The RIP thread...

That's no moon...

Colin Cantwell

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/23/colin-cantwell-star-wars-designer-behind-the-x-wing-and-death-star-dies-aged-90

and assisted in broadcasting the 1969 moon landing

The various conspiracy theorists must have made a lot of noise about that, I'd have thought.

Dervla Murphy

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/dervla-murphy-secular-saint-of-travel-writing-dies-aged-90-1.4885949

Amazing woman. RIP.

Cathal Coughlan of Microdisney/Fatima Mansions, only 61.

Damn. I have a lot of memories associated with Microdisney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5_HDcIars

Fuck, that's shitty news. Microdisney should've been bigger than the Beatles.

Thats who i heard mentioned on the end of 6 music news. I was fortunate to see them in a tiny club called the mayflower in liverpool many years ago . We hate you white south african bastards comes to mind and singers Hampstead home.

Bugger. He was a bit of a mental bastard, which you wouldn’t have guessed from his music, which was generally lovely.

Ray Liotta.

Alan White, drummer for Yes. RIP.

Shit bags, he was only 67.

Goodfellas and Heartbreakers double bill coming up in ChezBeard this weekend

Day gets worse. Andy Fletcher, keyboards, Depeche Mode

First album is one of the greatest ever, if only for what it represented: teenagers from a dead-end town making brilliant pop music on new fangled synthesisers and a drum machine. Death to rockists.

Sad day all round. RIP

Very sad. Spent the whole evening sipping whisky and listening to Depeche Mode albums.

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Lester Piggott, 86
Jockey and tax evasion enthusiast.

Poor old Lester didn’t have the charm of Doddy, the media used to take the piss out of his speech impediment and were delighted when he got found guilty.

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/03/kelly-joe-phelps-blues-and-country-musician-dies-aged-62

Too young for this amazing guitarist

This was probably already mentioned but this is obit is a good read.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/31/bernard-heath-obituary

Bruce Kent, lifelong CND campaigner.

Thank goodness someone was prepared to shout loud and long that nuclear weapons should be banned. I always considered nuclear weapons a bit of a dick swinging competition and couldn’t work out how we could spend billions on them and be penny pinching in other areas.

IMO we shouldn’t be messing with nuclear technology in any way.

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Julee Cruise :(

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/10/julee-cruise-singer-david-lynch-collaborator-dies-aged-65-b52s