Jay Kay can't drive!

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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Car-mad pop star Jay Kay has been banned from driving for six months and fined 750 pounds for speeding.

The front man for chart-toppers Jamiroquai admitted driving at 105 mph in February on the southbound carriage of the notorious A9 near Perth in central Scotland.

Kay -- famed for his passion for sports cars, usually Lamborghinis -- has previous motoring convictions, but does not always need to be driving to get into trouble.

In May 2002 he was involved in a street brawl after he found photographers leaning against his newly delivered Bentley.

Jamiroquai burst onto the British music scene in 1992 with the single "When You Gonna Learn?"

The disco-funk group subsequently enjoyed chart success with their first album "Emergency On Planet Earth."

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The dude from Jamiroquai can afford lamborghinis?!

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

JT Hello, and welcome to Jazz Club. Coool. On today's show, Britain's own white witch-doctor, Jeremy Queen. With his band, Cumquat. Great. So, Jeremy - lord of the bright young jazz scene - welcome.

[camera pans to SD, in rasta dreadlocks, top hat a la JK with feathers etc]

SD Easymoneymasta!
[slight pause]

JT Tell us, Jeremy, what do you ?? kneel ?? be digging for us, here tonight?

SD Tonight, I'm gonna play my new single, which is called "Car Pollution Hypocwrisy". And it's a vast blend of diffewrent musical styles, all lumped together in a huge cooking pot, which is my bwrain.

JT Neat.

SD Yes, my father was a Polish-Bwrocken-Fwranco-Austwrian Jew, and my mother was and is the wind. Can you hear her on the bwreeze? Whoosh!

JT So, erm, how would you describe your new album, "Shakestool"?

SD It's like a huge magical carpet, interwoven with a thousand musical styles and dwreams. Mum! Gone again.
[slight pause as SD flashes his head from left to right]

JT Erm, so if you could categorise it, what type of style of jazz would you categorise it as?

SD Well for me, young lion, I would say, it was Acid skiffle. ?? Unlike the will an' his dog ??

JT Great. Revolution: Hypocrisy.
[pause before SD begins his best efforts at a Jamiroquai impression...]

SD "I was walkin' down the wroad the other day, I went to a shop an' I said, a little piece of chocolate, when I got outside an' sat in my car, I opened the chocolate, and looked at that bar, it had melted away, all over my hand, I said ?? gosh that bar??, I said I don't need no melted chocolate on the seats of my Ferrawri, so I gone inside my glove compartment, gone inside my head..."
[quick clips of PW on flute, MW on bass and CH on hammond organ]

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay Kay leads a very busy professional life - an international life. His ability to drive and to get away for respite from time to time, when he can, is very important to him.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

his gas mileage can't be very good at those speeds.

keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay Kay is clearly being railroaded, whenever I've been hanging out with him he drives his cars a few miles below the speed limit and keeps his hands in the 10 and 2 positions.

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm amazed he found a bit of the A9 sufficiently free of caravans and deer and crap bends to enable him to do 105 mph.

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

His Lamborghini was actually towing a caravan - that's the amazing thing.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, this totally answers my question as to 'what's that guy from jamiroquai up to these days?' After hearing "Canned Heat" in Napoleon Dynamite, I couldn't help but wonder.

thanks!

ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)


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