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Rest in peace you bloody legend :(
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crowbgood1 wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 2:20 am Rest in peace you bloody legend :(
Really! Oh, that's sad. Read his biog a few years ago. Cool bloke. Just today a Wilco / Daltry song came up in my Facebook thing. Must've been connected with his passing.

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I've only recently started listening to The Blockheads. Utterly excellent band. RIP.
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Oil City Confidential - a must watch for fans.
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The interview he did some years ago re his cancer and recovery is worth a listen. Amazing story.
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Loved the Feelgoods from the first time I heard them. Great band. His later work with Daltrey was good. The book and film were excellent.

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Oh wow! Crumbs...that's a bugger. Rest lightly, man. My mate always referred to him as 'Machine Gun Tele'...as a play on the bad-ass, '30s gangster cat, 'Machine Gun Kelly'...not the contemporary rapper dude. Don't puns always suck if you end up having to explain them...

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A hero. Most of time people make me sick, but it's the opposite with Wilco J.
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werdna wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 12:38 pm A hero. Most of time people make me sick, but it's the opposite with Wilco J.
You make him sick?
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I saw him in Solid Senders, at Maidstone College of Art in 1978.


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