Obituary Column

[SillyCowCorner1]

Rip

 

[nick-o]

Good Golly, Miss Molly

The grandaddy of pretty much everything that followed

RIP, Little Richard

 

[BoyBrumby]

Vale. One of the greats.

There's a great, but probably apocryphal story regarding The Kinks and Little Richard.

On tour in the states Ray Davies and co wanted to use the great man's studio to lay down some new tracks. However they lacked the requisite funds to hire the facilities, so Ray effectively pimped out his younger bisexual brother Dave to Little Richard as payment in kind.

Like I said, probably not true at all, but The Kinks were banned from touring the US for five years for their delinquent behaviour, so it kinda fits the mythos anyway.

 

[Burgey]

Vale Jack Mundey. Almost single handedly saved the Rocks from development in the 70s with the BLF-led Green Bans. A giant. Rest in power, Comrade.

 

[morgieb]

Jerry Stiller

 

[wpdavid]

Vale. One of the greats.

There's a great, but probably apocryphal story regarding The Kinks and Little Richard.

On tour in the states Ray Davies and co wanted to use the great man's studio to lay down some new tracks. However they lacked the requisite funds to hire the facilities, so Ray effectively pimped out his younger bisexual brother Dave to Little Richard as payment in kind.

Like I said, probably not true at all, but The Kinks were banned from touring the US for five years for their delinquent behaviour, so it kinda fits the mythos anyway.

And yet strangely omitted from any of the pieces that I read last week.

Good story though.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

RIP Jerry

 

[Gnske]

To think Fred Willard tweeted about the death of Jerry and a day later he joined him. One of the greats, especially for getting caught being filthy in a particular kind of cinema and not having his career hurt at all by it.

 

[_Ed_]

Jeez, sad week.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Sweet guitarist Steve Priest died a couple of days ago aged 72. At the height of Glam Rock in the early 70's Sweet were the best.

 

[grecian]

may not be a great musical composition, but what a ****ing fun tune

 

[BoyBrumby]

may not be a great musical composition, but what a ****ing fun tune

A gift to rhyming slang enthusiasts for nearly half a century now.

Vale.

 

[ankitj]

[FONT=system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif]Sushant Singh Rajput, actor who played MS Dhoni in latter's biopic committed suicide. He was just 34. So so distrubing.[/FONT]

 

[honestbharani]

RIP He was such a good actor too.

 

[duffer]

Absolutely tragic. Man was so talented. Rip bro

 

[Teja.]

That is really sad. RIP.

 

[duffer]

Was being treated for clinical depression. Oh ****, this hits home hard

 

[honestbharani]

 

[vcs]

Oh ****, thought he was excellent in Kai Po Che, really liked that film.

 

[duffer]

Sushant's uncle claiming he was murdered. I feel there's a lot to come out regarding this.