Archive for 'RIP'
So farewell Gerry Rafferty and Mick Karn
Gerry Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) Mick Karn (24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011)
Posted: January 5th, 2011 under RIP.
Comments: 4
Sell outs
Michael Bérubé was contacted by the BBC to give an opinion on the Iggy Pop car insurance adverts currently being shown in the UK. They are intensely annoying and impinge on my enjoyment of the new series of Battlestar Galactica. Here are Bérubé’s thoughts. Mr Berube may live in Pennsylvania but thanks to the internet [...]
Posted: February 20th, 2009 under Art, RIP, Rock.
Comments: 26
John Martyn: 11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009
Posted: January 29th, 2009 under RIP.
Comments: 4
The end of The Experience
RIP Mitch Mitchell Jimi Hendrix died in 1971, Noel Redding died in 2003, and now the last surviving member of the rock powerhouse, the Jimi Hendrix Experience has died, aged 61, apparently of natural causes. It seems that the rock pioneers of the 50s and sixties – the ones that didn’t burn out ealy – [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2008 under Music, RIP, Rock.
Comments: 1
RIP: Miriam Makeba
Bad news this morning, the great Miriam Makeba has died, apparently of a heart attack after a show in Italy. She was truly one of the great South African artists of her time, but sadly, like other musicians like Hugh Masekela, the Apartheid regime forced her into exile and most of her career was spent [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under RIP, Uncategorized.
Comments: 1