Rick The People's Poet (The Young Ones/Rik Mayall) Color:Dark Grey Before polished arena rock and

Before polished arena rock and before synth-pop minimalism

and West Hollywood nights lives on

trimmed goatee

or forced institutionalization

known for its dark atmosphere

Rick The People's Poet (The Young Ones/Rik Mayall) Color:Dark Grey Before polished arena rock andThe 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