The RIP thread...

Gutted about that, lovely lovely woman.

She was mate. I met her last year at a gig with Weatherall and she was so nice. Last time I saw either of them

So sad.
RIP.

https://youtu.be/SPMyV7SOgxk

Malik B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lpCeYaLXn8

Listening to Ty this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyQwddW_Rp0

Rest easy

Alan Parker, RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Parker

Diabeetus.

John Hume

That rarest of things - a Northern Irish politician who was not a raving sectarian. RIP.

Julian Bream

"Can I show you my lute?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4f8fej9Sqo

My dad took me to see him in a big cathedral or church somewhere on the North Wales coast when I was a kid. I'd learned Tárrega's Lagrima recently, so hearing him perform Recuerdos de la Alhambra was enthralling, even sitting a few rows from the back.

Pete Way of UFO

Linda Manz "Subvert normality...... Disco sucks...."

https://youtu.be/1CbpeuIR-J0

Webster Johnson aka Webby J

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux6VPRtC3oE

Rest in peace

Count Shelly, Four Aces legend, rest in peace

Pic taken by Dennis Morris

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Ben Cross who so brilliantly portrayed Harold Abrahams in Chariots of Fire. It’s rare the films based around sport are any good. This was surely one of the best of this genre and his performance as the angry yet focused athlete was brilliant.

Gotta see that.
The soundtrack put me off when it came out.

Dele Fadele RIP. NME journalist and founder member of the band Welfare Heroine.

I just remember his reviews in NME were impenetrable yet utterly compelling! I was invariably none the wiser at the end, but more often than not intrigued enough to investigate. He was fully the epitome of classic pre Stuart Cosgrove Hip Hop wars era NME.

that's a shame and you have summed up a lot of my memories of his reviews very well

RIP Jack Sherman

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Guitarist Jack Sherman dies aged 64 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53873198

Sir Ken Robinson

https://twitter.com/SirKenRobinson/status/1297227635253223424?s=19

This animated talk of his is well worth a listen / watch

https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U

Walter Lure, what a life... Teenage hero, last Heartbreaker standing... RIP...

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Walter Lure,
Such was their lifestyle, it was an achievement to get out of the Heartbreakers alive. A volatile combination of strong personalities, sporadic creative brilliance and heavy drug use, theirs was not a band destined for a long and drawn-out life; still, as New York glam lurched on the cusp of punk in 1975, they were definitive. Unlike colleagues such as Johnny Thunders (died 1991) and drummer Jerry Nolan (1992), Walter Lure hasn't only survived, he's prospered. A Wall Street stockbroker, Lure's bonus to himself is to still play music, which he does in a fair estimation of the Heartbreakers style, and to help curate their legacy, as he has with a recent authoritative reissue of their poorly mastered debut, LAMF.

LAMF RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKw4tZIVUiI

Justin Townes Earle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCFAXOcc8Uo

Voice of tennis David Mercer RIP

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Joe Ruby would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids. The creator of children’s classic cartoon Scooby Doo died today aged 87.