Mandy Lifeboats Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 1 hour ago, veloman said: Terry Hall gone. What will happen to Lenny The Lion now then ? Lenny is taking it really hard. He hasn't said a word to anyone since Terry died. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imavillan Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 A Villa supporter by all accounts HEITS 9 hours ago, cyrusr said: Martin Duffy, Primal Scream keyboard died aged 55 https://www.nme.com/news/music/primal-screams-martin-duffy-has-died-aged-55-3369531 8 hours ago, bickster said: Martin Duffy of Felt, Primal Scream and The Charlatans. That's another shocker. Lawrence and Duffy were the artistic core of Felt F*** thats more bad news Thats two West Midlands legends in a day 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 20, 2022 Moderator Share Posted December 20, 2022 Ffs Iain Templeton of Shack, Michael Head & The Strands and The Las gone now too. Three in 24 hrs. It’s starting to feel personal. Not a personal friend as such but we used to be on nodding terms 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Horace Panters FB post on Terry Halls death. Quote The Specials. Terry. This is what happened. We had it all planned out. Make the album we were going to do in 2020 – a reggae album. Record in Los Angeles in November. We had the studio booked, flights paid for, accommodation sorted. Roger Rivas from The Agrolites was going to co-produce. Shepard Fairey was going to do the cover. Lynval, still recovering from his spinal surgery earlier in the year, was over in the UK and raring to go. Terry had the framework for 8 tunes. Confidence was high. We were set to meet up with Nikolaj and make magic. This was in September. Terry e-mails everyone and says he’s in bed with a stomach bug and can’t do the first week of pre-production sessions. No big deal, we can knock everything back a week. We’re not due to fly out until November 4th. The next week, Terry is no better and is in hospital. There’s not much we can do except wait for him to get better. Sunday October 2nd and I get a phone call from Manager Steve. And everything turns to shit. Terry’s illness is a lot worse than we thought. He has been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas which has spread to his liver. This is serious. Like life-threatening serious. He has developed diabetes due to his pancreas being attacked. This has to be treated first, then it’s a regime of chemotherapy. There is nothing anyone can do. Everything is put on hold. Terry is emphatic that no-one be told about this. If anyone asks, he’s managing his diabetes. The chemo treatment starts favourably but it seems that it would be March 2023 at the earliest before we’d be in any position to work. He is in and out of hospital to stabilise the diabetes issue and also to manage pain. It then goes quiet. Beginning of December and reports are not good. Terry has lost a lot of weight and is very frail. His friend Ian Broudie visits and phones Manager Steve. He fears that Terry is slipping away. 15th December and Manager Steve drives up to London to visit. He calls me on his return journey and says things are not looking promising. Terry is dying. The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time. I thought it would be best for me to go and visit but Lindy, his wife, advises against it. She has held her phone to Terry’s ear so that his sisters and Lynval can say their goodbyes. She suggests I do the same. So, I did. It was tough. Terry died around half past 5 the next evening, Sunday 18th December. The world has lost a unique voice and I have lost a good friend. Horace. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted December 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2022 Mike Hodges (Film Director / scriptwriter known for Get Carter and Flash Gordon) R.I.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 The inventor of the chicken tikka masala has died. Feels like that needs a punch line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomav84 Posted December 21, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted December 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Paddywhack said: The inventor of the chicken tikka masala has died. Feels like that needs a punch line. real shame that. love a tikka masala me. it's second to naan 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Paddywhack said: The inventor of the chicken tikka masala has died. Feels like that needs a punch line. His tikka gave out? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Steelers RB Franco Harris 72, most famous for one of the most famous plays in nfl history I think it's the 50 year anniversary of that play this week too and the steelers play the raiders this weekend 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted December 22, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2022 5 hours ago, villa4europe said: Steelers RB Franco Harris 72, most famous for one of the most famous plays in nfl history I think it's the 50 year anniversary of that play this week too and the steelers play the raiders this weekend I remember seeing that on TV as it happened. I was 11 and was at the local shopping mall doing my Christmas shopping. In those days stores that sold TVs and the like often had the TVs on in the shop window. A bunch of us were gathered around to watch the end of the game. I was in Kansas City, and the Raiders were the big enemies in those days, and the Steelers had been crap forever, so everyone was so bummed out that the Raiders were about to go to the Super Bowl again as the clock ran down. The noise from that area rang out through the mall as Harris scored. That store was at the edeg of an atrium that went 3 stories up, and people were looking over the rails from the upper levels wondering what the hubbub was all about. Indelibly stamped in my memory. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Rockabilly singer Charlie Gracie has died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Ex Super Bowl winner Ronnie Hillman. Only 31 y.o, Cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted December 22, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2022 26 minutes ago, sne said: Ex Super Bowl winner Ronnie Hillman. Only 31 y.o, Cancer. Best year in his career during that Super Bowl run. RIP fellow Bronco! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted December 22, 2022 Moderator Share Posted December 22, 2022 That one's just bizarre. 31. Ridiculous age. Poor guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 23, 2022 Moderator Share Posted December 23, 2022 England World Cup Winner - George Cohen as passed (away) 83 Only Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst left now I think 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 On 20/12/2022 at 11:11, veloman said: Terry Hall gone. What will happen to Lenny The Lion now then ? I always thought Terry Hall was a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2022 Thom Bell (Philly soul producer/songwriter/musician), 79. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 45 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Thom Bell (Philly soul producer/songwriter/musician), 79. Left a great body of work. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villa4europe Posted December 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 24, 2022 Maxi jazz lead singer of faithless 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted December 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2022 7 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Maxi jazz lead singer of faithless no way! that's a shocker...one of the best live acts i've seen. wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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