as the Special’s and The Selecter.
Perhaps she didn’t give a shit back then because the money was rolling in.
And she suddenly remembers how terrible it all was now that it isn’t.
Fuck off!
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Talking of The Specials.
Lynval Golding has been banging on since the death of Chicken George about the racist bigotry of white man.
Presumably the same white man that made him wealthy enough not to have to bother getting a real job for the rest of his life.
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yeah, fuck him the whining cunt.
And Jerry Dammers.
Never mind ” free Nelson Mandela ”
the little tramp should never of got out of nick.
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https://youtu.be/BF3NnFruoWQ?is=pLIXDPqag5LhqbEd
ooh good call!
Let’s have some Thin Lizzy
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I’ma going with this today in honour of the subject of this nom.
https://youtu.be/0itOCgJtNVU
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catchy! 👍
stuck in my head now.
singing that all day tomorrow
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Thin Lizzy is fat phobic, you disgusting bigot.
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Whites are the best at music. Blacks second. Curryheads, slavs, sandwōgs and chînks are shit. The attention seeking arsehole in the nom is talking shit. Blacks get their just rewards on music.
Blacks and whites are about equal at sports and physical prowess, with blacks being better at some activities and whites at others. Curries and rice nibblers are the worst.
The orientals are the best at maths and being nerds, with whites second. Robertsons are the worst at intellectual activities.
Whites are the most creative. Chïnks are the best at copying and improving white people’s ideas. The rest are beneficiaries.
So we can see why the whites have created and dominated the modern age, especially the British and other northern Europeans. Until they became all soppy and retarded and turned against their own success. This is perhaps the main flaw of the white race – being too nice. The others are better at not doing this.
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And that’s why there are nominations like this one.
It’s called: the white man’s burden.
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One of the greatest bands ever was both white and black.
The mighty Love, with the mercurial axis of Arthur Lee and Bryan McLean.
I doubt this Stephanie slag has ever even heard of Forever Changes.
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Great album Norman 👍
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The white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUwbZ9AlSPI
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I’ve just been put on the naughty step for the second time today for posting a link to a song by Tom Lehrer.
Tom Lehrer is offensive, apparently.
Who next? Dolly Parton?
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Chuck Berry
Little Richard
dont remember them whining.
And they’d of crossed paths with REAL racists in the Deep South back then.
Joe Frazier never whined either,
most racist remarks to him were from Muhammad Ali.
Certain black people carry themselves in a way that doesn’t draw racism.
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https://youtu.be/WlT9Itr3zuw?is=kQYBUCwT_WZZCWH0
Chuck Norris?
fuck him the goofy cunt.
I like Chuck Berry
and I’m racist as fuck
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/27671524072476243/
Little Richard .
That thieving cunt Bill Haley watching how its done.
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