If you are what you say you are, a superstar
Then have no fear, the crowd is here
And the lights are on
And they want a show-oh-oh-oh, yeah
Songwriters - Wasalu Jaco / Rudolph Loyola Lopez
What do you imagine when you think of rock stars?
1970s excess perhaps? Drugs, drink and debauchery? Throwing TVs out of windows or driving expensive cars into swimming pools? Great records and legends that burned brightly and left us early.
Have you heard? The rock star is back. Like Jim Morrison defrosted, dried out, defibrillated, and playing Las Vegas 200 nights a year.
Except it’s not a musician, this is the return of the Rock Star Economy. Through all the predictions of poor growth and recession NZME have sighted land and declared that the phenomenon, which never was, has returned.
Not even slightly doubting Thomas Coughlan proclaimed the discovery in the Herald. He peered through, beyond reality - back to better times, to that fabled place long sought, and announced that NZ Inc had returned to the promised land.
Ladies and gentleman this is not just back on track, it’s better, faster, more bionic, it’s nothing short of a miracle - please welcome to the stage…
Can you feel the excitement? Maybe you’re compelled to jump on stage and launch yourself into to the crowd, to surf upon outstretched arms and bask in his glory?
Yeah/Nah - don’t do that, that security barrier is a lot further back than it used to be when Rock Dinosaurs ruled the land. You’ll fall directly in no-mans-land with only bemused security to watch as you crash uncomfortably to the ground and soon thereafter go directly to the emergency ward.
I suspect a few of you might be a bit skeptical. Not over your ability to leap into the crowd, but at the idea of Luxon as a superstar. So how can we tell if Christopher can really rock, or whether Thomas is making a song and dance out of nothing?
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