Vale / in Memorium

[Jezza]

Great actor. The best 007 by a country mile.

RIP

[stui magpie]

The big bloke was James Bond.

[Tannin]

He was much, much more than Bond. Connery was a master of his trade, outstanding in every role I can remember seeing him in.

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Robert Fisk died. A British journalist and writer who lived in Lebanon and was a fluent Arabic speaker. He was one of the few to interview Osama Bin Laden and not lose his head

I disagreed with him on a few matters but he was a good journalist at times in my opinion but biased at others. Nonetheless he was pretty good but became a bit too embittered I thought towards the end, at times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk

[David]

[LaurieHolden]

I have often wondered what it must be like to start your own band, with your own name, make great music and number one hits and then live the rest of your life associated in the public mind with a genius who played and sang with you when he was a kid. It must have been a hard road.
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And couldn't that Winwood kid sing!!!!

Yes, Vale to The Professor. To obtain that rhythm, I'm sure he must have met at the same crossroad as Robert Johnson. The SDG songs have stood the test of time and his legacy to British music is now very much part of the DNA.

[Presti35]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-07/ ... s/12860638

Little made her debut on the Mike Walsh Show in 1974, where she won a Gold Logie and went on to appear in numerous television shows.

A very unique, eccentric and flamboyant individual. But an Aussie TV legend none the less.

RIP Daaaarling!

[Tannin]

If you know who he is and something of the calibre of the man, no words of mine are necessary. If you don't, no words of mine are adequate. 97 years old. What a man.

[What'sinaname]

Did he invent the drink Yeager-Meister?

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It is with heavy heart that I post the passing of a witty erudite and clever political journalist Mungo MacCullum

https://www.theage.com.au/national/aust ... 56m6q.html

Famously once called the 1972 election between Whitlam and wee Billy McMahon a contest between a big cnut and a little prick. He was very funny. Retired many years ago to just North of Byron Bay and was a regular writer for the Byron Echo.

He also famously published amongst others two small ‘books’: one was the “wit of Whitlam” which was histerically funny the other was “the wit of Fraser” just after he was PM for the Libs: it was blank

[Tannin]

Sad news. He was, in his own peculiar way, one of the greats.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo_W ... _MacCallum

[think positive]

The old hometown looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
Yes, they'll all come to meet me
Arms reaching, smiling sweetly
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
The old house is still standing
Though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane, I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
Then I awake and look around me
At four grey walls that surround me
And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's a sad, old padre
On and on, we'll walk at daybreak
Again, I'll touch the green, green grass of home
Yes, they'll all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me
'Neath the green, green grass of home

I don’t have very many happy or kind memories of my dad, Charlie is one of them, he played his tapes endlessly in the car, I know all his songs by heart, and I still sing them now.

RIP Charlie, thanks for the memories xxx

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Vale indeed. A pioneer in some ways for Black Country and Western singers although the roots of country music owes a lot to black music as it were.

Wierd as Charlie was in my lounge room just the other day: I’ve been watching Ken Burns ( He of the Civil War, US national Parks, Jazz, the Blues and Baseball amongst other brilliant docos) series called “Country Music” on SBS on Friday’s or better still on SBS on demand.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-mu ... -biography

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Vale to a brilliant writer. Some of us grew up with “ Smileys people”: now that is writing.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/ ... es-aged-89

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9

Amongst numerous awards he won two “Golden Dagger” awards from the British Crime Writing Association