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Because 2018 somehow is still a thing
Those we have lost and I feel strongly about.
Just on News 24 now. Manager and record mogul for some of the greatest bands ever, the person who first put the Sex Pistols on TV and long-time reporter on Manchester’s local Granada Reports. It had been coming for a while, but the news is still a shock. And damn, Wikipedia are quick…
Full tribute appearing in this space soon.
Now discussions about the Madeline McCann case (not Maddy – it’s a media infantilisation along the lines of “Jamie” Bulger, she wasn’t Maddy and he was always James) have a tendency to drift towards the heartless and so I’ve avoided putting my two cents in to avoid it rubbing off; however the latest news article from the Guardian on the latest rather downbeat turn in the investigation has a little bit near the end which really rather surprised me.
It is not the first time Portuguese police have searched an area following a tip off. It is understood their last search was carried out following contact with a psychic medium in America.
Read that again, because it’s truly incredible that police would at all put any trust in any evidence gained from that sort of source…
…a psychic medium in America.
No wonder they haven’t found anything yet then. Was it Allison DuBois?
As the Tom Tom Club nearly put it: he was the Godfather of Soul, you know, so check it out.
And if there wasn’t James Brown, there wouldn’t be a “Funky Drummer” sample and there’s so much hip-hop that would simply not have happened without him; without soul and funk samples, after all, a lot of music wouldn’t have happened at all, especially stuff like “Paul’s Boutique” or “Endtroducing”. It’s a great loss to music. Besides, anyone in The Blues Brothers deserves our lasting respect.
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