kipper quotes
"Kipper? A massive inspiration. Can't you bloody tell? There'd be no 'Hersham Boys' if it weren't for these lads. Makes me praaaahd to be a Laaandaner, don't it?" - Jimmy Pursey, Sham 69
"Look, people just see Nutter as a yobbo, but he was an amazing piano player. David and myself still marvel at his touch on the ivories even today" - Elton John
"Dear, dear boys, dear boy. Always a pleasure to enjoy a few snifters with, don't you know" - Keith Moon
"Well they were just fucking genius, weren't they?" - Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin
"Old, old, old, old, old, with nothing to say. Boring. Next..." - Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols
"I wish we'd done it" - Mick Jones, The Clash, on 'Clapham Calling'
"Sid Noggett? The only competition I ever really had" - Peter Grant
"Twats" - Cliff Richard
"Me, Marco and Sid managed to blag our way into the first gig - you know, the one with all the pensioners in the audience? Changed our lives. That's how Sid ended up on drums when we started - he just wanted to be Timmy Lea really" - Siouxsie Sioux, Siouxsie & The Banshees
"All these Kippers, Pavements, Corals, they all rip off my lads. Ten bloody quid a week, we're on, and they're driving round in bloody Vauxhall Astras" - Mark E. Smith, The Fall
"No, we never booked them for a session, surprisingly. Though they were always more a Bob Harris type of band, weren't they?" - John Peel
"To change your name from Bloater to Kipper, well, it was a masterstroke - perhaps the most important event in 70s British rock, aside from maybe Ronnie Wood joining the Stones. I mean, 'Bloater', the very word and the images it conjured up, just summed up everything that was bad and over-inflated about the music scene. 'Kipper', though, was a statement of intent, lean and mean, and for a young Christian the references didn't go over my head - there's a definite loaves-and-fishes thing going on there. Everyone saw the violent energy, but for me the message was all about love and compassion" - Bono, U2
"Second only to The Faces in my book. Bob claims to prefer Bloater, but he's just showing off cos' he's got a copy of their album" - Vic Reeves
"Well there's the name Nutter for starters - or "nu-terra", "new earth". How fucking cosmic is that? Truly the most forward-thinking mofo of 1975. And McCulloch was still listening to Bowie!" - Julian Cope, excerpted from a 30-page chapter eulogising Kipper in his forthcoming book 'Rock And Roll'
"Silly little boys. No more boorish or sexist than anyone else around at the time, though - and Timmy had a nice bum, didn't he?" - Germaine Greer
"I was working on a new song called 'Injecting Heroin Into My Arm'. Everyone thought it was about taking drugs, but it was really to do with the rush of excitement you get travelling on the tube at night, inspired by that 70s band Kipper. Remember them? I used to love the way they wrote about London and their surroundings, and my whole career has been based on trying to copy Petal ever since I saw him on Top Of The Pops 25 years ago" - Jason Pierce, Spiritualized
"Be honest, there have only ever been 2 authentic 'cockney' groups, haven't there? Kipper and us. If only they'd gone to Mali like I did they could have extended their career, taken a whole new direction. Stop the war!" - Damon Albarn, Blur
"K-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-can you repeat the qu-qu-question?" - Gareth Gates
"Obviously all that smashing up of pianos was an animal rights thing, wasn't it? Snapped cat-gut and broken ivory all over the stage every night? Nature fights back, in the form of art! Here, is it just me, or can someone smell something burning?" - Tracy Emin
"Listen here chump, and listen good / Muhammed Ali's in the neighbourhood / Frazier and Foreman, Ali's gonna slap 'em / just like Kipper, the boys from Clapham" - Muhammed Ali, press conference, Manila
"Rubbish really, weren't they? It all sounded the same" - Rick Parfitt, Status Quo