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Stop dying! Just effing stop it!!!
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Oh dear, beautiful lady and a free spirit to boot. Crikey feeling older by the day, most of my icons from my youth are dead now. Apparently at one period in her life she spent 2 years living in a sqawt in Soho whilst addicted to heroin. She managed to turn her life around in the eighties by spending quite a while in rehab. The extremes of her life, maybe amazing that she lasted until her late seventies.
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Really sad to hear about Marianne Faithful. I first became aware of her music through her Broken English album (Why D'Ya Do It? was certainly an intriguing track to me as a teenager 
) but I really liked a lot of her later work, especially Give My Love to London and Negative Capability.
) but I really liked a lot of her later work, especially Give My Love to London and Negative Capability.
I was never really a great fan of her music, but in the sixties and early seventies she always looked so nice to a teenage boy!. And also the stories of her wearing nothing but a sheepskin rug when the police busted one of the Stones houses, eye opening for a young lad.
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PH Moriarty has passed too (aged 85). Perhaps best known as 'Razors' in the Long Good Friday
RIP
RIP
Great film.
Also appeared in The Monocled Mutineer, Quadrophenia and Scum.
RIP.
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What a guitarist! RIP.
Might be for another day but the story about the 1987 Whitesnake album and Sykes' role is phenomenal. You might know about it Postie but very briefly he was sacked by Coverdale (along with the rest of the band) before he carried out his lead guitar parts on the album. Instead of leaving he just told Coverdale to do one and went back to the studio and finished off his parts. Imagine going into a studio, recording the solo to "Don't Turn Away" knowing full well you were relieved of your duties and wouldn't be touring or playing those solos in that band ever again.
1987 is great. I can hear Sykes in Dimebag's playing, although I knew Pantera long before hearing White snake, so my initial reaction to Sykes was "this bloke sounds like Dimebag!"
Respected football journalist and writer Patrick Barclay, 77. Worked for The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph and The Times. He also wrote many acclaimed football books.
Rick Buckler who was the former drummer for The Jam has passed aged 69.
The Jam were great and I can still remember being gutted when Weller broke the group up. Buckler and Bruce Foxton fell out with Weller after that. Foxton later made up with Weller and they have worked on the odd thing since but don't think Buckler and Weller ever did which was sad. RIP
The Jam were great and I can still remember being gutted when Weller broke the group up. Buckler and Bruce Foxton fell out with Weller after that. Foxton later made up with Weller and they have worked on the odd thing since but don't think Buckler and Weller ever did which was sad. RIP
One of my favourite bands. Shame how it all fell apart.
Rick passing feels like a massive one. For many, The Jam were the band that defined a generation. While Weller’s lyrics spoke for the teenage disillusionment, Buckler’s drumming reinforced the message. From the machine gun delivery on In the City (Away from the Numbers / Batman), to the rhythmic repetition on Going Underground, to the futile military marching on Setting Sons (Eton Rifles/Wasteland).
Many on here will have seen the early days at The Fiesta Suite, or later at ‘arena’ venues like The Cornwall Colosseum.
Rick later became a French polisher. Suspect he excelled at that as well.
Many on here will have seen the early days at The Fiesta Suite, or later at ‘arena’ venues like The Cornwall Colosseum.
Rick later became a French polisher. Suspect he excelled at that as well.
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Loved The Jam. One of my biggest regrets was not going to see them on the Beat Surrender farewell tour down at the Cornwall Colleseum. Could have easily got tickets.
Seen Weller a few times and find him very hit or miss. He's at his best when he throws a few Jam songs in, but he went years not doing that. Which is fair enough I suppose.
Seen Weller a few times and find him very hit or miss. He's at his best when he throws a few Jam songs in, but he went years not doing that. Which is fair enough I suppose.
For anyone who likes a bit of folk, RIP Billy Fay. Just listening to The Healing Day now. What a beautiful song, from his amazing return in 2012