Don’t know if this is mentioned in the video, but Terry Cox also played on Space Oddity.
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Never heard a note they played, but those homoerotic album covers were worth the price of admission alone 
RIP
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They definitely understood the “it’s metal: furry underpants” assignment 
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I haz the sad…
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Where I first heard her.
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Sad news.
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Indeed. My brother knew him in the late 90’s but he was seriously fucked up by covering & witnessing the Rwanda genocide which rather trivialised his relationships with people back here & was very tough for his then wife.
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Huge amount of time for him, always very easy to listen to and just came across as a really nice and knowledgeable bloke I could happily have on the radio.
Knew he went through a rough spell but didn’t realise it was to do with Rwanda.
Do you know why he was there?
He used to travel a lot, seeking out world music & I guess he was in the vicinity & went into proper BBC journalist mode. But witnessed some awful stuff.
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Bit more official than that, he was branching out from DJ work and did work for the BBC on Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent, Today and The World Tonight.
Andy Kershaw was in Rwanda in 1994 to report on the genocide for the BBC. He and his producers snuck over the border from Burundi to witness and document the unfolding atrocity, which he felt was not being adequately covered by other media outlet
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