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Sometimes, in the world of blogging, mistakes are made. In the rush to publish, we obscure the occasional fact and allow our less-than-reliable memories to run away with the truth.
And so it was yesterday, when we received an e-mail from a webmaster about a post we did on Monday about Richard Marx:
Below you will find an email from Richard Marx. I am his webmaster for his 2 websites and he asked me to forward this along to you about your incorrect October 9, 2006 article.
Dear Scott,
While I appreciate the generally positive, albeit backhandedly so, "update" you posted, your information is somewhat misinformed. My "Days In Avalon" CD is not being re-released, though EMI released my latest CD, "My Own Best Enemy" in 2004 which contained the top 20 Hot AC single, "When You're Gone." My new CD will be out in the spring of next year. And there was never a "series" of videos for my single, "Hazard." Don't know where you got that.
Just keeping the record straight. And Grammy, yes....but no, no crack habit.....yet.
Richard Marx
Turns out that the re-release we mentioned above was import-only and can only be purchased in Japan or on Amazon.com by people with lots of money to burn. Chicagoist regrets this error.
But what of the “Hazard” videos? We swore more than one version existed and remembered that said video was the talk of the schoolyard about whether the guy in the video was a stone cold killer, and how Richard Marx was apparently not to be trifled with. The mystery revealed, after the jump.
After a bit of back and forth, we received another e-mail from Mr. Marx via his webmaster:
Richard's response:
There were 2 versions of the video. The second was re-edited only for Europe and had shots of me actually singing the song, which made the storyline LESS revealing. There was never a plan for a third. Shit, man.....Isn't there a North Korean nuclear threat to write about???!!!!
R
So there you have it. Not a series, just two. And as we told Mr. Marx in our reply, life isn’t all dictators and ICBMs.
We hope this incident has not soured Mr. Marx on making Chicagoist a regular stop during his daily Web surfing, and that the stress resulting from our post does not lead him to start hitting the pipe as an escape.
UPDATE: The saga continues as Richard Marx proves he's got both a sense of humor and the kind of charm that wins him the favor of all the ladies.
From Richard:
Scott,
Once again, you are erroneous in your reporting. Your website couldn't ever "stop" being a regular part of my web surfing because it's never been part of it to begin with. I was alerted to your original post, also full of inaccuracies as we've both agreed, by a second party. I never knew you existed.
The good news is that there are female writers at your offices who are "abuzz" (now THAT'S a good word!) about me, and that makes a middle aged, ex-mullet wearing musician feel good.
Richard
PS: Do you really have "offices?" I get the feeling it's just you in your parents' basement.
Richard,
I'm sorry to hear you're laboring under the assumption that all bloggers are trolls who like Star Trek and are still listed as 35 year-old dependents when their parents file their tax returns. On the contrary, I get out a bit here and there. I even catch the occasional live show from musicians both ex-mulleted and not ex-mulleted.
Also sorry to hear you are not and never will be one of Chicagoist's 10,000 daily readers. But we're always right here waiting for you if you change your mind. If not, you and I can certainly continue our correspondence. Although I'm hard to reach on Thursday evenings. That's the night I clean the basement. You understand, I'm sure.
And really...full of inaccuracies? You only mentioned two. Occasioned with inaacuracies, maybe. Or if we're hauling out the $100 vocab words: Besotted?
In conclusion, yes the ladies of Chicagoist dig your mojo, sir. Now and forever. As do the handful of ladies I've mentioned our correspondence to. And I'm sure the reverse isn't true when you mention my name.
So if nothing else, you can hold that over my head.
Scott
Dear Scott,
I'm starting to dig you.
"Besotted" won me over.
Hi to all the ladies.
Richard
It pretty much goes without saying that Richard Marx is now our new favorite person.
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i miss his sweet 80s mullet
As an aside, the female writers of the Chicagoist offices have been abuzz with discussions about Richard Marx ever since that post went up. And every time we’ve mentioned this to any of my female friends, the first words out of their mouths were “Wow, so do you think you could get his autograph for me?”
So yeah. Smart-ass bloggers: 0; Richard Marx: 1.
Hi Richard, how's it going?
I still get a little tingly feeling when I think of that shaggy mullet and the way he tossed it about.
Wow, I guess he really did mean it when he said, "wherever you go, whatever you do / I will be right here waiting for you ..." Who knew it was directed at Mr. Smith?
he looks good in that photo. i'm dead serious. the haircut serves him well.
Damn, he looks great. He's aged really well.
I was sort of waiting for him to email you over that last post. Nice to write about someone like Richard, and use my uploaded videos from YouTube, but you should be a good fact checker in the process. Take care and have a good one...
Sincerely,
Denise :)
CORRECTION: Mr Marx would like to point out that he did not, in fact, sport a`rock mullet` as popularly believed. The appropriate nomenclature is `Adult Comtemporary Waterfall`.
Please do your research.
LMAO! Now this is some argument. Although I have to say that I have never seen an artist who made comments through his web administrator. I always thought that people like that used publicists.
Richard,
If you read this (which I think you will be) contact me! We need to work together!
Rich
http://www.rpatrickmohrphotography.net
You two make a dashing couple!
If you read this (which I think you will be) contact me! We need to work together!
How could someone pass up a professional approach like that?
If you read this (which I think you will be) contact me! We need to work together!
How could someone pass up a professional approach like that?
after some consideration, I've decided this is by far the best correspondence I've ever read. Move over, DeSade: Letters from Prison.
Oh Star Search, you've really done it now! :)
CORRECTION: Mr Marx would like to point out that he did not, in fact, sport a`rock mullet` as popularly believed. The appropriate nomenclature is `Adult Comtemporary Waterfall`.
Please do your research.
Just saw the 'Take This Heart' video again. Have to agree, if that is a mullet, Heather Locklear's been sporting mullets throughout her professional career.
Love ya, RM! 'Take This Heart' is still one my favorite songs ever!
I just had to resurrect the now dormant blog on Richard Marx because I wanted to comment on how much I enjoyed reading that little information and rebuttal session that occurred (quite unexpectedly) between Scott and Richard. Whether Richard chooses to respond through his webmaster or personally, he is definitely a man who can hold his own in a debate. And, apparently, so can Scott. Kudos to Scott, for admitting he mispoke on a few facts concerning Richard Marx.
Richard is a prolific song writer and extremely talented performer. He takes himself and his work seriously, and rightly so. Nevertheless, as shown by his recent banter with Scott, Richard also has a very good sense of humor. "Adult Contemporary Waterfall" or whatever hairstyle he happens to wear, it's the brain matter contained underneath that continues to impress his fans all these years.
NOTE TO SCOTT: I deliberately chose to write this on a Thursday as I thought you might want to spend some time away from the bleach fumes.
I'm late to the party, I know. I stumbled upon this thread through Google, in search of "Hazard" videos. That's videos. With an S at the end. The song came up in conversation with a friend at 4 am, followed by frustration in search for the truth about multiple Hazard videos. I -- nay, WE -- clearly, CLEARLY, remember MTV flashing up the title "Hazard - Part 1" and "Hazard - Part 2." But you guys and some random flickr page flickr.com/photos/cmdrgravy/309662905 seem to be the only ones to recognize and acknowledge this, including that lying mulleteer himself, Richard Marx. There wasn't a re-edit "only for Europe" -- there were two versions right here on my MTV. I'm not crazy, you're not crazy, and Mr. Random Flickr Guy isn't crazy. But this issue has definitely got me goin' crazy. Wherever you go, whatever you do, I most definitely WILL be right here waiting for you, to tell me the truth about the multiple Hazard videos, Mr. Marx.
I only stumbled upon this article because I just saw the vid for "hazard" on TV and thought I would search for more info of a great song I remember from my "yoof". Glad to see R.M is alive, well and has a great sense of humour. He is now etched even more favourably in my mental top ten list of 80's musicians.
Speaking as the Random Flickr Guy I don't ever remember seeing a "Hazard Part 2", and having seen Part 1 I probably wouldn't have watched it anyway, but I simply jumped to the logical conclusion that anything with a part 1 must also have at least a part 2. I may have been wrong !