I often go down worm holes usually in Wikipedia. This may be well known but today I learned that John Lydon and Nora were due to be on Pan Am 103 the jumbo blown up over Lockerbie but missed it because Nora was late packing. However Paul Jeffreys was on board the bassist with Cockney Rebel.
Rather sad trivia
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I didn’t know that. It appears that he and his wife were heading on their honeymoon. Sad, as you stated, Clive – tragic, really.
The Beeb Lockerbie dramatisation was excellent. I didn’t think I wanted to watch it but gave it a try and actually it was very well done.
I love Wikipedia and give them a monthly bung in recognition of how much I use it. OK it might not be completely reliable but it’s pretty good and I’d rather go there than some AI thing (which is probably leeching Wikipedia anyway).
Me too, a fiver a month. I use it all the time.
I’m an editor too so I can correct irrelevant nerdy errors.
I like it too. It’s also one I donate to. There’s not many places on the web that are free and independent.
I think Holly Johnson was due to be on it also and an obituary was even briefly published in a newspaper
Robert Fripp’s former partner, poet Joanna Walton was on flight 103 also. She wrote the lyrics for the Exposure album (mostly).
I saw Steve Harley live not long after that – certainly within the year – and he dedicated Mr Soft to him
Yes me too he was looking rather ill
My brother was a team leader in the Northumberland National Park Fell Rescue Team at the time. They were involved in the recovery of some of the wreckage that fell across the border area.
It was horrifying.
Mrs F’s chum was a teacher at Lockerbie school. You can only imagine the horror.