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News from Elvis Costello's website:

 

Elvis Costello European Tour Postponement Announcement It is with the deepest regret that Elvis Costello has to postpone the following dates on his current European Solo Tour.

 

Sunday November 13, Stockholm Sweden, Rival

Monday November 14, Malmoe Sweden, Nojesteatren

Thursday November 17, Brussels Belgium, Cirque Royal

Friday November 18, Eindhoven Netherlands, Muziekgebouw

Monday November 21, Reykjavik Iceland, Harpa

 

 

This course of action is unavoidable and necessary due to a grave deterioration of his father’s health and the need to return to England without delay. Elvis Costello appreciates all the good wishes he has received in this regard and wants to express his thanks for understanding at this extremely difficult time.

 

Elvis Costello's father is the singer, songwriter and trumpet player Ross MacManus

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Ross MacManus is obit worthy for sure. May I be the first to wish him enough health to celebrate a happy New Year?

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It wouldn't surprise me if that name pops up in the entries, including my own!

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Another one we're going to miss;

 

Please excuse the rather impersonal round robin e-mail. Sometimes, you have to tell people about the Bad, as well as the Good. It is with a heavy heart, therefore, that I have to relate the sad news that the great Scottish singer-songwriter JACKIE LEVEN is gravely ill, suffering from cancer, and, in all candour, has only a few days to live.

In a career stretching over forty years, Jackie Leven has carved an impressive reputation as a uniquely gifted singer-songwriter. From his emergence as leader of the underrated DOLL BY DOLL in the seventies, through well documented addiction problems which Leven overcame with remarkable strength of will, culminating in a solo resurgence through the 1980s to the here and now, Jackie has amassed an amazing body of work – the composer of over four hundred songs, including arguably his greatest song – ‘Call Mother’, from the album ‘Mystery of Love’ (ranked by Q magazine as one of ‘100 Best Albums of All Time’.

If sales didn’t always reflect the overwhelmingly positive critical reception his albums received, he nonetheless remained a perceptive writer and performer. Jackie was imbued with a restless creativity, and always searching for new settings for his ruminative lyrical forays, laced with humour and melodic grace. As a performer, Jackie could enthral and entrance the audience with picaresque tales taken from first-hand experience.

Those that have worked with Jackie will know of his mordant wit and very idiosyncratic world view. His latest release, Wayside Shrines and The Code of the Travelling Man, recorded with multi-instrumentalist Michael Cosgrave was yet more proof of Leven’s enduring talent and inexhaustible creative energies

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Another one we're going to miss;

 

You called that right. Jackie Leven dies aged 61.

When I started reading the inkies in 1979 Doll By Doll were pretty fashionable, amongst hacks at least. I was disappointed to discover they were even duller than the Comsat Angels. Still, he continued to plough his furrow, so RIP and all that.

 

I'll get me long grey overcoat.

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Lee Pockriss

 

The co-writer of "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" and "Catch A Falling Star" has died at the age of 87

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Pop star and porn actress Andrea True, most famous for the hit 'More More More', has died apparently.

 

Her third album - almost impossible to track down and never released on CD - is one of the worst punk rock collections ever.

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Time to scratch Ross MacManus off your lists....

 

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Damn. My maiden name happens to be R White, so inevitably used to get that bloody lemonade jingle sung at me all the time. But it was a good ad all the same. (I also used to get called Dr White, after the jamrag, but I don't recall a jingle for that one.)

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