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Article: Interview: Chinchilla killer: John Walsh meets... PJ Proby
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 1996
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Grizzled as Grendel's Mother and just as legendary, PJ Proby
sits at the table of a Soho restaurant, the picture of docility.
After "50 years of firing Jack Daniels" down his golden throat, he
is drinking grapefruit juice; before him is the script of Pete
Townshend's newly-disinterred Quadrophenia, which is shortly to go
on the road with Proby playing the Godfather, filling in for Gary
Glitter. From certain angles he is the dead spit of Dennis Hopper,
his face lined and handsome and faintly menacing. And on two
fingers of his left hand, two gold rings spell out a potent
metaphor: one offers the letters "PJP", the other "ROBY. A split
name, to go with the split personality, the split ...