RIP Ari Up Of Slits

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Just read some really sad news…Ari Up of the legendary punk group Slits has just passed away. Slits debut album is easily in my top 3 Punk albums ever. A real shame…RIP Ari.


"Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon is mourning the death of his step-daughter Ari Up, herself a punk star.

Up - whose real name was Arianna Forster - was a member of the all-girl punk-reggae act The Slits, who reformed occasionally to tour.

She died on Wednesday from a “serious illness” and the death was announced on Lydon’s website.

Up, 48, formed the band with Paloma Romero - better known as Palmolive - with Viv Albertine also featuring in the line-up.

They were part of a music scene which was at the centre of the punk explosion and were most famously known for tracks such Typical Girls and their cover of Heard It Through The Grapevine.

Lydon is married to Up’s mother Nora Forster - a German publishing heiress - and they have been together for three decades.

Announcing the death on Johnlydon.com, a statement reads: “John and Nora have asked us to let everyone know that Nora’s daughter Arianna (aka Ari-Up) died today (Wednesday, October 20th) after a serious illness. She will be sadly missed.”

The cover of The Slits debut album - in which Up and her bandmates were photographed topless and smeared with mud - became an enduring punk image.

Dreadlocked Up, who was born in Munich, was just 14 when she originally formed the group."

HEARD IT THROUGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxvo_9DEqY#]The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

TYPICAL GIRLS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXGblps64M#]The Slits - Typical Girls

SHOPLIFTING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x78FDlEcts#]the slits - shoplifting

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Johnny is 54.
His step daughter was 48.

Just how old is his wife, anyway?

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I’m not sure??? I do know they’ve been married for 3 decades though. I imagine she’s older than Lydon??? Well I hope so anyway!

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If she’s not older than him it would mean she got knocked up at age 5. This is a sick sick world we live in. Ain’t it, Akbar?

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Punk Rock brother!

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RIP Ari [:(]

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Nora Forster, Lydon’s wife, is 68 years old, by the way.

  1. As in . . . almost 70.

I just threw up in my mouth. The thought of old people makes me sick.

Still sorry for their loss, though.

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I just threw up in my mouth. The thought of old people makes me sick.

Now think of them all slathered up in mayonnaise touching their tongues outside of their mouths… gently caressing their liver spots, now made shiny and glimmering from the grease the mayonnaise has coated them with. mmmmmmmmm I should write romance novels! or culinary novels! You ever had a spot of liver dipped in mayonnaise? I’m hungry!
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People should be killed after age 55 so I don’t have to look at them or smell them.

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People should be killed after age 55 so I don’t have to look at them or smell them.

The smell of death and mayonnaise! that would be a bomb ass scratch n’ sniff for the kids that do a shitty job on their homework!
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grmpysmrf