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Kevin Ayres dead at the age of 69

 

Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone conveniently gave him a good send off, then, picking the first Soft Machine release as its featured album last Sunday. Still on iPlayer for those of you who haven't a clue who he was.

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Kevin Ayres dead at the age of 68

 

Edited due to typo on age

 

And the name!

 

Big shame. His 1970 album with "the Whole World", which included a teenage Mike Oldfield is one of my favourite albums of all time... :(

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Kevin Ayres dead at the age of 68

 

Edited due to typo on age

 

And the name!

 

Big shame. His 1970 album with "the Whole World", which included a teenage Mike Oldfield is one of my favourite albums of all time... :(

 

Oh yeah :) oh well. hehehe I should have copied and pasted the name

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DJ Tommy Boy (link in Dutch) who did groundbreaking work in developing Jumpstyle, died from injuries from a car crash way back in November. Ever since the accident he was in a coma...

 

 

 

 

...which is the same state I'm in listening to Jumpstyle....

 

 

(Clearly a man who doesn't know his horror movies... That's a reworking of Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield, used in the movie The Exorcist and not Candyman....)

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Uriah Heep bassist and Spider From Mars Trevor Bolder underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in January. He says he should be completely recovered in a few months...

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Uriah Heep bassist and Spider From Mars Trevor Bolder underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in January. He says he should be completely recovered in a few months...

 

He ought to hang onto himself...

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Richard Street of the Temptations has died at 70.

http://www.freep.com...|text|FRONTPAGE

 

Jesus Christ, if it don't rain it pours....

 

(I Know) We're Losing Them

 

Was Johnny Hawksworth a member of Temptations?

 

Things coming in threes and that...

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Daniel Darc, singer of 80s French synth band Taxi Girl (they toured over here with the Stranglers) est mort. Drink and drugs suspected.

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Jewel Akens, one-hit wonder with The Birds & The Bees has died aged 79.

 

It reached Number 29 in the UK.

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Once rumoured to be Anubis the Jackal, rock guitar god Alvin Lee has died.

 

Ten Years After; Six Feet Under.

 

I missed that one, who reckoned Anubis and Alvin Lee were one and the same? Having shifted beer with Anubis at a DL Con and paid good money to see Mr Lee I can confirm - other than both being white - there wasn't a noticable resemblance.

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Pete Banks

 

Guitarist and founding member of "Yes" dead at 65. Also credited with coming up with the band's name, having up until then been called "Mabel Greer's Toyshop". Q: "Can anyone think of a better name?" A: "Yes".

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Pete Banks

 

Guitarist and founding member of "Yes" dead at 65. Also credited with coming up with the band's name, having up until then been called "Mabel Greer's Toyshop". Q: "Can anyone think of a better name?" A: "Yes".

 

Another pop myth of my youth turns to dust! I was always brought up to believe that Yes were named after Yes Tor on Dartmoor (a wonderful place, where I have spent the odd discombobulated moment). Ah well, at least according to Wiki, Yes did feature the tor on the album artwork for Tormato.

 

Tormato.jpg

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Irish rocker Christy Dignam, lead singer of Aslan, has been diagnosed with cancer after he received treatment for a suspected chest infection...

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Pete Banks

 

Guitarist and founding member of "Yes" dead at 65. Also credited with coming up with the band's name, having up until then been called "Mabel Greer's Toyshop". Q: "Can anyone think of a better name?" A: "Yes".

 

Sad, we featured some stuff from his glorious odds n sods collection "Can I Play You Something?" on our radio show a few weeks back. Hugely under-rated IMHO.

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Bobbie Smith (aka Bobby Smith)

 

One of the founding members of the (Detroit) Spinners has died aged 76.

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Could have sworn I posted about Jason Molina, of early 00s buzzband Songs: Ohia, and his medical problems on this thread last year. Maybe I kept quiet because I wanted him as a pick. Doesn't matter anyway, because he's dead.

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