Roundup: Cramps Frontman Dies, Lily Allen’s Grandpa Fever, Phoenix Feuding

Let’s take a quick looks at what’s going wrong with musicians today…

• Lilly Allen apparently has some grandpa issues. After meeting Lucian Freud, the German-born, 86 year old painter who resides in London, Allen felt the urge to get in bed with him. “I met him and I thought ‘I want to shag [him].’ It would be funny. He’s four times my age” Allen stated. Ummm, funny?  That’s just nasty, Lilly, nasty. [NME]
• Lux Interior, the frontman for the influential punk band, The Cramps, died yesterday at 4:30 pm at Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, CA.  Interior, whose real name was Erik Lee Purkhiser, passed away due to a previously existing heart condition. Survived by Poison Ivy, his wife and band member, Interior will be remembered for his wild stage antics and influence on the 70′s punk scene in New York. [NME]

• Hoping to facilitate a meeting between Joaquin Phoenix and former Fall Out Boy tour-manager-turned-celebrity DJ Dan Suh, MTVNews showed Phoenix a copy of a letter from Suh, to which Phoenix angrily replied, “I don’t need a DJ,” crumpled up the letter and tossed it over his shoulder. With the slight, the feud began. After hearing about the reaction to his letter, Suh made a jab at Phoenix’s street cred stating “Phoenix played a firefighter in [the 2004 film] ‘Ladder 49,’ and that’s law enforcement as far as I’m concerned. I don’t know how he keeps his hip-hop cred after something like that.”  I don’t think anyone’s debating Phoenix’s lack of street cred. I’m with Suh on this. [MTV News]