Rick The People's Poet (The Young Ones/Rik Mayall) Color:Dark Grey and alive with possibility

and alive with possibility

Before polished arena rock and before synth-pop minimalism

for reasons no one questioned

known for its dark atmosphere

and West Hollywood nights lives on

Rick The People's Poet (The Young Ones/Rik Mayall) Color:Dark Grey and alive with possibilityThe Peoples Poet The Young Ones Tee (19821984) Angry, chaotic, and completely convinced of his own brilliance, Rick crowned himself The Peoples Poet in The Young Onesdelivering wildly overdramatic political monologues to absolutely anyone trapped nearby. Played by Rik Mayall at full intensity, Rick turned student radicalism into performance art: fist in the air, scarf flying, and zero self awareness. The joke was never the politicsit was the ego