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Amazing coincidence how many prisons around the world have metal shops where these types of prisoners end up together :thinking:
No tears shed

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All a bit too quick and painless for my liking but at least he’s dead. Every cloud and all that.

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Oh shit, another I missed that one produced the great Clapton/Mayall Bluesbreakers Beano album and the early Fleetwood Mac stuff

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Shared with me on a music evening group:

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:cry:

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Finest protest song of 'em all. You could update the place names, but not the sentiments, sadly. RIP.

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Saw him quite a few times in my younger metal years.

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Wayne Perkins, 74.

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Started out in Alabama as a session musician, playing with Joe Cocker, Jimmy Cliff, and others, which brought him an offer to join Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Later recruited by Bob Marley and played on three tracks on the album ‘Catch a Fire’. This was a huge contribution to his approach to later work: "I had never heard the likes of. Compared to anything else I had ever heard in my life, the R&B, the church music, anything I had ever heard, this was backward.”

He was then given the opportunity to replace the departed Mick Taylor in The Rolling Stones, and he played on three tracks on ‘Black and Blue’. Keith Richards liked him: "He was a lovely player, same style, which wouldn’t have ricocheted against what Mick Taylor was doing, very melodic, very well-played stuff.” That place went to Ronnie Wood for no other reason than because Ronnie was English.

He later played on Joni Mitchell’s ‘Car on a Hill’ from the ‘Court and Spark’ album, at which time he and Joni were a couple.

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Genuinely quite sad about that.

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Chuck Norris didn’t die. We all did.

RIP Chuck. A true legend.

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So sad but inconceivable that Chuck could be gone :cry:

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Dame Jenni Murray. A great broadcaster. So very sad.

See here

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fuck, same age as me.

He’s had a few drug related heart attacks though.

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One of the best.

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Dash (Darrell) Crofts, of Seals & Croft, best known for ‘Summer Breeze’, passed at 85 following complications in heart surgery.

Other notable hits include ‘Year of Sunday’, ‘Dianond Girl’, and ‘Get Closer’.

Jim Seals, the other half of S&C, passed in 2022. The pair joined The Champs in 1958.

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