Applejack

Applejack was an English pop group that lasted from 1971 to 1979. Their very first single, Everybody Shake, skyrocketed them into national fame where they would go on to have many other energetic pop hits.

But from the start, an air of intrigue surrounded the band's lead singer, Warren Kipner. Not because of any particularly unique songwriting or vocal ability. Not because he was the only Australian in the group. But because of his inability to move his legs- his paraplegia. "I got into an accident a few years ago..." was the most he would reveal in some interviews. The public, however, hungered for more.

Warren would never reveal the details of that accident, that he'd lost his childhood best friend in the process. And he would never reveal how his image started to get to him. But while the band tried to carry on, recording albums, doing tours, Warren started to change. He was no longer the modest, happy-go-lucky, persevering young man that they all had loved. He became serious, closed off, and cold- all in his desperate attempt to avoid becoming the one thing worse than a failed singer-songwriter: a novelty.