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Jamie Reid, artist (including cover of Never Mind the Bollocks)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/09/jamie-reid-artist-of-sex-pistols-record-covers-dies-aged-76

Also a late shout up for our Trev (Trevor Francis), criminally overlooked for England (along with other West Midlands players) as a youngster playing for Birmingham City and all round nice guy.

 

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Bobby Charlton  has hung his boots up for the last time

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63006386

Thought I'd seen him play but he was only on the fringes of the Man U team that season.  Did catch him a few years later in a car park outside a football ground and have his autograph on the programme - he may have been considering a new management challenge following his short lived job at Preston

 

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'Pioneering British writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah has died, aged 65, after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor'

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/benjamin-zephaniah-dead-poetry-racism-birmingham-b2460061.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/07/a-sandy-place-a-recipe-for-a-nation-and-a-christmas-plea-three-poems-by-benjamin-zephaniah

Just been looking at his website and found his penultimate blog post, 'I've Cried a Lot Lately', from the beginning of 2020 which contains some wise words,

'In my last post, or blog, (or whatever you want to call it), I said that rather than ranting on about politics I was letting my music speak for me, although I found that I was spending more and more time on demonstrations. This is still true. With courts, (at home and abroad), accepting that the Chagos islanders should have the right to return, but being denied that right by the British government, the West Papuans and Yemenis struggling for their very existence as we arm their oppressors, and the Palestinian people still living under a brutal occupation that just seems to be getting worse, we should be taking to the streets. It’s the least we can do. The so called ‘international community’ are doing very little. At home I am absolutely disgusted the way the Brexit referendum was conducted. I was absolutely disgusted with the scheming and conniving employed during the recent election, and I am horrified by the corruption of many of our politicians. I understand that there are a few that are not corrupt. If you’re not sure who they are, they’re the ones that stand no chance of survival in this cesspit of political iniquity. Also in my last post, or blog, (or whatever you want to call it), I paid tribute to our teachers, nurses, refugee workers, cleaners and doctors, who hold our country together. After all I’ve saw last year I have to extend that to all the volunteers around the country. I have seen them in bookshops, hospitals, hospices, on the streets with the homeless, in shelters with the homeless, in women’s centres, children’s centres, in food banks, soup kitchens, on helplines, in animal rescue centres, and in almost every theatre I performed in on my last tour, there seemed to be an enthusiastic team of volunteers making things happen. Anyone who works in these areas, paid or volunteering, knows that we are heading into dark and difficult times, but verily I say unto you, don’t get disillusioned and downhearted, don’t feel overpowered and defeated. Do what you can. Do the little, (or the big), things that make a difference you can see. The tangible stuff. Or take to the streets to do something for the future. Do anything. Just don’t give up. Don’t let them grind you down. Rise up all ye sisters and brothers who know better. Stand firm in the downturn.

Benjamin Zephaniah' [https://benjaminzephaniah.com/ive-cried-a-lot-lately/]

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On 31/12/2023 at 13:06, IlonaM said:

John Pilger

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67853392

Well, he was never one to let the facts get in the way of his campaigning.

16 hours ago, sweetgirl said:

https://news.sky.com/story/camila-batmanghelidjh-kids-company-charity-founder-dies-aged-61-13041150

Sad news 

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Well, she certainly have a unique way of dispensing with the funding she received.

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This is generally to celebrate lives not have a pop at people once they have left this mortal coil.

Two people at different ends of the performer spectrum went in recent days, Geordie from the band Killing Joke and David Soul singer and best known for Car Keys and Clutch.  Both if them would have their 'bad times' but I'll be celebrating the music on a separate thread

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/05/david-soul-obituary

 

www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/27/kevin-geordie-walker-influential-guitarist-with-killing-joke-dies-aged-64

 

 

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