Modpost: Feb/March Theme!
FEMME FETALE THEME!
♀ FEMME FETALE THEME
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For this application you need to imagine you're living in the swinging sixties or the free-wheeling seventies. Woo!
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LISTENING TO YOU I HEAR THE MUSIC
Welcome to the scene! The first and foremost thing to do is to come up with a scene-name for yourself! It can be a new groovy surname, anagram of your name or something completely different. Go wild:
So go on, who's the number one hottie on your list? Or top three?
Unfortunately your ultimate dream-hunk is sick and his (or her) band isn't coming to the town during this hot summer, but there are a bunch of others that are. Alas, they're all holding concerts at the same time and you can only go to one! Who will you choose?
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FROM YOU I GET THE HEAT
I can't believe it! You got invited to one of their notorious afterparties! Will you go, why, and what would happen?
Could you marry a rock-star or would you rather settle with someone more "normal"?
Dating hot rockstars aside, being in the limelight can give you a platform to do your own thing. Would you use the opportunity, and what would you want to be known for?
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You can post one or two of your coolest, hottest, or grooviest pictures:
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I GET EXCITEMENT AT YOUR FEET
Scandal: You've just been accused of ruining your rockstar's band's career. How would you deal with the public pressure or hatred?
What sort of scandal, if you had to choose, would you be known for? For example, being too young for your rockstar, being off limits, driving a wedge in the band, being too controlling, what would it be?
The burning question: How would you ensnare your rockstar? Would it be through your beauty, charm, wit, seduction techniques, what?
Lastly, please describe your style for us.
Is there someone you strongly disagree to be voted as?
Edie Sedgwick:
Infamous for being stuck between two leaders of pop culture during the sixties, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol, Edie came from a family with a history of addictions, mental instability, and anorexia, all of which Edie experienced during her turbulent life being part of "The Factory" in New York City. While not strictly causing any death of a man, she was a muse for both Dylan and Warhol, and when she left the side of Chuck Wein he did threaten suicide. Although she said during the time that she had slept with Dylan, Dylan has denied this, and attempted to keep the 2008 Sienna Miller film "Factory Girl" from releasing because of the depiction of a romantic relationship between the two of them. Dylan was secretly married at the time and it was far more likely that Edie was simply hoping for a relationship than receiving one.
Also known as: Socialite, model, object of The Velvet Underground song "Femme Fetale."
Sarah Lowdes:
Sarah Lowdes once again allows for a connection to Bob Dylan. The journalist for the Times was married to Dylan for most of the sixties and the early seventies, before a bitter divorce ensued. The album, "Blood on the Tracks", was the result of their marriage, an album bitterly dedicated to Sarah, while simultaneously criticizing and pleading with her to return to him as Dylan swung deeper and deeper into an angered depression.
Also known as: Journalist, undercover Playboy bunny, wife of Bob Dylan.
Yoko Ono:
Probably the most well known femme fetale, she is often accused for leading to the downfall of The Beatles, although she has insisted on several occasions that "No woman could have that power." She was often the subject of many of John Lennon's solo songs, such as "Dear Yoko", "Oh! Yoko," and of course The Beatles song, "The Ballad of John and Yoko." Yoko often had to endure the racial hatred of the time, being called such racial epithets as "The Dragon Lady" or "The Eastern Hag" who had "bewitched" John with her "filthy Eastern ways."
Also known as: Avant-garde artist, survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Pattie Boyd:
Muse for both husband George Harrison and later husband Eric Clapton, she is often thought of as the epitome of rock girlfriends. It is also rumored that Mick Jagger and John Lennon both proposed her for affairs, but were politely rejected. Through love letters, Clapton threatened to overdose on cocaine if she didn't leave George, which, through irreconcilable differences, she did. Harrison then had to struggle with both his best friend and wife getting together, but with his trademark acerbic humor, he stated years later, "I said he could have her."
Also known as: Model, actress, photographer, writer.
Nancy Spungen:
A completely mentally unstable girl from birth, Nancy Spungen is said to have suffered mental defects at birth as a result of being choked by her own umbilical cord, and struggled through life from then on. Bounced through childhood from doctor to doctor and from medication to medication, she grew up on drugs and often raged in violent attacks, sticking her arms through windows or slicing them with scissors. The only thing that interested her was music, and by the time she was seventeen she was "partying" with groups such as Bad Company, Aerosmith, and Queen. She also began to hang out with The Ramones and Debbie Harry, who, by becoming a prostitute herself at the age of 18, encouraged Nancy to try the same. However, Nancy had had enough of drugs and entered a rehab facility, coming out at clean at 19, the age at which she went to London for the first time. It was here that she met Sid Vicious, who was later charge with stabbing her to death in the hotel room that they shared together, despite both of them attempting to get clean.
However, Nancy was also intellectually gifted. With an IQ of 153, she was certifiably a genius despite her troubled and complex character.
Also known as: Sid Vicious' girlfriend.
Myra Brown:
Also known as Miss Jerry Lee Lewis, Myra Brown was just 13 and Jerry Lee Lewis' third cousin when he married her. It was said that she still believed in Santa Claus when interviewed by the press, who immediately denounced Jerry as a baby-snatcher, boycotting his performances. Jerry Lee Lewis never regained the same sort of popularity again, and he divorced Myra in 1970. They had two children together.
Also known as: The child-wife of Jerry Lee Lewis. (LOL |D)
Kim Kerrigan/ Kim Moon:
Kim Kerrigan, also known as the wife of drummer Keith Moon. An article from 2006 describes what type of person she was:
"One of the iconic models of the Sixties, who entranced London and became the teenage bride of The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, has died in a car accident.
Kim McLagan, who married the former Small Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan after years of abuse in which the self-destructive Moon chased her around their home with a shotgun, was killed when her car was hit by a truck in Texas on Wednesday. She had apparently driven through a stop sign in Travis County, according to a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety. She died at the scene of the accident. She was 57.
There was no more appropriate symbol for Mrs McLagan's tumultuous years with Moon, who idolised her, than the champagne bottle that he famously threw at her during one of many fights at the London flat they shared in the late Sixties. It was embedded in the wall and Moon put a frame around it. Moon's chauffeur, Dougal Butler, described in his memoir, Full Moon, how his boss adored her. "There is no question at all, that [he] only ever loved one woman in his life and that woman is Kim. The only real question is whether there is anyone else he treats worse," Mr Butler wrote.
The couple met at a gig in Bournemouth where, as the hairdresser Kim Kerrigan, she had started modelling at 15. Her parents relocated to the seaside town after bringing her up in Malaysia and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in east Africa, where her father ran rubber and coconut plantations.
She was more shy and softly spoken than some models, which explained her relatively low profile, but her deep-set blue eyes, hourglass figure and flipped-up hair captivated many, including Moon, who was a year older than her.
Kim, who changed her name from Patricia to avoid comparisons with the model Pattie Boyd, married him in March 1966. She later appeared in the video of The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love". "It wasn't the way I planned it, but I really, really loved him," she once said. "He was funny. He was lovely. But it wasn't something I was looking for." The couple's daughter, Mandy, was born four months after the wedding.
Moon was fond of telling how he and Rod Stewart were both dating Kim at the same time and only discovered the fact when they took the same train from London to Bournemouth to see her. "I showed Rod a picture of Kim and he said, 'Yeah, that's 'er,'" Moon related. But by 1973, Moon's womanising, frequent absences and violence forced his wife to leave for a hotel with their daughter. She never went back.
She began a relationship with Ian McLagan, and they married in 1978, the same year that Moon died of a drugs overdose.
The couple moved to the US and eventually settled at a 15-acre range in Travis County, near Austin, Texas, in 1994, where she opened a spa and McLagan continued his music career. The couple had no children from their 28-year marriage.
The spa's website betrays no hint of her adventurous past. "Originally from London, I moved to Texas in 1994," she states.
But Moon evidently found it harder to forget. Mr Butler described being in an Indian restaurant with him some years after she had left when they encountered a waitress who looked like Kim. Moon burst into tears."
Mo Starkey:
"The eighteen-year-old Cox married Ringo Starr on 11 February 1965. Their first child, Zak Starkey, was born on 13 September 1965. They had two more children, Jason on 19 August 1967 and Lee on 11 November 1970. During this time, Maureen was very much a part of Ringo's life, and they did everything together. She sang backup vocals on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and was, along with Yoko Ono, in attendance at the rooftop concert in 1969 (Paul can be heard saying "Thanks, Mo," in reference to Maureen's audible cheering after the final performance of "Get Back".) The very first song in the Beatles' Apple Records catalogue was a special private recording sung by Frank Sinatra as a favour to Ringo Starr as a 22nd birthday gift for Maureen in 1968. Sammy Cahn rewrote Lorenz Hart's lyrics to "The Lady Is a Tramp" and personalised them about Maureen (who was a great Sinatra fan). Sinatra recorded the song in Los Angeles, and only a few copies were pressed before the master tape was destroyed. Ringo surprised Maureen with the one-of-a-kind single on 4 August 1968. Any surviving copies of the disc would be counted among the most priceless artifacts of Beatles/Sinatra memorabilia. A poor quality copy of the song began circulating in collector circles. It is now available on several bootleg albums. In a 2005 interview with Andre Gardner on WMGK Radio in Philadelphia, former Beatles business manager Peter Brown described extensively his role in getting Sinatra to do the record. Cahn plays piano while Sinatra sings the reworked lyrics. They are the only two performers on the song.
Despite all of the marriage problems the couple faced, such as Maureen's affairs, which is mentioned in Pattie Boyd's biography Wonderful Tonight, Maureen Starkey did not want a divorce. Her husband, however, simply wanted out. Maureen eventually accepted. On 17 July 1975, the divorce was finalised on the grounds of Ringo's affair with an American model, Nancy Lee Andrews."
Both Ringo and Mo threatened suicide during the divorce procedures, and Ringo did actually cut his wrists and was admitted to hospital.
Courtney Love:
The wife of former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
"I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature" . A huge influence on Kurt's life and influence for Nirvana's song "Heart-shaped Box".
Claudette Orbison:
Wife of Roy Orbison. His marriage to Claudette was sweet and sour. He was away from home for long stretches at a time, she was young reportedly having an affair. They were divorced in November, 1964 only to remarry the following August. While touring in England in March 1966 he was nearly killed in a motorcycle accident. He broke an ankle and performed the rest of the tour seated on a stool . Three months later in 1966, he was riding motorcycles with his wife, Claudette, whose name was the title of a tune he wrote in 1955 and the Everly Brothers recorded in 1958,.when a truck driver pulled out in front of her. She died an hour later at the age of twenty-five.
Modnote: I tried to provide as much information as I could find! :) If you still have questions, just ask and I'll try to clarify them for you.