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krj
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Obituaries
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Sep 27 06:00 UTC 1991 |
We had an item for obituaries of music figures once.
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krj
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response 1 of 21:
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Sep 27 06:15 UTC 1991 |
My favorite concert performer, English folksinger Peter Bellamy, is
dead at the age of 47. He took his own life with pills and alcohol last
week. Bellamy first rose to prominence with The Young Tradition, an
acapella singing group of the 60's. Later, as a solo performer, he was
known for setting the poetry of Rudyard Kipling to music; he recorded about
five albums of Kipling song. He was a funny, enthusiastic and charming
performer whose best qualities were never adequately captured on recording
tape.
Bellamy seems to have grown increasingly bitter about his lack of even
moderate financial success, and I suspect this played a role in his suicide.
At his last concert appearance in East Lansing in fall 1990, he was selling
bootleg copies of his own out-of-print recordings. In an interview published
in FOLK ROOTS in April 1991, he complained of a left-wing conspiracy to
keep him and other singers of *real* traditional song out of the scene.
I know I frequently felt sorry for the meagre turnout at his East Lansing
appearances; once in the mid-80's, when his concert was ill-timed for
finals week and the first major snowstorm, only ten people paid to hear him.
I loved his great voice and his great talent, and I know others did too.
Just last weekend I learned that there was a new Bellamy recording (a CD,
even!) -- SONGS AND RUMMY on Britain's Fellside label.
I have been pretty much in a state of shock since I heard the news this
afternoon. It's just so hard to accept that I'll never hear him sing my
favorite songs again.
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danr
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response 2 of 21:
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Sep 29 13:50 UTC 1991 |
I'm not a great obituary writer, but I thought I would report that
Miles Davis died yesterday of a stroke.
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goose
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response 3 of 21:
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Oct 1 03:28 UTC 1991 |
And Brother Rob Tyner former lead singer for the MC5 died about a week
ago of a heart attack in his Michigan home.
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katie
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response 4 of 21:
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Oct 12 17:55 UTC 1991 |
Gamble Rogers drowned on Thusrsday. He was trying to save a drowning
man in the ocean, and both drowned.
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mcnally
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response 5 of 21:
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Oct 12 21:10 UTC 1991 |
Who was Gamble Rogers?
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arabella
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response 6 of 21:
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Oct 13 05:12 UTC 1991 |
Oh my god, that's horrible. Gamble Rogers was one of my favorite
folk performers. I just saw him in August at the Philadelphia
Folk Festival. My mother will be heartbroken.
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mew
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response 7 of 21:
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Oct 16 04:11 UTC 1991 |
Wow. I am really sorry to hear that. I finally got a chance to hear him
a bit at the Philly folk fest. I was sorry I missed most of his set.
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mcnally
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response 8 of 21:
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Nov 25 07:07 UTC 1991 |
I heard on CIMX tonight that Freddy Mercury died Sunday of bronchial
pneumonia and complications from AIDS. There had been rumors circulating
on the net for a while that he was quite ill and some speculation that it
was AIDS but from what I gather they had only publically admitted that he
was suffering from AIDS in the last few days.
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furs
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response 9 of 21:
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Nov 25 12:10 UTC 1991 |
Wow.
I love Freddy Mercury. That is sad.
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md
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response 10 of 21:
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Nov 25 14:19 UTC 1991 |
The composer of "STOMP STOMP CLAP" -- the one piece I bet he least
expected to be remembered by, and look what's happened to it.
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craig
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response 11 of 21:
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Nov 25 15:45 UTC 1991 |
You mean "We will rock you"?
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md
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response 12 of 21:
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Nov 25 17:04 UTC 1991 |
Yep.
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polygon
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response 13 of 21:
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Nov 27 01:40 UTC 1991 |
Ugh.
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krj
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response 14 of 21:
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Nov 27 06:38 UTC 1991 |
Hollywood Records is probably in deep mourning. They paid lots of money --
I don't recall the exact amount, but it was big -- to sign Queen for new
albums and get the back catalog. The first new album under the contract
was a commercial flop, and now it looks like there won't be any subsequent
ones. Oh well, there's always the morbid post-death burst of sales.
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goose
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response 15 of 21:
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Nov 27 17:32 UTC 1991 |
Eric Carr the most recent drummer for KISS has died at the age of 41
after a bout with cancer.
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ecl
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response 16 of 21:
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Nov 27 19:22 UTC 1991 |
Klaus Kinski just died too, but I don't think he sung anything.
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hawkeye
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response 17 of 21:
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Dec 2 20:11 UTC 1991 |
I'm waiting for Hollywood Records to milk the Queen catalog. Once all
the individual albums are out (if they are not already), then we'll see
the box set(s) and the unreleased material come flying out.
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mcnally
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response 18 of 21:
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Dec 3 03:58 UTC 1991 |
They were apparently in the process of releasing most or all of the
stuff here (if they haven't already..)
Word on the net has it that there were 4 (or so) tracks that were
either material for the next album or outtakes from the last that will
be released sometime soon. I didn't pay much attention since I've never
been a huge Queen fan, but if anyone's interested, I suppose I could
find out.
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krj
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response 19 of 21:
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Dec 4 04:02 UTC 1991 |
I saw an unconfirmed net rumor today that there are three or four
Queen albums in the can, all recorded for posterity after Mercury was
diagnosed, but I wouldn't place too much faith in that.
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arabella
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response 20 of 21:
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Jun 26 22:46 UTC 1992 |
Well, thanks at least in part to "Wayne's World," the Queen
catalog is indeed being milked. Who'd have thought to see
"Bohemian Rhapsody" become a hit all over again, never mind
an even bigger hit than the first time?
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bad
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response 21 of 21:
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Jun 27 03:53 UTC 1992 |
Yeah, the movie and Freddie's death.
Bleagh.
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