News Spike: Paula, Michael, Peaches and Bob

Today, we taketh the lesson from Hughie and Paula : The Tangled Lives of Hughie Green and Paula Yates, by Christopher Green, with Carol Clark, Robson Books, 2003.

The text is from pages 227-228, and we read:

From left to right:

Peaches Geldof (DECEASED), Michael Hutchence (DECEASED), Paula Yates (DECEASED);

Pixie & Fifi-Trixabelle Geldof.

We now return again to:

Excerpts from:

THE COVERT WAR AGAINST ROCK

-- by Alex Constatine

"Hutchence was a political activist. His will designated Amnesty International and Greenpeace as the benefactors of the lion's share of his assets. And like many popular musicians on the left, the authorities harassed and set him up for a fall.

In a July 1998 interview that appeared in a fan newsletter, Colin Diamond, Hutchence's attorney and former executor of his estate, was asked about the vocalist's September 1996 opium bust and his defense that the narcotic was planted by police. [Nope.]

"Perhaps you should try and figure it out for yourself!" Diamond snapped.

"Michael and Paula were out of the country and during that time only a few people had any real access to the place: Bob Geldof, Anita Debney, the nanny who used to work for Bob for twelve or so years, and a woman called Gerry Agar, who had developed a grudge against both Paula and Michael.

The police were called days after the nanny claimed she'd found two Smarty packets with opium in them.

Geldof immediately had a new custody application before the courts, 'in light of recent events.' The local police and prosecutors had the media on their case.

There was enormous pressure on them, but even they had to admit something was a bit fishy.

[The court] dropped all charges, remember, and Michael was issued with a certificate of non-prosecution by the Crown."

When asked if Hutchence "got off" fairly, Diamond snapped again: "Got off, GOT OFF?? I think the question should be who tried to get him on. You figure it out!"

Peaches Geldof (DECEASED), Anita Debney (still in the employ of BOB GELDOF KBE) and Paula Yates (DECEASED), circa 1995

Gerry Agar, Provocatuer, Spy and Hearse-chaser.

Anyone who watches Spooks knows - from Episode 1, Series 1 : the way to most efficiently and rapidly gain someone's trust, infiltrate their life and completely fuck it up is through exploiting the empathy inherently generated through exploitation of the maternal bond -

Mums from The School.

A "Friend of the Family" - Presumably, the Royal Family...

...says Gerry Agar.

Regarding Peaches "demons" that "haunted" her -

"The motivation for these characters appear to be incredibly flimsy... One can imagine if both your parents were murdered right in front of you, you might perhaps spend a lifetime in analysis; it's unlikely, however, to inspire you to become a Bat-themed vigilante..."

- Alan Moore.

"...I still haven't fully come to terms with my Mum's death..."

- Peaches Geldof, circa 2011

(Fucking quite right, too...)