No worries Dinger.
We’ll wake you up when it’s all over
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Please add me to the list Phil.
RIP Nipper…shitty age to have life cut short. 
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I’d never heard of him either. Just read that he earned $250,000 a night on tour. That’s a lot of cabbage for spinning records.
Did he do weddings?
I DJed a wedding once. Got paid in beer. I feel now that I might have been short-changed.
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Mini Me from the Austin Powers movies has passed away.
So here is a Tim whatever thing
Aka Avicii.
This lass is 14 years old ffs what a voice.
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A friend recommended Frightened Rabbit to me. Saw them at Soton uni and only saw Scott play solo at Frank Turner’s Lost Evening last year. Tonight we are heading to the first night of Lost Evenings where I am sure Scott will be remembered.
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I could have written that myself as a friend recommended them to me too.
I saw he was missing but hadn’t realised they’d found a body.
A terrible waste. Hope he’s found some sort of peace and that those he’s left behind are not too scarred.
This seems apt.
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Bob bowed out 37 years ago today 
Old school politician gone
Lois Lane is dead! (Margot Kidder)
Very sad to hear about the death of Glenn Branca, one of the greats of New York art music and a massive influence on post-punk and Sonic Youth in particular.
And now this, which is nothing short of tragic: http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/16227085.Former_Aston_Villa_and_Bolton_defender_Jlloyd_Samuel_dies_aged_37_in_car_crash/
And now World Cup winner, Ray Wilson: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44140722
BTW Bletch, I presume your down vote was for the news and not for me personally?
Sorry mate, I have no recollection of even voting.
Definitely no downvote intended.
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Philip Roth, the American author who supposedly caught the zeitgeist back in the mid-20th century.
I have to admit that I’ve never read any of his books and have rarely felt the need to do so. I’ve never read a John Updike book either, although I have read a couple of Saul Bellow novels. Given I would regard myself as a pretty well-read individual, I wonder how widely read Roth is outside the US.
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I’ve read a few of his - Portnoy’s Complaint is brilliant but none of the other ones was anywhere near as good.
I’ve read some Roth and it’s pretty entertaining. But Updike is (was) brilliant. The Rabbit series has got a lot to say that’s still painfully relevant to current American society, and he tells a good yarn with it.
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