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Joy Beverley, one third of The Beverely Sisters & Billy Wright's wife.

 

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/08/31/wolves-legend-billy-wrights-widow-joy-dies-at-91/

 

Damn she was part of my line up for 2016.

 

 

 

Her twin sisters are still breathing, take your pick from the sub's bench.

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Owens "Boomer" Castleman, singer-songwriter and guitarist, has died. http://www.thedailybanner.com/nashville-mourns-boomer-castleman/

 

Earliest days were in the formation of Lewis and Clarke Expedition (Under the pseudonym Boomer Clarke), here is Destination Unknown: https://youtu.be/bWdAo-vNtTw

 

Here also is his solo hit, Judy Mae: https://youtu.be/x4sD-gzHm5Q

 

Latterly became heavily involved the Nashville country music scene. I have a feeling he wrote for The Monkees, but enough research for now.

 

Edit: In fact it might be this one: https://youtu.be/sSYJDNSUkN8

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Any reference to D O'R mandates the reposting of the quotes from the court case her former nanny put against her.

In three days of evidence, Ms Fahy, who has also worked for the model Elle McPherson and U2's drummer, Larry Mullen, said she suffered stress due to the lifestyle of the couple.

She said the trouble began when she accompanied them to their lakeside retreat in Canada in June 1999. She told the court Mr Burton drank at all times of the day, the couple took their baby son on quad-cycles, and Mr Burton once drove him around the lake on a jet-ski without a life jacket, while holding a can of beer.

Ms Fahy said Ms O'Riordan would iron for hours, sometimes the same items over and over. Sometimes, in the evenings, the singer would hand her the sleeping child and tell her to give him a bath. The idea was to wake him so he would sleep late the next morning, not disturbing her.

Ms Fahy said Mr Burton would say absurd things. During one row, he kept shouting: "You don't get it, do you? My wife is Bono. She is not Larry."

The nanny complained about being left alone with the child in a remote area, without a car, and said at one point Ms O'Riordan went "ballistic". Shouting "everyone is against me", she took the baby from the pram and ran towards the lake, Ms Fahy said. Mr Burton, who had been drinking, went upstairs and told Ms Fahy: "You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses."

 

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Any reference to D O'R mandates the reposting of the quotes from the court case her former nanny put against her.

 

In three days of evidence, Ms Fahy, who has also worked for the model Elle McPherson and U2's drummer, Larry Mullen, said she suffered stress due to the lifestyle of the couple.

She said the trouble began when she accompanied them to their lakeside retreat in Canada in June 1999. She told the court Mr Burton drank at all times of the day, the couple took their baby son on quad-cycles, and Mr Burton once drove him around the lake on a jet-ski without a life jacket, while holding a can of beer.

Ms Fahy said Ms O'Riordan would iron for hours, sometimes the same items over and over. Sometimes, in the evenings, the singer would hand her the sleeping child and tell her to give him a bath. The idea was to wake him so he would sleep late the next morning, not disturbing her.

Ms Fahy said Mr Burton would say absurd things. During one row, he kept shouting: "You don't get it, do you? My wife is Bono. She is not Larry."

The nanny complained about being left alone with the child in a remote area, without a car, and said at one point Ms O'Riordan went "ballistic". Shouting "everyone is against me", she took the baby from the pram and ran towards the lake, Ms Fahy said. Mr Burton, who had been drinking, went upstairs and told Ms Fahy: "You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses."

 

 

Wow, Craaaaaazyyyyyy. Actually, this is not the first time I heard of her unusual behavour, but I can't recall what else I heard.

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I dream of the day I can use "MY WIFE IS BONO. SHE IS NOT LARRY." in a conversation

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I dream of the day I can use "MY WIFE IS BONO. SHE IS NOT LARRY." in a conversation

That is a fabulous quote.

 

Though technically incorrect - U2 *is* Larry's band. Was at the beginning and always will be. Ask the rest of U2.

 

Dolores has always been a bit of an up-herself cow with OCD tendancies. The rest of the band are lovely.

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Graham Brazier, frontman of Hello Sailor, has died aged 63:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34133145

 

He died after a heart attack some time ago. Their biggest hit was "Blue Lady".

 

 

And he doubtless turned blue towards the end!

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Ska trombonist, Rico Rodriguez has died at the age of 80

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Just found about Rico :-( I loved The Specials, this sucks. I also played trombone through high school and a bit beyond, so not many out there to admire.

RIP Rico

SC

 

Here's a great song and solo close up of Rico at 2:10

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Been out this evening, come home to this news about Rico. As a ska boy back in the late 70s/early 80s, I'm really sorry to hear this news. RIP Rico, such an influential figure for me. Proper piece of my early teenage years gone.

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Just found about Rico :-( I loved The Specials, this sucks. I also played trombone through high school and a bit beyond, so not many out there to admire.

RIP Rico

SC

Here's a great song and solo close up of Rico at 2:10

Ditto re trumbone & school.

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Just found about Rico :-( I loved The Specials, this sucks. I also played trombone through high school and a bit beyond, so not many out there to admire.

RIP Rico

SC

Here's a great song and solo close up of Rico at 2:10

Ditto re trumbone & school.

 

 

 

Yeah, something of a legend at the time, The Specials had an agreeable habit of playing loads of gigs, especially in the unfashionable toilet towns other bands were happy to avoid.,

 

Really sad news.

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Another Specials fan here. Very sad news - and I didn't realise Rico was as old as that.

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You might say now he is One Step Beyond

Isn't that...

No it's best to let it go.

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Much Too Young?

 

 

And, he's left the Rat Race

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Frederick "Denny" Greene, a member of the band Sha Na Na who had their own TV series in the 1970s and who appeared as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers in the film Grease has been reported dead at 66, throat cancer. He sang the lead vocals on Tears On My Pillow in the film. https://www.facebook.com/donnyork/posts/1418534214828198

 

He was latterly a Law Professor at University of Dayton, Ohio.

 

Tears On My Pillow: https://youtu.be/W3He_gyNG6A

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Frederick "Denny" Greene, a member of the band Sha Na Na who had their own TV series in the 1970s and who appeared as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers in the film Grease has been reported dead at 66, throat cancer. He sang the lead vocals on Tears On My Pillow in the film. https://www.facebook.com/donnyork/posts/1418534214828198

 

He was latterly a Law Professor at University of Dayton, Ohio.

 

Tears On My Pillow:

Presuming this is true, stunning there isn't a link to it anywhere. Sha Na Na only played WOODSTOCK for Christ sake and had a TV show. Wikipedia entry on the band merely mentions he died on 9-5-15 with no citation. That would make it two days ago----and nothing?!?? His personal Wikipedia entry says he died on 9-6-2015 (the next day) again no citation. A search of Dayton Law School's webpage doesn't even say they lost an active member of their faculty.

OK--it's the Labor Day holiday weekend here, and many people off till tomorrow. But still....

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^^I know Sir C, although his former bandmate (whom he sued along with other Sha Na Na members) is the Donny York whose FB post it is - not a bad source I'd say, especially with the detail of his illness which I couldn't find in the other brief mentions of his demise. Note how in this case I used the word "reported" anyway.

 

I'd have thought fans of the film would be all over this news like a rash - who knows?

 

Edit: University officials have now confirmed: http://www.whio.com/news/news/sha-na-na-co-founder-dennis-greene-was-beloved-law/nnZTS/

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Lovin' the bit of the child killer on the run who took over the identity of the lead guitarist of Sha Na Na who had died of an od in 74.

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Edward_Solly

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