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How the hell Prisoner Cell Block H hasn't it's own thread I do not know, but I'm somewhat new here

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I just finished watching the first 2 seasons of the updated version of this called Wentworth. I decided to google the original and see if its worth watching but I saw it had like a zillion episodes so I decided to pass.

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An Anglo-Aussie leftfield suggestion - 'Little' Stevie Wright of the Easybeats, who rivalled Keef for drugs and booze ingestion and topped it off with a dash of DST at Dr Bailey's notorious Chelmsford Private Hospital.

 

He still gigs but it's got to catch up with him one of these days.

 

It has caught up with him. http://www.noise11.com/news/music-news-r-i-p-easybeats-legend-stevie-wright-1947-2015-20151227

 

Friday On My Mind: https://youtu.be/rBJLoYd8xak

 

Edit: DDP pick so awaiting UK obit. Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3375353/Stevie-Wright-Australian-rock-legend-Easybeats-singer-dies-aged-68.html

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Local news coverage: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-28/easybeats-frontman-stevie-wright-dies-aged-68-reports/7055924

 

'"Goodbye to a man who faced his demons and won," tweeted one fan.' Well, if that's winning...

 

I thought winning would be kicking the habit and remaining alive.

I guess it was only a matter of time before it all caught up with him.

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For what it is worth (not much I suppose, really) here is my list of Aussie for 2016:

 

Darrell Eastlake

Jeanne Little

Bob Hawke

Dame Beryl Beaurepaire

Betty Cuthbert

Len Maddocks

Ugly Dave Gray

Johnny Famechon

Brian Henderson

Neil Harvey

Noel Kelly

Thomas Michael "Mick" Keneally

Col Joy

Clive James

Elisabeth Kirkby - actress, politician, Ph.D

Margaret Reid – Ex Senator

Keith Payne

Joy McKean

Lana Cantrell (not sure if she is still an Aussie since moving to N.Y. years ago)

Lou Richards

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Notice that Bob Ellis hasn't posted any writings to his site since January 2nd, one of the longest gaps in his output in ages. Any news from our convict-descendant cousins on whether this is significant?

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moved to another thread

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The character she played was in fact Ettie Parslow.My apologies to PCBH fans

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First the bank collapses, now it's managing director!

Tim Marcus Clark, the former managing director of the State Bank of South Australia – which collapsed in 1991 with debts of $3 billion and forced a massive taxpayer-funded bailout and the resignation of then South Australian premier, John Bannon – died last month just a few days after Mr Bannon. The intensely private Mr Marcus Clark died in December, 2015, in Sydney after a long illness. He was 83.

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http://www.afr.com/business/former-state-bank-of-sa-boss-tim-marcus-clark-dies-20160123-gmcqbu

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Tony Abbot is generally regarded as a bit of a dick so it's good riddance all round I guess. Malcom Turnbull is more moderate isn't he? Doesn't matter cos he'll be gone in a few months I guess !

Abbot's destabilisation of Turnbull continues....

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-29/matthewson-if-turnbull-falls,-so-might-you/7207186

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By her own admission, Judith Lucy was apparently a hopeless alcoholic at one stage. Claims she is off the bottle now. Still might have knocked a few years off her life span.

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Deane Hutton and Rob Morrison from the Curiousity Show are starting to look old:

 

 

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:(

 

I wonder when those guys were born.

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Talk show bimbo Kerri-Anne Kennerley has cancer of the tit.

Husband in a coma after falling off balcony: http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/03/08/05/46/husband-of-kerri-anne-kennerley-in-coma

 

Hmm, has a nice beat that, there's a song in it.

 

ETA: Bet he tried to take a selfie.

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Guess the reason for his fall
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More details on Jon English coming through. Must have happened quickly if he only advised he had to pull out of that concert on Monday:

 

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/australian-rock-icon-jon-english-dead-66/2959081/

 

I always suspected he might have had kidney problems because of those dark rings around his eyes.

 

Three big rock music deaths in three days from an Aussie perspective with Ross Hannaford (Daddy Cool), George Martin and Jon English all going. It really is "the year the music died" now!

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