Sad news.
He’s 2 months younger than me.
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'It’s a sad farewell to old friend in song Brendan Croker who has succumbed to leukaemia. You’ll probably read more about Brendan in obituaries soon. He was a true artist in every way, appeared eccentric to many but was positive, brave and generous to a fault.
We had many happy years sharing music including touring and singing with our mutual pal Steve Phillips in the Notting Hillbillies. The song I can hear Brendan singing now is the one we used to finish our set with, ‘Feel Like Going Home’.
My thoughts are with Brendan’s partner Ali and their friends everywhere.’ - MK
Here is Mark Knopflers tribute to his old pal who sadly died early this week …taken from MK news
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Whipped from the Wam.
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RIP Wychwood Brewery - my “local” when I was in Oxon.
Carlsberg Marstons are shutting the brewery but keeping the names to sell on their identikit industrial chemo-brews.
CUNTS!!!
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Wych was brewing Brakspear’s ales for the last ten years 
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An old favourite from my time as a PhD student…
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Just had a call from my sister; the guy who was killed by dogs in the midlands used to be one of the paperboys at my dad’s shop. I went to primary and middle school with him and knew him well then. Just awful.
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@MGOwner did you see that Ron Barassi has gone to the great footie oval in the sky?
Yeah, saw that earlier. Absolute legend. A bit of a cunt, but a legend nonetheless.
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I’ll whistle a tune in honour of him tomorrow
As a child, on our (almost annual) holiday in Scarborough, my parents announced that we were going to see RW at the Futurist Theatre. I groaned at the thought of sitting through two hours of whistling and (to me) very “old person” music.
He was fantastic.
If only he’d been told that it is the Wear that flows through Durham and not the Tyne 
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Just had one of those “still alive?” moments.
Many memories of my mother and step father listening to his records, and I’ll catch myself singing little snippets on occasion 
Yes, just having the same thoughts. My mum always used to play his and John Denvers records.
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Weird how that happens
My unbidden songs are
Delta Dawn
Island in the Sun
Rose of Tralee (probably because my Mum’s name was Mary and she was from Kerry)
All from my Dad’s repertoire, he had a good voice and used to sing when he was working
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David McCallum. 90.
Many will best remember him as Illya Kuryakin, but he’ll always be ‘The Invisible Man’ for me.
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Sapphire & Steel
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Ducky in NCIS. RIP.
Michael Gambon, 82.
A whole generation will only know him for his work in Harry Potter.
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