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Joy Beverley of The Beverley Sisters R.I.P.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34114836

Jim Breeds… Is she the last of them?

Alan Esdaile… It says the other sisters are still alive. Remember them on every variety show when I was growing up.

Jim Breeds… Me too. My Mum loved ’em. Me? Well at least they didn’t play Hawaiian guitars 🙂 Sunday Night At The London Palladium was the sort of show they kept on cropping up on I think. And on the BBC Light Programme.

Matt Thomas… Joy was the eldest and was married to footballer Billy Wright. Always appeared in the middle even when appearing in the audience of the ‘Audience with’ programmes.

Wendy Weaver… When I was a teenager they were in the Summer Show at the Pavilion in Bournemouth. I worked opposite and saw them almost on a daily basis. They were lovely and always dressed exactly the same right down to handbags, shoes and headbands. They were really friendly with everyone and were always smiling I think this must have been the year Joy married Billy Wright in Poole

Cilla Black dies aged 72.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33751060

Jim Breeds… I’m only on my phone but it looks like no-one has shared this story yet  frown emoticon. Cilla Black dies aged 72

Chris Giles… Very sad another legend from my childhood passes away

Peter Millington… So many people will be mourning her departure from this life. I saw her on Hastings Pier on 4th April 1964 backed by Sounds Incorporated.

Andy Qunta… Sorry to hear this. Cilla was a great singer & entertainer, & seemed like a lovely person too. RIP.

Alan Esdaile… very sad news, R.I.P. Cilla.

Mick O’Dowd… It’s getting mighty crowded up there!

Leigh Wieland-Boys… Very sad news

Sarah Harvey… 🙁 A legend

Andre Martin… RIP Liverpool Lass

Jim Breeds… It’s not a lorra lorra laffs, this one, is it? Still, I expect St. Peter was shocked when she turned up calling out “Surprise, Surprise!!!!”

Caz Simpson… I was on the Pier at the same time as Peter, I’ve loved her ever since. So very sad.

Alan Pepper… Ta – Ra Chuck ! Will be missed . Another sad loss and thanks for the great performances.  Loved Step inside love and Alfie especially.

Val Doonican dies aged 88

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33363938

posted by Barry Newton

John Laidlaw…  R.I.P., Val… frown emoticon.

John Wilde… Thanks Val. You were unique. Journey on.

Jane Hartley… Used to love his programmes RIP Val x

Jacqueline Marsh…. A lovely man, watch a documentary last year, was a funny man and very genuine RIP

Andre Martin… A great entertainer who was so much part of our growing up on both the Radio and Television – RIP you old Trouper you can now take a long sit down in your rocking chair, and the angels can knit you some new jumpers.

Jim Breeds… My parents antidote to the evil wave of rock and pop sweeping the country corrupting us kids and ending civilisation as they had known it was to settle down to watch the Val Doonican Show every week. I watched too in a sort of ‘WTF is this?’ way. Actually, I mostly enjoyed it. It might have helped fire the then nascent love of folk music that grew and has been with me all my life. He had some great gustes on from time to time too. I still have a couple of Val Doonican LPs that Mum & Dad bought. They are filed in the box that also has Wout Steenhuis in it. Rock (ing chair) In Peace Val.

Peter Fairless… Keep rockin’, Val!

David Miller… Part of the soundtrack of my youth…and i wanted his guitar. Many blessings….

Chris Meachen… An essential part of growing up in our generation, Val was entertaining, funny & kind.. Another light goes out in our world..

Leigh Wieland Boys… Such sad news, spent many an evening with my parents watching his show. I still remember Val singing Scarlet Ribbons. RIP dear man

Alan Esdaile… Yes I remember watching The Val Doonican Show. My parents loved If The Whole World Stopped Lovin’. He certainly introduced us to lots of songs and I also liked his version of Scarlet Ribbons. Nice genuine guy even though he did knock the Beatles Sgt Peppers album off the number one spot. R.I.P.

Dave Nattress… Val was definitely uncool when I was a lad but my Ma and Pa used to watch him Saturday night and I by default did too sometimes. My dad bought an EP of his with Delaney’s Donkey and Paddy McGinty’s Goat on it and I recall these 2 quite funny, lyrically quite clever tracks well ,being played on MY record player by the old man! We must respect Val’s musicality, and he’s just more little bit of us or our growing up – well those of us a bit older, that’s now gone.

Andy Qunta… Great entertainer, & seemed like genuinely lovely fella! RIP

Jim Hobbs… A forgotten part of my life’s soundtrack. Good old Val on a Saturday night. Top man RIP.

Chris Squire – Yes bassist dies

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source: jambase.com

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/125601/In-Memoriam-Yes-Bassist-Chris-Squire

Alan Esdaile… Another Great musician, very sad news.

Jim Breeds… It’s like playing skittles lately 🙁 I guess they are all getting to a certain age.

Chris Meachen… Shocked & saddened, another huge talent lost…

John Wilde… Thank you Chris. You were a gentleman when we met. still in awe of your contribution. Journey on good Soul.

Graham Burfield… a great loss to the music world

Graham Belchamber… Very sad news.

Andy Qunta… One of the very best bass players I’ve ever heard. Was fortunate to meet him a couple of times, and he was a lovely fella. RIP.

David Miller… It’s been a pleasure…bless you on the journey.

Leigh Wieland-Boys… Sad news

Steve Kinch… A real influence on me. A true one off!

Barry M Dyke… Steve, that explains your skills. Where did Gaz miss out?

Mark Gilham… Another legend lost 🙁

Lucy Pappas… So sad, a great musician

Sarah Harvey… This is sadly becoming all too frequent. Its all so sad :-{

Jim Breeds…. I only saw Yes the one time – at Glastonbury in maybe 2004, 5 or 6. I think Chris Squire was in the lineup. Rick Wakeman certainly was, unusually! On the Jazz stage I think. I know the sun beat down with a vengeance, unusually for Glasto. Superb stuff. I  just checked – Yes’s August 2015 gig will be the first that Squire didn’t play at, so he was at Glasto.

Andy Qunta… Sorry to hear about the passing of Chris Squire. Met him briefly a couple of times, and seemed to be a lovely fella! He is one of the greatest bass players I’ve ever heard. However, “bass player” is not enough to describe him, as that would put him in a category with many others, whereas I would put him in a category of two – him and John Entwhistle. They were the first players of the rock era, in my opinion, that brought bass playing to the fore, playing lead lines as much as bass lines. Thanks for the music and the inspiration, Chris! RIP!

Phil Gill… A sad loss and a one off in terms of bass playin. He was a huge influence on me and inspiration for my seminal forays into the dark arts of bass playing.

Alan Wood…. How sad,still full of life last year at the Albert Hall,RIP

Dennis Torrance… Just watching Who on tv, just seen news, totally gutted, am Yes fan

Paul Dove… Yet another legend gone sad day

Iain Cobby… My reason for buying a Rickenbacker 4001 back in the mid 70’s. My 4004 now has a black ribbon on it. This man defined the instrument with his innovative lines, and lets not forget his vox. with Jon Anderson their harmony’s were peerless in creating that Yes sound.
“All those moments, lost in time, like tears in rain” thanks for you legacy Chris, R.I.P.

Jim Breeds… Brian May on Chris Squire. Fascinating read about the connection between Yes and Queen.

http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbjun15.html#22

James Last – big band leader dies.

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b/w photo source: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 – negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24.01.05, bestanddeelnummer 923-3019

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33075466

Dave Luck… Very talented musician and composer. R.I.P

Jim Breeds… A bit like when I just heard that Marguerite Patten has died I’d have to say I had no idea he was still alive. I still have Dad’s James Last LPs.

Alan Esdaile… When I was very young, I think most parties would put on a James Last album. He did some very odd tracks, I think Matt Thomas remembers him doing a version of Hawkwind’s Silver Machine!

Jim Breeds… Goodness me! I had no idea!

Alan Esdaile… Very bizarre.

Graham Burfield… R.I.P. James Last

Matt Thomas… I would so love to get the James Last album my dad used to play endlessly,think it was called Non Stop Dancing 72 or 73!!!!!! That had Silver Machine and Schools Out on it lo.

Dave Luck… I think probably his best concert he did in 1978, live in London.

Paul Kilford…. noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Mark Edir… Historic man

BB King – The King Of The Blues dies

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Photo: Roland Godefroy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32747861

Alan Esdaile… R.I.P. BB King.

Martin Richter…  the thrill is gone……

Robert Searle… Poor old BB King RIP

Geoff Peckham… A sad day for Blues lovers. Here’s where the word ‘legend’ really applies.

Paul Morfey… Very sad, a true legend !!

John Wilde… Thank you BB, another voice from the soundtrack of my life passes. journey on Bright Soul.

Samuel Freeman… Sad news another legend taken from us R I P BB

Leigh Wieland-Boys… Another sad loss xx

Jim Hobbs… Oh BB … God must be in need of some great music. The world has the blues today! A HUGE loss to the blues world, what a star he was!

Jim Breeds… A true great.

Mick O’Dowd… There’s too many going too quickly. It’s frightening. This man deserves to be called a legend. R.I.P.

Eric Cawthraw… Well he didn’t get up this morning – on this good earth, but he and Lucille will be up and about in that other one!…bless him.

Ben E King – dies aged 76

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photo 2 source: AxelBoldt

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32547474

Colin Bell… Saddened to hear of the sad loss today of Ben E King. I first met him at Aquarius in George Street back in (I believe from memory) 1971 when I was dj ing there. I was struck by how such a big voice came out of a man such physically small in stature, his talent was of course huge in stature. Another legend passes on. R.I.P. and thank you for the memories.

Alan Esdaile… Very sad news. We were only talking about him the other day. Great voice. R.I.P. Ben E King.

Will Cornell…  I do wish the headlines wouldn’t focus so much on the one song. He had a ton of them both as a solo act and as a Drifter…and he replaced Clyde McPhatter, no mean feat. “Stand By Me Singer Dead at 76” makes him out to be a one-hit wonder, and he wasn’t. Did the headlines following George Harrison’s death just mention “My Sweet Lord”?

Robert Searle… RIP Ben E King lovely singer

Graham Belchamber… A real.shame. I saw him with Gary Us Bonds a few years ago in Tunbridge Wells. Great performer and character.

Anne Wells… Into The Mystic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BISEY44NhQ

Geoff Peckham… Great shame. Marvellous singer. I saw him at the Aquarius in ’71 too, Colin. He was fantastic. Perhaps not the time for it, but I have a tale about his backing singers that night, the Three Tons of Joy.

Alan Pepper… Sad news about Mr Ben E King another soul giant leaves us !! They must have an awesome Supergroup up there by now Save the last dance for me fellas !!

Mick O’Dowd… Another sad loss to the greats of my generation. I saw him and met him backstage at the Aquarius where he signed an album cover for me. This has sadly got lost in the passing time. A true legend.