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Ian Campbell

 

Scots folk artist, founder of the folk group which bears his name and father of the Campbell brothers of UB40 fame.

 

Apologies if already posted elsewhere.

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re Sid Kipper-i talked to him at Cheltenham in March 2012-he was without doubt in very poor health and announced his retirement that evening at the theatre

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Veteran folkie Meic Stevens - "The Welsh Bob Dylan" - is suffering from throat cancer, estimating his chances of survival to be 50/50.

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American folk fiddler Sue Draheim has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She has appeared on albums by British folk luminaries Fairport Convention, Pentangle, The Albion Band, John Martyn and Richard Thompson.

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Joan Bridge Baez, mother of the more famous folk singer Joan Baez, has died aged 100...

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Veteran folkie Meic Stevens - "The Welsh Bob Dylan" - is suffering from throat cancer, estimating his chances of survival to be 50/50.

 

Bit higher than his chances of a national obit, then.

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You'll get a BBC obit for him if/when he goes, as BBC Wales will cover his death

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You'll get a BBC obit for him if/when he goes, as BBC Wales will cover his death

 

A fair point; (opens 2014 picks file, rips Meic's name (cos MPFC can't f***in' spell it otherwise), closes file).

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American folk fiddler Sue Draheim has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She has appeared on albums by British folk luminaries Fairport Convention, Pentangle, The Albion Band, John Martyn and Richard Thompson.

 

Dead. I'll be interested to see if Sue Draheim gets a UK obit, because she'd have been number one in my DDP entry next year.

 

I think I may have seen Draheim preform with Fairport at a Cropredy Festival...although all of my festival memories are a bit of a blur. :smoking-smiley:

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No links I'm afraid, but I heard this evening that the slightly obscure folk singer Louisa Jo Killen was diagnosed with lung cancer last August, although I have no information about how she is doing now. She is probably better known (but still not well known enough for a Wikipedia page) as Louis Killen, however she underwent gender re-assignment surgery at the age of 75...

 

I'm sure she'll get a broadsheet obit when she goes. -_-

After a respectful pause, she/he did. A member of the Clancy Brothers for a while, too. She's sporting a fine beard in that photo.

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lol, almost put this in "pop stars" thread :)

 

 

Radio shortbread reporting that Jack of the Alexander Brothers has died.

 

Haven't saw link yet.

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lol, almost put this in "pop stars" thread :)

 

 

Radio shortbread reporting that Jack of the Alexander Brothers has died.

 

Haven't saw link yet.

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Don't know if you'd call him a folk singer (probably not) but Roy Harper has been knockin' on Heaven's door for a while, with various ailments physical and mental, and balladeer/singer-songwiter Dan Fogelberg has been battling prostate cancer, but I don't really think that they, or anyone else mentioned here would really qualify on the famous front.

 

Turns out it wasn't heaven's door he was knocking on, but rather than front door of the local comprehensive.

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Don't know if you'd call him a folk singer (probably not) but Roy Harper has been knockin' on Heaven's door for a while, with various ailments physical and mental, and balladeer/singer-songwiter Dan Fogelberg has been battling prostate cancer, but I don't really think that they, or anyone else mentioned here would really qualify on the famous front.

 

Turns out it wasn't heaven's door he was knocking on, but rather than front door of the local comprehensive.

 

Which one's pink?

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Don't know if you'd call him a folk singer (probably not) but Roy Harper has been knockin' on Heaven's door for a while, with various ailments physical and mental, and balladeer/singer-songwiter Dan Fogelberg has been battling prostate cancer, but I don't really think that they, or anyone else mentioned here would really qualify on the famous front.

 

Turns out it wasn't heaven's door he was knocking on, but rather than front door of the local comprehensive.

 

Which one's pink?

 

The net closes ever closer on Jimmy Page, then.

 

 

I'm sure there's a line that says something like: "Baby let me calm your fears, let me hold your thirteen years" in Harper's song "Commune." Oddly, the online versions of the lyrics vary a lot for this track. One version totally changes the following, which I'm sure is what he really sings:

 

And I watched her makin' her first daisy chain as her nipples hung hard in suggestion

And naked, gnat-bitten we drifted fain in the hazy deserved sensation

 

Truly, they don't write 'em like that any more.

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The net closes ever closer on Jimmy Page, then.

 

 

 

Just about every old rocker must be a possible suspect. How long till Led Zep's 'red snapper' groupie comes forward?

 

"M'lud, you must remember this was the culture of 1971, when inserting Lutjanus campechanus into a young lady's private parts was considered the societal norm".

I guess the rock star paedo hunt has now begun in earnest. Bill Wyman, anyone? And I suspect Jerry Lee was banging his 13-yr-old wife Myra when he toured here in 1958 too, Officer Yewtree.

 

I should be ok, as we never got any groupies. Of any age. Unless you count Welshman or Cowboy Ronnie. :ph34r:

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That's a lie.

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