BS2 Red Posted November 26, 2022 Report Share Posted November 26, 2022 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted November 26, 2022 Report Share Posted November 26, 2022 Doddle Weir aged 52. Sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted November 26, 2022 Author Admin Report Share Posted November 26, 2022 13 minutes ago, Super said: Doddle Weir aged 52. Sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevedon Red Posted November 26, 2022 Report Share Posted November 26, 2022 So sad he was a giant of a man. MND is just the cruellest disease. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtucks Posted November 26, 2022 Report Share Posted November 26, 2022 39 minutes ago, Clevedon Red said: So sad he was a giant of a man. MND is just the cruellest disease. Well said! Totally agree. A close friend of mine suffered from it and it's a bastard!!! RIP Doddie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norn Iron Posted November 28, 2022 Report Share Posted November 28, 2022 (edited) My profile picture is of the Dr Feelgood characiture. Apparently it was originally drawn by Wilko. Met him at the Bierkeller and he kindly signed his Ice On The Motorway cover for me. This was after he had left the Solid Senders and after his tenure with Ian Dury. I asked him how Ian was doing. He said he must phone him. That line up featured Lew Lewis on Vocals/harp. A couple of years later he re-united with Norman Watt Roy from the Blockheads. Sadly, whilst The Feelgoods have been my no1 band (along with Thunder) I never saw John Wilkinson (real name btw) in the line up. I only found the Feelgoods in 1977 after he left. Did see him though with Ian Dury at the Locarno for the Laughter tour. Edited November 28, 2022 by Norn Iron Spelling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudski Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 Sadly Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Sinclair Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, aged 79 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 Just now, Ronnie Sinclair said: Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, aged 79 Ah that’s sad news. This a beautiful song 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 That one really hurts. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 13 minutes ago, spudski said: Sadly Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac. Very sad indeed. i didn’t realise she was 79. She was a talented musician who had along and success career. I met her couple of times along with the fragile Stevie Nicks when my sister toured the world with the band in their heyday. We got complementary guest tickets for their concerts and joined them in the post concert ‘parties’ a couple of times. Christine was lovely to my wife and I bringing us both drinks. Stevie was sober by then but still emotionally fragile. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 Very sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudski Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 5 minutes ago, Robbored said: Very sad indeed. i didn’t realise she was 79. She was a talented musician who had along and success career. I met her couple of times along with the fragile Stevie Nicks when my sister toured the world with the band in their heyday. We got complementary guest tickets for their concerts and joined them in the post concert ‘parties’ a couple of times. Christine was lovely to my wife and I bringing us both drinks. Stevie was sober by then but still emotionally fragile. Very sad indeed... I must admit I welled up. My late mum played Songbird on the piano at home when I was younger. This news brought back fond memories. On a brighter note...your post is probably the coolest thing you've ever posted. You are a lucky man to have met both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norn Iron Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 9 minutes ago, Robbored said: Very sad indeed. i didn’t realise she was 79. She was a talented musician who had along and success career. I met her couple of times along with the fragile Stevie Nicks when my sister toured the world with the band in their heyday. We got complementary guest tickets for their concerts and joined them in the post concert ‘parties’ a couple of times. Christine was lovely to my wife and I bringing us both drinks. Stevie was sober by then but still emotionally fragile. Robbo, You have to tell us more please. How come your sister toured with the band? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 Just now, spudski said: Very sad indeed... I must admit I welled up. My late mum played Songbird on the piano at home when I was younger. This news brought back fond memories. On a brighter note...your post is probably the coolest thing you've ever posted. You are a lucky man to have met both. I would never have met Fleetwood Mac had my sister not worked for them as a nanny. The post concerts parties were unreal to an ordinary guy and his wife. We both felt a little bewildered by everything and it was Stevie Nicks who saw us standing alone who came over with Christine just after with two glasses of wine. Stevie asked what we did and when I told that I was an addiction counsellor she was immediately interested but it didn’t take long for me to see just how emotionally vulnerable she was. I wanted to give her a reassuring hug - obviously I didn’t! That must be something like 40 odd years ago. My daughter was born in ‘85 and it was before she was born. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudski Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, Robbored said: I would never have met Fleetwood Mac had my sister not worked for them as a nanny. The post concerts parties were unreal to an ordinary guy and his wife. We both felt a little bewildered by everything and it was Stevie Nicks who saw us standing alone who came over with Christine just after with two glasses of wine. Stevie asked what we did and when I told that I was an addiction counsellor she was immediately interested but it didn’t take long for me to see just how emotionally vulnerable she was. I wanted to give her a reassuring hug - obviously I didn’t! That must be something like 40 odd years ago. My daughter was born in ‘85 and it was before she was born. Thanks for sharing Robbo. I can imagine the after show party's were fun. Cool that they both took the time to make you feel welcome and comfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 12 minutes ago, Norn Iron said: Robbo, You have to tell us more please. How come your sister toured with the band? She was originally the nanny to Mick Fleetwood sister Sally and they became good friends and that’s how she met Mick. Based on Sally’s glowing appraisal of my sister he asked her if she’d like to join him and the band as a full time nanny when they next went on tour - not an offer she could refuse! Consequently she did a world tour with band and would send me letters and postcards from all over the world. She has loads of stories about those years, especially the roadies who got upto all sorts of wild antics. She had a fling with one of them and he gave ‘tips’ on how to fiddle the credit card company…….she still has a very very expensive pair of Italian leather cowboy boots that she bought in Milan and never paid a penny for them! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Red Shadow Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 I feel really sad now. I've been listening to early Mac albums before Buckingham and Nicks joined for a couple of years now and she wrote some great songs on those. They get forgotten though due to the super stardom which followed from the White album, then Rumours. Must be up there with the greatest British Songwriters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 @Robbored that's an incredible story, I have barely ever seen any famous people, let alone anything like that. RIP Christine McVie, what a loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasbuster Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 Very sad news. The world has lost a huge talent. R.I.P. Christine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonGreat Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 2 hours ago, spudski said: Sadly Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac. Very sad. Incredible songwriter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted December 1, 2022 Report Share Posted December 1, 2022 In the 60's it was her and Sandy Denny always vi-ing for NME's top female singer poll . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted December 1, 2022 Report Share Posted December 1, 2022 This is from 69 before she joined Fleetwood Mac 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted December 6, 2022 Report Share Posted December 6, 2022 Kirstie Alley, aged 71. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OutstandingMixer Posted December 6, 2022 Report Share Posted December 6, 2022 Sad news about Kirstie Alley. I thought she was great in Cheers, and played a big part in why it stayed so consistent for so long. Cheers would have got stale had Shelley Long stayed and Kirstie didn't replace her. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazred Posted December 7, 2022 Report Share Posted December 7, 2022 On 06/12/2022 at 08:19, Gazred said: Key below: Quote 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted December 8, 2022 Report Share Posted December 8, 2022 The last survivor of the World War Two Dambusters has died at the age of 101. Sq Ldr George "Johnny" Johnson, was a bomb-aimer in the 617 Squadron, which destroyed key dams in Germany's industrial heartland during World War Two. His family said he died peacefully in his sleep on Wednesday 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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