Earl Lindo, keyboard player for Bob Marley and the Wailers.
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Not a good week for musical legends. Holger Czukay, one of the founders of Can, has died aged 79.
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Probably more familiar to @GilbertWham and myself
He was one of the people who Roger Mellie (The man on the telly) was based on (Although Mike Neville was not a racist misogynist as far as I know).
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John Ashbery. In my world, poets are celebrities.
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Years ago my spouse and I went to see A Prairie Home Companion. We hung around after the show and Garrison Keillor came out and talked to us. He and I started talking poetry and he said “I’ve started reading Ashbery. He’s challenging but I like it.” I asked if he’d read Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror.
He hadn’t and I said “You’re in for a real treat.”
Of course given the circles Keillor travels in he probably met Ashbery.
And I remember the thrill years before that I felt when I first read The Lonedale Operator in a Norton anthology. That was my introduction.
Thank you for that.
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Balls… Just found out about that.
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Lofti Zadeh, who invented fuzzy logic. Ironically, his death was prematurely announced last August by Tehran University.
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Not my personal choice of science fiction or politics
As far as I know he wasn’t the first person to write a novel on a computer, that was Len Deighton who wrote Bomber on one in 1968-70
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Edith Windsor worked for equality.
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Rick Stevens, former Tower of Power vocalist
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Grant Hart has died.
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@beschizza beat us to one.
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Really sad news. Such a great wrestling personality and heel. From everything I saw he was a real stand up guy as well.
It’s such cruel irony that someone that was as great of a talker as he was ended up being afflicted with throat cancer.
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“Petrov died on May 19… but was not widely reported until now.”
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Oh, damn it.
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Double damn it.
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