RIP....."Reg Presley" ....... Lead Singer of the 60`s group The Troggs......Wild Thing and the likes !!
R.I.P.
Australian sport.
Early days but it sounds VERY bad.
RIP....."Reg Presley" ....... Lead Singer of the 60`s group The Troggs......Wild Thing and the likes !!
Yeah never really got to the same heights as the Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Small Faces etc but I had a soft spot for The Troggs.
I really liked it when Reg got into Ufology and Crop Circles. As a fellow Fortean Reg, RIP mate.
RIP
Richard Briers actor from The Good Life British sit com.
Kevin Black DJ from Hauraki days.
Probably a couple of people not widly known by todays generation but well known to us older folk.
RIP
Richard Briers actor from The Good Life British sit com.
Kevin Black DJ from Hauraki days.
Probably a couple of people not widly known by todays generation but well known to us older folk.
Richard Briers was an epic Englishman, Tom, Martin and he did Roobarb and Custard, (yes I know what it was called). Back home he is considered a national treasure, horrible news.
Roobarb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aVXeDg3U4 so well written "Custard loitered off..."
Some of Blackies prank calls make todays efforts look bloody hopeless.A bloody legend,
RIP Blackie. Remember when he had a TV show as well.
RIP....."Reg Presley" ....... Lead Singer of the 60`s group The Troggs......Wild Thing and the likes !!
Ah... 'Wild Thing".... Sung impromptu/a cappella by moi in a Parisian bar when I saw that the chanteuse had left her microphone on - this between the All Whites 1st & 2nd Confed Cup games in 2003 (defeat to Japan/defeat to Colombia - but such a great goal by Raf!) - much to the consternation of a less than pissed Tru Blue. Life without Reg would have been so much poorer.
Roobarb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aVXeDg3U4 so well written "Custard loitered off..."
Kevin Ayres RIP. Ex Soft Machine, died yesterday in the South of France aged 68. "You'll never shine if you don't burn."
"The most important under-acknowledged innovator in contemporary British music." - John Peel.
What's wrong with you people, no love for the Dalek?
What's wrong with you people, no love for the Dalek?
He might have been moved on but there's no need to be nasty.
Philip Leishman, gone too soon. Very sad day.
Roobarb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aVXeDg3U4 so well written "Custard loitered off..."
Noooooooo ffs can everyone please stop dying!!! Henry's Cat is no more.
20 Years ago that Bobby Moore died. Wow. Great Leader, Great Man
Philip Leishman, gone too soon. Very sad day.
"Alvin Lee" of "Ten Years After" passed away this week......I might have to dust off "Crickelwood Green" and reminisce
Also "Kenny Ball" the jazz trumpter passed away.........What will the Jazzmen do ??????
RIP....Frank Thorton..........Captain Peacock from Are You Bing Served
Gone to the big menswear dept in the sky.
Gone to the big menswear dept in the sky.
He'll be trying to get Alf Garnet into Hardy Amies as we write.
RIP....."Norman Collier".....one of the last of the great comics from the North of England....does a better chicken than our Ernie !!!
Kenny Ball, the Dagenham bugler, aged 82. RIP
Not dead yet, but reckons he won't see out the year due to terminal cancer.
Iain Banks/Iain M Banks the Scottish writer of fiction and SF. I was just about the right age when Banks appeared and although I've not read all of his stuff, I've certainly read most of it. Loved Espedair Street. Adored his The Culture novels which to me were a million times more enjoyable and readable than all the Cyberpunk stuff that was around at the same time and Gibson I'm pointing at you here, you bored me to tears.
I am gutted. David Gemmel died a few years ago and he was one of my favs. I've always kept my eye out for Banks. Wonderful vision, very saddened by this.
Not dead yet, but reckons he won't see out the year due to terminal cancer.
Iain Banks/Iain M Banks the Scottish writer of fiction and SF. I was just about the right age when Banks appeared and although I've not read all of his stuff, I've certainly read most of it. Loved Espedair Street. Adored his The Culture novels which to me were a million times more enjoyable and readable than all the Cyberpunk stuff that was around at the same time and Gibson I'm pointing at you here, you bored me to tears.
I am gutted. David Gemmel died a few years ago and he was one of my favs. I've always kept my eye out for Banks. Wonderful vision, very saddened by this.
Not good form to put someone into an obituary column while still alive. He might beat it yet.
Not dead yet, but reckons he won't see out the year due to terminal cancer.
Iain Banks/Iain M Banks the Scottish writer of fiction and SF. I was just about the right age when Banks appeared and although I've not read all of his stuff, I've certainly read most of it. Loved Espedair Street. Adored his The Culture novels which to me were a million times more enjoyable and readable than all the Cyberpunk stuff that was around at the same time and Gibson I'm pointing at you here, you bored me to tears.
I am gutted. David Gemmel died a few years ago and he was one of my favs. I've always kept my eye out for Banks. Wonderful vision, very saddened by this.
Not good form to put someone into an obituary column while still alive. He might beat it yet.
If you'd read his farewell letter to his family and fans, Iain accepts he has no chance as the Cancer has spread to his Lymph Nodes. He is amazing, so darkly upbeat about everything as you would expect. He intends to marry his long term partner and she has agreed in his words to become his "widow".
He's not talking about beating it, pinning his hopes on some fantastical cure is not his way. Instead he wants to embrace this stage of his life with bravery and acceptance so he can prepare for the inevitability of his passing, enjoy whats left and not waste his time. I find his courage and strength staggering. He is not going to get saved at the last minute like a hero in a Hollywood film. This is life, sometimes beautiful, sometimes cruel and unfair.
It reminds me of Robert Silverberg's great Novella "Going". I'm sure Banks has read that too.
Yes he is not dead yet but as we don't have a "terminally ill and dying thread" and seeing that Iain himself wouldn't give two sh*ts I put it in the RIP thread.
Safe journey Iain Banks.
the Thatch is gone. I can see this thread turning punchy
the Thatch is gone. I can see this thread turning punchy
Whatever we say she won't be turning in her grave. "This lady is not for turning".
Time for a street party.
My memories of Maggie.Dodging the poll tax riots.Football id cards.
Fun times.
To Me....She will always go down as the person who encouraged others to write music !!
Morrissey................Margaret On The Guillotine The Beat........... Stand Down Magaret
Billy Bragg...............Thatcherites The Larks...........Maggie Maggie Maggie (Out Out Out)
Elvis Costello..........Tramp The Dirt Down Exploited.............Maggie You Cunt
Just a few, there are many more
To Me....She will always go down as the person who encouraged others to write music !!
Morrissey................Margaret On The Guillotine The Beat........... Stand Down Magaret
Billy Bragg...............Thatcherites The Larks...........Maggie Maggie Maggie (Out Out Out)
Elvis Costello..........Tramp The Dirt Down Exploited.............Maggie You Cunt
Just a few, there are many more
Thatcher on Acid.
Did she inspire any other band names?
To Me....She will always go down as the person who encouraged others to write music !!
Morrissey................Margaret On The Guillotine The Beat........... Stand Down Magaret
Billy Bragg...............Thatcherites The Larks...........Maggie Maggie Maggie (Out Out Out)
Elvis Costello..........Tramp The Dirt Down Exploited.............Maggie You Cunt
Just a few, there are many more
Thatcher on Acid.
Did she inspire any other band names?
No, but 'Don't cry for me Argentina'.
Brew your own it's about to ferment
No Maggie Thatcher and no government.
Time for a street party.
Already slightly horrified but the positive media coverage of her life. Even though I was very young, as part of a working class family I understood how she destroyed whole communities. Many industries needed a shake-up but the speed she ripped people out of their jobs - god. She is responsible for the terrible place Britain is today. When she ruled we knew we were not a country. Horrible women.
Anger and regret rekindled in those who still feel that Thatcherism ruined their lives and wrecked their communities
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 April 2013 20.21 BST
In death, as she had been in life, Margaret Thatcher proved to be a deeply divisive figure, with former opponents vocal in their criticism of her on Monday.
To no one's surprise, news of her death prompted expressions of satisfaction and even delight on social media. "May she burn in hell fires" tweeted George Galloway, who also quoted an Elvis Costello protest song, "Tramp the dirt down".
The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, was among the first to react, offering a scathing assessment of Thatcher's political legacy. He said she had done "great hurt to the Irish and British people during her time as British prime minister. Here in Ireland her espousal of old draconian militaristic policies prolonged the war and caused great suffering."
No amount of genuine dismay at such sentiments within the rival family of Thatcher admirers – those new mobile classes of the skilled and the newly rich identified by the BBC's social survey only last week – or Fleet Street's synthetic finger-pointing could inhibit the toasts and cheers. Some people claim to have kept champagne bottles in the fridge for the occasion for decades.
Any satisfaction that Britain's first female prime minister – and their personal enemy – is dead mingled with burning anger and regrets rekindled in those who still feel that Thatcherism ruined their lives and wrecked their communities. The further north, the more visible it was among people who felt she cared nothing for them, their skills or values or for a slower, gentler world. In Scotland her legacy has crippled the Tory vote and may contribute to the breakup of Britain, one of many ironies for her own declared values.
David Hopper, general secretary of the Durham Miners Association, now a shadow of its once mighty self, in part thanks to Thatcher's defeat of the miners union, spoke for millions – the white-collar teachers and clerical workers, nurses and bus drivers as well as former industrial workers – who blamed Thatcher for the loss of livelihoods that globalisation and technology might have taken anyway, but without her blunt coup de grace.
"It looks like one of the best birthdays I have ever had," said the ex-miner, 70 on Monday, who spent all of his working life at Wearmouth colliery. "There's no sympathy from me for what she did to our community. She destroyed our community, our villages and our people. For the union this could not come soon enough and I'm pleased that I have outlived her."
Thatcher supporters will recoil from such sentiments as unfair and blind to economic realities and the selfish, sectional stranglehold then exercised by unions on behalf of their members. In 1979 it could take several months to obtain a phone – a landline installed by a state monopoly, the Post Office.
But such talk will not sway the likes of Hopper."I imagine we will have a counter-demonstration when they have her funeral," he said.
"Our children have got no jobs and the community is full of problems. There's no work and no money and it's very sad the legacy she has left behind. She absolutely hated working people and I have got very bitter memories of what she did. She turned all the nation against us and the violence that was meted out on us was terrible. I would say to those people who want to mourn her that they're lucky she did not treat them like she treated us."
It was Thatcher's misfortune that her insights were not tempered with much sympathetic imagination for people unlike herself – "is he one of us?" in the famous phrase – or by humour or emollient wit, by homely style or evident personal weakness. She had tender feelings (her staff liked her), but rarely let them show in public until that last tear after her party ejected her from power with a crude, male brutality she had not expected.
Even among the party faithful it made her more admired than loved. On holiday among friends the restless workaholic was not easy company. Among those she worsted in political battles it all made it much easier to hate her. Few prime ministers in Britain have been burned in effigy.
The gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said Thatcher was "an extraordinary woman but she was extraordinary for mostly the wrong reasons. During her rule, arrests and convictions for consenting same-sex behaviour rocketed, as did queer-bashing violence and murder. Gay men were widely demonised and scapegoated for the Aids pandemic and Thatcher did nothing to challenge this vilification."
Ken Livingstone also offered a critical assessment. He blamed Thatcher for causing unemployment and leaving people dependent on welfare: "She decided when she wrote off our manufacturing industry that she could live with two or three million unemployed," he said.