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Lemmy from Motorhead dies.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35192060

Chris Giles… R.I.P. Lemmy

Alan Esdaile.. R.I.P. Lemmy.

Jim Breeds… Shocked 🙁

Nigel Ford… First saw Ian “Lemmy-a fiver” Kilmister as part of HAWKWIND on the pier early 70’s , then in ’75 blowing them offstage as their support , again in the Pier Ballroom. They returned just a month later as headliners. So impressd with them I travelled to Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall and Brighton soon after to see them and while waiting to go into the Top Rank over there an exit door flew open right by us and out he came to a rough old BMW parked right there to get something and my friend and I exchanged plesantries with him as he came back in.
Many gigs since including my only visit to Folkstone Leas Cliff Hall a few years ago mainly to see IN FLAMES but also GIRLSCHOOL (whom I’d also seen a couple of times back in their heyday) and a brilliant set again by Lemmy, Phil & Mickey but it really was painfully LOUD for my old ears!!
R.I.P. LEMMY.

Chris Giles… I’m in shock. Couldn’t believe when I first read it Lemmy R.I.P.

Alan Esdaile… Very shocked to hear the news. I did know he has been ill for awhile but I thought he was invincible. Brilliant memories of seeing Hawkwind and ear shattering Motorhead. Even though the  ears were ringing for days, it didn’t stop me from going back again to see them.

Dave Nattress… Another very sad day, saw this on the news a couple of hours ago. Lemmy’s gone as has a part of so many of us who have grown up following him. A heavy day to get through. RIP doesn’t say enough – maybe keep on rocking and giving serious hell wherever you are might be more appropriate.

Chris Giles… Yep and turn the volume up and play his music loud

Eric Cawthraw… Like many of you seen Lemmy in both Motorhead and Hawkwind. Just going to get my 12″ single of Motorhead out and demolish the front room with a wall of sound! After all that Jack Daniels – if it’s a cremation – it will take a week to put him out. That sounds irreverent, but I’m sure that’s the sort of exit he would want. One thing you can credit Lemmy with was his total commitment to his music and followers – let’s hope there’s a crate of Bourbon waiting at the Pearly Gates.

Graham Belchamber… A great story about Lemmy from Neil Finn of Crowded House/Split Enz fame… Two days after the news of Stevie Wright’s death, we learn of Lemmy’s passing. Neil related this story today:
“dawn check in, Montreal 1981 with Split Enz , a tour bus pulls up outside , Its Motorhead. Lemmy emerges like a marauding Viking, leapfrogs the reception desk and kisses the receptionist full on the mouth. Its bad behaviour but we were impressed… and so Lemmy… may you leapfrog the devil and give St Peter a kiss.”

Colin Bell… Another great loss, remember being in Bluies in Canterbury (Andre and Alan will remember the club!) Lemmy doing Silver Machine. A true one off guy RIP.

Tony Court-holmes… missed but never forgotten rip good rocker hope to meet you. Another star in the sky with a bottle of jack daniels

Clive Richardson… Remember seeing Motorhead first gig at The Roundhouse Chalk Farm London. Very sad news.

Jeff Chuzz Balcombe… SAD SAD day, R I P Lemmy

Carol Arnold… sad news

Philip John… Lemmy Kilmister RIP. A good summing up from John Walsh & Ruth Booth in the Independent. Lemmy was probably one of the last of the old school heavy rockers and one of the best.He will remain a legend. One little known fact :- Lemmy appears as Count Motorhead in a book entitled The Time Of The Hawklords, written in 1976 by Michael Moorcock & Michael Butterworth, part of a sci-fi trilogy where ‘Hawkwind saves the world. he unfortunately doesn’t appear in the follow up book as he’d been fired from the band .

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Mark Gilham…  Nice post Philip

R.I.P. Stevie Wright from The Easybeats.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-35188126

Alan Esdaile… Friday On My Mind is a classic track which stills sounds good today. Most local bands used to play it and I remember Shaft doing a great version.

Andy Knight… Here is the Shaft version.

Terry Huggins… Friday on my mind was a classic, but the rest of their tuff was less memorable. Rhythm guitarist George Young was the elder brother of Angus and Malcolm of AC/DC.

Phil Little… Vic Young, who now lives in Hastings, used to play with Steve Wright in Australia.

Andy Qunta… RIP, Stevie!

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

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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