Obituary
US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson died peacefully on Tuesday morning surrounded by his family. In the 1960s, Jackson fought for civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr.
Not many people have had a rap written about them by Grandmaster Melle Mel.
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Not many people have had a rap written about them by Grandmaster Melle Mel.
Met him once. One of the most charismatic people I’ve every encountered. I’d got tickets for a free chat show in LA and he emerged at the end as the special guest. The whole room went apeshit. He was barely on camera for 2 minutes but took time to shake hands with a fair few of us in the audience and had a question for everyone. He professed to be delighted to find there were Brits watching the show being made. I can remember it as if it were yesterday, which is more than I can say for any other part of the show other than Christina Applegate was on it. Sigh.
Blimey, that’s impressive.
I was once, during Beeb training excercise, a camera man on Pebble Mill At One when post-peak Deacon Blue were on. Ricky Ross, bless him, didn’t have that level of charisma. I can’t remember anything else about it, but I have a VHS tape in the loft.
Yes, but he’s on his holiday while you’re still doing your rounds.
Until today, I hadn’t known of Jesse Jackson’s gift for comedy:
Great man, ‘and’ in “Summer of Soul” which is pretty much the definition of being great anyway.