Brian Johnson Slams Do-Gooders
/ News / 05/02/2010 12:24pm
AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson has had a right go at celebs who ask people to donate money to charity.
Talking to Australia’s Daily Telegraph, Jonno said:
“I don’t tell everybody they should give money – they can’t afford it. When I was a working man I didn’t want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa.
“I’m sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry. I become all tyrannical.”
Well said, Brian. That’s put Bob Geldof and Bono in their place!
At last someone has the decency to say it as it is. Well done Brian, now if Mike form Picture could join in they won’t cancel football.
Totally agree with Jonno.
If some rich git can afford to splash out £65 million on a flipping bronze sculpture, they can afford to give just a little of their “excess” to charity.
Them that have least seem to be asked to give most (often by the ones that are loaded!).
Got to agree,Bono could bail out most of Africa
with his earnings.You go to a gig to hear the music,not some artist who thinks they are a politician because they have an audience.
Brian is spot on. We go to a concert to be entertained not preached at.
As usual Brian is on the mark. A true working class hero who hasn’t changed his colours with fame and money unlike those pretentious, patronising Rock Stars like Bono or should I say “Saint Bono”!!!!
I kind of agree and disagree: being able to put your voice across to millions of people is a privilege, and if at the same time you use that platform to draw people’s attention to various injustices (so that maybe they feel like donating something) that’s not just a good thing, it’s giving something back. Anyhow, the individual can chose whether to cough up or not. However, it’s also right that they should be seen do do so themselves. The star that builds their career on preaching about poverty while dodging taxes (naming no names) is only worthy of contempt.
Spot on Brian, he is a perfect working class hero.
It’s good to see there’s still a public figure out there without delusions of grandeur. Well done.
Ok, fair points all, but I’m sure I can remember a charity record featuring Beano Johnson. It was called something like ‘Try Giving Everything’!
Incomparable Jonno! I’ve just finished his autobiography: one single page sums up what life and we all should be much more than 30 yrs of somebody else’s Jesus-Christ-like (but NOT when you compare bank accounts!!!) sermons…..
Rock on Brian. I have no problem giving to charity, but when we are supporting a band or arstist going to a concert, they have no right to tell us to give.