Although not in the least bit famous, I lost my godmother at 96 years of age recently and my brother’s cat and my neighbour’s cat have both died recently. Damn you 2016.
Death is never of the front page in 2016
Greg Lake of Emerson Lake and Palmer has passed on at 69 another from cancer
No, not at Christmas!
Please 2016, at least spare Noddy Holder and Roy Wood, that would be too much.
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Urrrghhh…at the time of year when we get hear the best Christmas Song of all time, “I believe in Father Christmas”.
“I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there’ll be snow at Christmas
They said there’ll be peace on earth
Hallelujah, Noel be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve”
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And, my (and many others) favorite from King Crimson:
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Bloody hell. They were my favourite band in the 70s. Bit of a choker with Keith Emerson going earlier this year. Greg had put an awful lot of weight on a few years back and there were rumours that he wasnt well. I meet him once after a show, really decent guy. Fucking hell.
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The guy had a wonderful voice. Truly gutted.
I’ve got tickets to see Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman next March, I wonder how many of them will still be here? 
I’m a complete cunt and can’t post links to YouTube videos…
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Living up to their reputation of never doing anything by halves, the sequence of Greg singing in a cave was the very cave where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
RIP John Glenn, the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth and the first man to walk in space.
Great in Frasier.
AA Gill has filed his last column.
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Originally posted by @Goatboy
AA Gill has filed his last column.
Oh dear and noshed his last free meal…RIP.
Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.
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AA Gill has filed his last column.
Not sure which news programme it was on but he didn’t come across as very nice. Unusual as when people die everyone says how nice they were.
They do. Probably following the old maxim not to speak ill of the dead. I worked with a guy who really was quite unpleasant. He died suddenly at work. I couldnt bring myself to say anything nice about him afterwards as it seemed rank hipocricy. Still, I suppose it isnt the done thing to call someone a total asshat in their obit.
