Messiah Complex

Sky Saxon from the Seeds heard that his band was described as a "garage" band (used to be a putdown, not a genre classification.) so he said "Garage rock is good 'cause Jesus was born in a barn, which in those times would've been their equivalent to a garage".

Of all people, the sweet, down-to-earth John Denver once claimed he would achieve godhood through TM.

Jim Kerr around the time he thought he could solve the troubles in Ireland by standing on a hilltop in a strong breeze and mooing loudly like a big, sick cow.

I have a joke.

So, this guy dies, and goes to heaven. St. Peter meets him at the pearly gates, and shows him around. They see Shakespeare sitting with Wordsworth, playing chess, and so St. Peter says "Now, obviously, this is the writers' corner."

They walk a little futher, and there is Michaelangelo sitting sipping ambrosia with Rosetti. St. Peter says "Clearly, this is where the artists go when they die..."

They walk further along, and there is a ping-pong table, and Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones are playing doubles with Beethoven and Bono. "Now these are our musicians..." St. Peter starts to say, but the guy cuts him off.

"Surely, St. Peter... Bono isn't dead yet!!!"

"Oh no," says St.Peter. "That's God. He just likes to *pretend* he's Bono every now and then."

Man what a loaded question, are we talking about pop artists thinking that they are jesus/insert relevant religious figure, or popsters acting snotty?

Lennon did not believe he was the messiah, he was just bolshy regardless of his fame. Not sure about Bono Jim Morrison had a messiah complex and why not? Prince has one and is a wanker as a human being

This is the central point.You don't have to be a wanker to have a messiah complex. Although it's a pretty wanky thing to have Jim Morr

Michael Jackson, Brit Awards, arms asunder in crucifix pose, old folks and children clinging to his legs, begging for salvation.

Salvation would surely have been theirs had not Jarvis "Serpent in the Garden" Cocker ruined things for humanity as a whole.

Wasn't it Jarvis who had the Messiah Complex there? The parallel is surely Christ throwing the money-lenders (or, in this case, monkey- befrienders) out of the temple...

The funniest example of this being Eddie Vedder's bug-eyed "I am NOT your fucking Messiah!" outburst after Kurt topped himself.

I don't remember anyone claiming that you were, Ed.

Monkey-Befrienders.....now *THERE's* a band name for ya!

What about Lucifer complexes? Plenty of those about, but then his is the more interesting role. (Maybe another thread... ) Anyway, maybe we could start with Screaming Lord Sutch...

Well, according to 'One Love Story', The Stone Roses were trying to bring about the coming of a new messiah by acting as John The Baptsit in a Mancunian jangle-pop disguise.

But that's according to a mentalist.