I just started singing this little song to myself: ‘Sometimes I feel/Like I don’t have a partner….’ – the hills, the buildings, the people in it as a whole - that seemed to be looking out for me more than any human being. “I grew up here for the last twenty years, and it was L.A. “The only thing I could grasp was this city,” Kiedis says. “I was driving away from the rehearsal studio and thinking how I just wasn’t making any connection with my friends or family, I didn’t have a girlfriend, and Hillel wasn’t there,” he says soberly, referring to Hillel Slovak, the band’s original guitarist and a close friend since high school, who died of a heroin overdose in June 1988. Except he was suffering from another kind of withdrawal. Kiedis, a muscular young buck with ruggedly handsome features and long, ironing-board-flat hair, had been clean for some time - since August 1st, 1988 - when he turned that memory into song during preproduction for the Chili Peppers’ latest album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Like, how could I let myself get to that point?” But that’s just one day that sticks very vividly in my memory. “It’s not that that one place was more insidious than other places.
“That was one of just hundreds of predicaments that I found myself in, the kind that only drug addiction can bring about,” Kiedis says with a shrug. I ended up going there with this gang member, and the only way that I was allowed to go under this bridge was for him to tell everybody else that I was getting married to his sister. “I ran into some fairly unscrupulous characters involved with miniature Mafioso drug rings, and the hangout for one of these gangs was this particular location under a bridge. “I was reaching a demoralizing low, just kind of hanging out on the streets and doing my thing and not much else, sadly to say,” Kiedis explains in a subdued, slightly gravelly voice quite unlike his aggro-stud stage bark. For another, it was under that bridge that Kiedis’s life bottomed out a few years ago under the weight of a severe heroin addiction. street-gang turf casual visitors are not suffered gladly. For one thing, it was, and still is, on L.A. But Kiedis is understandably reluctant to turn the bridge into a pop-music tourist attraction. Kiedis, the singer and lyricist of the Red Hot chili peppers, has already immortalized the spot in “Under the Bridge,” the stark and uncommonly pensive ballad - at least for the usually sex-mad, funked-up Chili Peppers - that unexpectedly drop-kicked the band into the Top Ten. “It’s downtown,” he says warily, gesturing vaguely at a distant spot on the glittering Los Angeles night-scape outside a high-rise Hollywood hotel room.
In under three years, the UK-listed company bought the catalogues of artists including rapper Timbaland, Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, Blondie, Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and Barry Manilow.Anthony Kledis will not disclose the exact location of the bridge. Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards at in Los Angeles, California.
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Since the beginning of the year, it has also inked deals with Shakira, former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and super producer and music exec Jimmy Iovine. In January, it snapped up half of Neil Young’s massive 1,180 song catalogue for around $150 million. Hipgnosis has been on a buying spree recently. Bruno Mars and Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show. The Chili Peppers’ catalogue, which was largely penned by the band’s key members, lead singer Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith and guitarist John Frusciante, generates between $5 million to $6 million a year for publishers, according to Billboard, and was sold for about 25 times as much. Last year, Bob Dylan sold his 600-song catalogue for more than $300 million to Universal Music, and Stevie Nicks sold hers to Primary Wave for $100 million. Reps for the Chili Peppers and Hipgnosis did not immediately respond to requests for comment.įormed in 1982 in Los Angeles, the Chili Peppers are the latest big-name act to see a windfall from the sale of their catalogue. The Anthony Kiedis-fronted band is selling the publishing rights to its songs to London-based music investment firm Hipgnosis, Variety reported.
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