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Wonderful actress who was always in her prime

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Synonymous among footie civilians like me with Italia 90. I went to the 3rd/4th playoff in Bari. I was with the English supporters and there was a lot of downright rudeness exchanged between the opposing supporters until Italy won, then it all turned lovey-dovey with exchanges of scarves and hats. The atmosphere in Bari that night was great, very friendly and rambunctious, with neither side particularly disappointed. Football, eh? I think I saw Martyn Wayre there but wasn’t 100% and didn’t like to disturb. Though that might have been the previous match against Cameroon. The stadium was designed by Renzo Piano who also designed the Pompidou Centre together with Richard Rogers. It seemed an incredible stadium at the time (might still be for all I know), looking like a spaceship had landed. It did wonders for the morale of the Barese, used to being looked down on as southerners and led to many further radical developments in the city, like the swanky airport and central station. Roberto Baggio scored for Italy then David Platt for England (he went on to captain Bari the following year) and Golden Boot winner Totò Schillaci scored Italy’s winner with a penalty in the » Continue Reading.

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Died peacefully at home so the reports go but at the same time had an imminent tour with Karla Bonoff. Credited with co writing quite a few Eagles hits but I always liked Out To Sea off the first album best.

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I cant say that I know the name, but that looks like a pretty impressive CV!

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Vocals, guitar and keys for the Jackson 5.

Not Michael, Janet, er, Jermaine or, um, the others.

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Famously Minnie Caldwell’s lodger, Sunny Jim, during the early days of Corrie, and arguably even better known as Marty “only you,Jeff…” Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk Diseased.

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RIP Frankie Beverly. Maze’s Joy and Pain was the sound of young Essex when I was growing up and their Live In New Orleans album is still an absolute classic. Even now, I still wish I had a Maze car sticker (and an XR3i to stick it on).

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Impressive career. Worth a read.

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“Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, who helped popularise bossa nova and samba with Western audiences, has died at the age of 83, his family has confirmed.”

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I am just the right age for his work at Cosgrove Hall to be a fundamental part of my lunchtime and after school TV diet whilst growing up. Chorlton and The Wheelies and Danger Mouse were essential viewing.

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Crazy P frontwoman Danielle Moore dies aged 52

“We are devastated to announce the unbelievable and shocking news that our beautiful Danielle Moore has died in sudden and tragic circumstances”

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A man who purported to own every single that had ever charted in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9lqr5wqg9o

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One of the better English managers and a decent bloke who might be lauded a lot more loudly if Beckham Hadn’t jumped out of that tackle against Brazil in 2002 and Rooney hadn’t got sent off in the game against Portugal in 2006.

Also the author of this excellent Bon mot about the spud-faced nipper:

“I remember the first time he came, I didn’t understand really what he said? But now he speaks very good English”

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Arguably France’s most famous and lauded actor from the impossibly cool 1960s, Alain Delon has passed away at the age of 88. His life was not without controversy, but along with Jean-Paul Belmondo his best films remain testament to a time when just turning up and being French was enough to guarantee box office hipness. He was a pretty good actor though, as illustrated by the likes of Plein Soleil, La Piscine and Le Samourai.

Thanks for the glamour and the coolness. Rest in peace.

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One of my favourite ever cricketers. What a player through a pretty dreadful time for England. Slightly horrified, for all sorts of reasons, that at 55 he was only three years older than me. RIP Thorpey.

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Can’t begin to comprehend how someone could live with something terrible like that for the next 50-odd years

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93 after a long illness.

Went from having her books banned and even burned to being lauded as one of the finest and influential Irish writers of the last century.

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Died suddenly and unexpectedly early this morning.

Lead singer and lyricist for the Chills. One of my favourite Flying Nun bands.

Very sad news

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90 playing and touring pretty close to the end. Dat man knew his blues. What a legacy! His voice was always the challenge but some damn fine records.

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Disco & Hi-NRG singer, 70.

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“Mali’s “king of kora” Toumani Diabate died on Friday at the age of 58 following a short illness, the musician’s family announced on social media.

“My dear dad is gone forever,” the Malian great’s son Sidiki Diabate, who is also a musician, wrote on Facebook.

Toumani Diabate was a master of the African stringed instrument, the kora.

He died at a private clinic in Bamako, the capital of the west African nation, another member of Diabate’s family told AFP.

Diabate was born in 1965 to a family of griots — storytellers who are the guardians of Mali’s traditions and oral histories.”

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Came to my attention via those extra live tracks on Dylan’s Double Greatest Hits. What an album that was ! onths later, Dylan would agree to release a second “greatest hits” compilation, provided he could compile it himself, issue it as a double album, and include several older compositions which he had written but never issued himself. To accommodate this last condition, Dylan took it upon himself to hold a recording session at Columbia’s Recording Studios in New York. On September 24, 1971, in Columbia’s Studio B, Dylan recorded four songs with his friend, Happy Traum.

“He felt there were some songs that he had written that had become hits of sorts for other people, that he didn’t actually perform himself,” recalls Traum, “and he wanted to fit those on the record as well…So we just went in one afternoon and did it, it was just the two of us and the engineer, and it was very simple…we chose three [songs] on the spot and mixed them…in the space of an afternoon…Sometimes I wasn’t even sure if it was a final take until we would just finish and Bob would say, ‘Okay, let’s go and mix it.’”

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I can’t say I was a fan, but 49 is no age at all.

“German DJ and producer Thomas Brückner, better known as Tomcraft, who was behind the massive 2003 club hit Loneliness, has died at the age of 49.”

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A highly respected actor with many roles under his belt but to me he was always Lt. Howard Hunter. Whenever I watch an episode of Hill Street Blues I always enjoy the title sequence – not only for the iconic theme but also for the montage of great characters who are so familiar to me.

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75.

Terrific actor who vanished from view in about 2000