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Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, formally of sixties band The Box Tops, now has a box bottom and box sides!

 

Now founding member and drummer Danny Smythe has died aged 67. http://ultimateclassicrock.com/danny-smythe-box-tops-dies/

It's not so much I don't know what search you performed to locate the Chilton post ('box tops' perhaps), but rather.... WHY? Why did u feel the need to tie these posts 6 years apart together?

Smh

It's ok I still love you Y-Dub.

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Like The Reaper, I'm putting the band back together....

I'm sure it's a mission from God.

Beat me to it

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Report here of the death of Steven Young of Colourbox, a moderately successful indie band of the 1980s on the Indie charts. https://twitter.com/pollybirkbeck/status/753210565229682688

 

However, he is probably better known as a member of the band M/A/R/R/S who had a hit with Pump Up The Volume.

 

Oh HELL no :-(((((( I loved Colourbox and still have my cassette (lol). This hits hard I didn't even know he was ill, like when Fad Gadget (Frank Tovey) died.

RIP

Goddamit.

SC

 

EDIT: Here is a good link to Young's background.

​I know few of you paid fukkall attention to Colourbox. I implore you to do a retrospective via YouTube or whatever.

 

Pump Up The Body -- full of embalming fluid.

 

https://youtu.be/w9gOQgfPW4Y?list=PLb1s-9Uz48Q-CWBYiqgugPdCTKL7rNbco

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Ellie Goulding has cancelled two festival appearances due to "ill health".

The 'Love Me Like You Do' hitmaker has pulled the plug on a show in Latvia on Friday (15.07.16) and one in Finland on Saturday (16.07.16) due to a mystery illness, but has vowed to "bounce back".

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Ellie Goulding has cancelled two festival appearances due to "ill health".

The 'Love Me Like You Do' hitmaker has pulled the plug on a show in Latvia on Friday (15.07.16) and one in Finland on Saturday (16.07.16) due to a mystery illness, but has vowed to "bounce back".

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to people like her period cramps are ill health.
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Ellie Goulding has cancelled two festival appearances due to "ill health".

The 'Love Me Like You Do' hitmaker has pulled the plug on a show in Latvia on Friday (15.07.16) and one in Finland on Saturday (16.07.16) due to a mystery illness, but has vowed to "bounce back".

SC

to people like her period cramps are ill health.

 

 

 

Aye, nowt wrong there a few stem cells from Vera Lynn wouldn't fix

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Maybe she just needs some "lights"? ;):P

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Ellie Goulding has cancelled two festival appearances due to "ill health".

The 'Love Me Like You Do' hitmaker has pulled the plug on a show in Latvia on Friday (15.07.16) and one in Finland on Saturday (16.07.16) due to a mystery illness, but has vowed to "bounce back".

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to people like her period cramps are ill health.

 

 

That comes under "women's trouble", and as such cannot be contested girl-says-no-no-smiley-emoticon.gif

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Ellie Goulding has cancelled two festival appearances due to "ill health".

The 'Love Me Like You Do' hitmaker has pulled the plug on a show in Latvia on Friday (15.07.16) and one in Finland on Saturday (16.07.16) due to a mystery illness, but has vowed to "bounce back".

SC

to people like her period cramps are ill health.
Well, Justin Beiber cancel his concert due to a cold. An illness that isn't close to being that bad.

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Oh no!

 

That's another big death with regard to highly influential musicians in 2016

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Oh no!

 

That's another big death with regard to highly influential musicians in 2016

Well. As long as Paul doesn't die, it should be ok

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Oh no!

 

That's another big death with regard to highly influential musicians in 2016

Well. As long as Paul doesn't die, it should be ok

 

 

 

He's only got one gig booked for the rest of the year, but seems healthy enough.

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Gary S Paxton, singer and record producer, has died aged 77. http://www.sgnscoops.com/gary-s-paxton-gospel-music-songwriter-passes-away/

 

He had a UK #24 hit in 1960 with the Hollywood Argyles with Alley Oop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcNSGFeUIV0

 

Also produced The Monster Mash for Bobby "Boris" Pickett and was a member of the duo Skip and Flip who had hits stateside with It Was I and Cherry Pie.

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Reet gang, with the usual selflessness and public spirit I've been displaying for 14,000 posts I'll go talent spotting on everyone's behalf at the Ramblin' Man Festival in Maidstone over the next couple of days; Hawkwind, Uriah Heep and several other pensionable proggers will parade on various stages and much as I'd sooner be posting her I'll brave the crowds, sunshine and strong ale so you don't have to!

 

Anyone truly defying the odds to the extent I would be amazed to see them on the same stage next year will be outed on my return!

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Lewie Steinberg was the original bass player (on Green Onion)!for Booker T. and the MGs. He left the MGs in 1965 to be replaced by Donald "Duck" Dunn. Steinberg died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 82.

 

Memorable bass line; RIP

SirC

http://www.commercialappeal.com/entertainment/music/lewie-steinberg-played-bass-with-booker-t-and-the-mgs-382fbd39-af58-6714-e053-0100007f3701-387883622.html?d=mobile

 

Green Onion

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu87br_booker-t-the-mgs-green-onions-hollywood-a-go-go_music

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Reet gang, with the usual selflessness and public spirit I've been displaying for 14,000 posts I'll go talent spotting on everyone's behalf at the Ramblin' Man Festival in Maidstone over the next couple of days; Hawkwind, Uriah Heep and several other pensionable proggers will parade on various stages and much as I'd sooner be posting her I'll brave the crowds, sunshine and strong ale so you don't have to!

 

Anyone truly defying the odds to the extent I would be amazed to see them on the same stage next year will be outed on my return!

 

 

Interim report: Uriah Heep stole day one on the prog stage for me.Mick Box (the oldster/only permanent resident of the band since their start) looks like this stuff injects him with the life force. One or two of the Zomblies looking like time is catching up with them but that's more down to ill-advised use of hair dye than anything obitable. Colin Blundstone looks like someone's mad grandmother these days:

 

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Final report on Ramblin' Man - it was generally fucking awesome. NONE of the real veterans seen on stage looked remotely close to death. Even Hawkwind's Dave Brock - 75 next month - looked remarkably animated and chipper. Procul Harum were less lively, so much so that wandering down the hill to catch Black Stone Cherry seemed the best bet.

 

A few of the crowd imbibed to the very edge of death - but none of those casualties are obitable as far as I can see.

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One for our US readers. Pat Upton, lead singer with Spiral Starecase who had a 1969 hit with More Today Than Yesterday, has died aged 75. http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2016/07/geraldine_native_pat_upton_of.html

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuqHlv1YPe0

Loving him more today than yesterday is called necrophilia.

 

Oh my God that bass player in the video. He's gotta go lol. Some grooving dance moves.

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An update on Sharon Jones with most of the information we "need":

 

http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=825902

 

Another profile of her cancer battle. Key info not mentioned before is that her cancer is now stage four, with tumors present in her lungs, liver, and lymph nodes...

 

 

With the way the year has panned out, could wind up being another "fortune favours the brave TJS while other deadpoolers elected to wait a year" moment.

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