The Fly Column: The Dead Pool

Every month in The Fly column we hope to run a dead pool, a list of those rock n' roll celebrities who are most likely to pop their proverbial clogs, and join the Live Aid choir invisible.

I'd like to get the ball rolling by nominating for the first dead pool all our American grunge cousins, with their I-just-escaped-from-a-suburb-where-every-home-has-five-cars-and-an-Olympic-sized-swimming-pool-and-I-aint-taking-no-f**kin'-prisoners angst and hard-assed, sub-Sabbath/Pistols splurge riffery, who, according to 99% of all magazine covers are not fey, gay, and glam enough to survive in the mid 90s! (?)

The Fly
Riff Raff
June, 1993

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!