Opinion | Jeff Slate: The Prodigy's Keith Flint was innovative, dangerous and a parent's worst nightmare. - NBCNewsTHINK
a 1991 hit that spawned endless imitators. But with no obvious frontman, Howlett brought in a couple of friends from his hometown of Essex to, essentially, dance around and act menacing during live performances. Of that group, however, it was Flint, with a spiky, half-shaved haircut and ghoulish makeup who quickly became synonymous with the name The Prodigy.Howlett was no frontman — like producer Brian Eno, a man with a plan but ultimately no stage presence — but Flint surely was.
As Flint once memorably put it,Like Elvis, Little Richard and Chuck Berry in the 1950s, the Rolling Stones in the 1960s, and even KISS in the 1970s, Flint terrified middle-class parents with his personification of the controversial rave and ecstasy-soaked culture of the 1990s. Flint himself reveled in the attention, prowling the stage like a caged animal and giving controversial interviews to the then-all important British music press.
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