Book of Condolence Thread
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NovemberJesus
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Carlos Montemayor, an activist and a philosopher who was very brave against oligarchy in politics and media in méxico, passed away this year the last day of february. We will never forget him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQGIDcTt9mU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQGIDcTt9mU
lainey
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Michael Foot, a former leader of the Labour Party and once described as a rebel who could never resist a cause, has died aged 96.
POLITICAL CAREER:
* Foot spent three years from 1980 as leader of the Labour Party.
* In June 1983, Labour was crushed at the polls by Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives and spent the next 14 years in exile, wracked by in-fighting under Foot and then Neil Kinnock. Kinnock succeeded him as leader in October 1983.
* Foot was in the end neither tough nor decisive enough to dispel his media image of a bohemian intellectual out of date and out of his depth in the modern politics of a television age. He was once ridiculed as eccentric for wearing a duffel coat at a formal memorial service for Britain's war dead.
* During his long political career he won affection for his personal warmth and passionate advocacy of left-wing causes, particularly the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. However, in October 1989, the fiery socialist announced he was stepping down from politics and would not seek re-election.
LIFE DETAILS:
* Born in July 1913, Michael Mackintosh Foot inherited his father's love of books and politics.
* He studied at Oxford University where he became the youngest president of the Oxford Union and was described by an undergraduate magazine as "the most brilliant post-war figure in Oxford politics."
* He was converted to socialism by mass unemployment and poverty of the 1930s. He joined the Labour Party, unsuccessfully stood for parliament in 1935 and became a left-wing journalist.
* Unfit for army service, Foot became acting editor of London's Evening Standard during World War Two and in 1945 won a seat in parliament.
* As a Labour backbencher he was an articulate spokesman for the left, advocating nationalisation, nuclear disarmament, disengagement from the Cold War and the alliance with the United States and non-participation in Europe.
* He finally joined a Labour government in 1974 when he became Employment Secretary under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. When Wilson resigned in 1976, Foot narrowly lost his bid for the party leadership to James Callaghan who became prime minister.
* Foot became leader of the House of Commons -- arranging the government's parliamentary business -- with the task of keeping afloat an administration which mostly lacked a majority.
* In 1980, Callaghan resigned and Foot beat former Chancellor Denis Healey to become party leader. But he was unable to tame Labour's militant left-wingers whose influence was growing.
* Foot was a lifelong Plymouth Argyle fan and becoming a director of the football club. In 2003, he was allocated the squad number 90 and regarded as an honorary player.
* He wrote a number of books including biographies of Aneurin Bevan and writer H.G Wells.
* Foot was married to Jill Craigie from 1949 until her death in 1999. She had in her own right a successful career as a film-maker and writer. The couple brought up Craigie's daughter by a previous marriage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot
POLITICAL CAREER:
* Foot spent three years from 1980 as leader of the Labour Party.
* In June 1983, Labour was crushed at the polls by Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives and spent the next 14 years in exile, wracked by in-fighting under Foot and then Neil Kinnock. Kinnock succeeded him as leader in October 1983.
* Foot was in the end neither tough nor decisive enough to dispel his media image of a bohemian intellectual out of date and out of his depth in the modern politics of a television age. He was once ridiculed as eccentric for wearing a duffel coat at a formal memorial service for Britain's war dead.
* During his long political career he won affection for his personal warmth and passionate advocacy of left-wing causes, particularly the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. However, in October 1989, the fiery socialist announced he was stepping down from politics and would not seek re-election.
LIFE DETAILS:
* Born in July 1913, Michael Mackintosh Foot inherited his father's love of books and politics.
* He studied at Oxford University where he became the youngest president of the Oxford Union and was described by an undergraduate magazine as "the most brilliant post-war figure in Oxford politics."
* He was converted to socialism by mass unemployment and poverty of the 1930s. He joined the Labour Party, unsuccessfully stood for parliament in 1935 and became a left-wing journalist.
* Unfit for army service, Foot became acting editor of London's Evening Standard during World War Two and in 1945 won a seat in parliament.
* As a Labour backbencher he was an articulate spokesman for the left, advocating nationalisation, nuclear disarmament, disengagement from the Cold War and the alliance with the United States and non-participation in Europe.
* He finally joined a Labour government in 1974 when he became Employment Secretary under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. When Wilson resigned in 1976, Foot narrowly lost his bid for the party leadership to James Callaghan who became prime minister.
* Foot became leader of the House of Commons -- arranging the government's parliamentary business -- with the task of keeping afloat an administration which mostly lacked a majority.
* In 1980, Callaghan resigned and Foot beat former Chancellor Denis Healey to become party leader. But he was unable to tame Labour's militant left-wingers whose influence was growing.
* Foot was a lifelong Plymouth Argyle fan and becoming a director of the football club. In 2003, he was allocated the squad number 90 and regarded as an honorary player.
* He wrote a number of books including biographies of Aneurin Bevan and writer H.G Wells.
* Foot was married to Jill Craigie from 1949 until her death in 1999. She had in her own right a successful career as a film-maker and writer. The couple brought up Craigie's daughter by a previous marriage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot
Jukebox Jury
Retired
Keith Alexander, manager of Macclesfield Town FC
Last year, a group of unemployed kids I was working with entered a regional 5 a side competition and each team was managed by a professional manager (Harry Bassett, Ian Dowie, Tony Pullis, Aidy Boothroyd and a few others) and my lads were managed by Keith Alexander.
Top bloke......at the end of the competiton, he said to me ''give me a call and we'll arrange for one day for the lads to come down to Macc and I'll give them a coaching session''.
The group never did as they finished their work a week or two later...but I dropped Keith a letter thanking him for his support on the day and his kind offer
Football, for all it's multi millionaires and fancy dans is a little bit poorer today
Thanks Keith for that special day
Jukebox Jury
Last year, a group of unemployed kids I was working with entered a regional 5 a side competition and each team was managed by a professional manager (Harry Bassett, Ian Dowie, Tony Pullis, Aidy Boothroyd and a few others) and my lads were managed by Keith Alexander.
Top bloke......at the end of the competiton, he said to me ''give me a call and we'll arrange for one day for the lads to come down to Macc and I'll give them a coaching session''.
The group never did as they finished their work a week or two later...but I dropped Keith a letter thanking him for his support on the day and his kind offer
Football, for all it's multi millionaires and fancy dans is a little bit poorer today
Thanks Keith for that special day
Jukebox Jury
Drew a swallow
deep and blue
Keith Alexander, manager of Macclesfield Town FC
Last year, a group of unemployed kids I was working with entered a regional 5 a side competition and each team was managed by a professional manager (Harry Bassett, Ian Dowie, Tony Pullis, Aidy Boothroyd and a few others) and my lads were managed by Keith Alexander.
Top bloke......at the end of the competiton, he said to me ''give me a call and we'll arrange for one day for the lads to come down to Macc and I'll give them a coaching session''.
The group never did as they finished their work a week or two later...but I dropped Keith a letter thanking him for his support on the day and his kind offer
Football, for all it's multi millionaires and fancy dans is a little bit poorer today
Thanks Keith for that special day
Jukebox Jury
Seconded. Tragic. He was taken ill last year too, wasn't he? Hope Hereford do the right thing and cancel saturdays match.
Jukebox Jury
Retired
Yes and no....
They had the chairman of Macc on local radio tonight, saying ''Keith would never had wanted a football game not to go ahead on his behalf...'' and I kind of agree with him.... play in his honour.....
He had a brain tumor about 5 / 6 years ago when manager at Lincoln....was touch and go for a while.....
Jukebox Jury
Drew a swallow
deep and blue
Yes and no....
They had the chairman of Macc on local radio tonight, saying ''Keith would never had wanted a football game not to go ahead on his behalf...'' and I kind of agree with him.... play in his honour.....
He had a brain tumor about 5 / 6 years ago when manager at Lincoln....was touch and go for a while.....
Jukebox Jury
Well apparently its up to his family if the game goes ahead or not. I suppose what you say is right. Every football man would want the game to go ahead.
Jukebox Jury
Retired
I've already told my kids..... when I depart this earth..... the Star & Garter must still go on......
Jukebox Jury
A decent and principled man - not many of those left at Westminster these days. My sympathies to his family.
Dave
nothingwrongwithme
My Heart Goes PiffPafPoff
I was very sad to hear this news. He really was a charming man with huge charisma. I had not that long ago put him as my number 2, after Morrissey, on a recent thread on solo regarding who I found attractive.
Gone too soon.
JulieDurham
Member
I'm speachless
http://pitchfork.com/news/38114-rip-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/
R.I.P.
From the Linkous Family: "It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today. We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts. May his journey be peaceful, happy and free. There’s a heaven and there’s a star for you."
http://pitchfork.com/news/38114-rip-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/
R.I.P.
From the Linkous Family: "It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today. We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts. May his journey be peaceful, happy and free. There’s a heaven and there’s a star for you."
morrisseychic
Seasick Yet Still Docked
(CBS) Canadian actor Corey Haim, known best for his role in the 1987 hit "The Lost Boys" has died, Los Angeles police confirmed Wednesday.
Officials said his death appears to have been accidental. Celebrity news Web site TMZ reports that, according to police sources, he died of an apparent overdose.
The 38-year-old actor had reportedly been struggling with drug addiction.
Officials said his death appears to have been accidental. Celebrity news Web site TMZ reports that, according to police sources, he died of an apparent overdose.
The 38-year-old actor had reportedly been struggling with drug addiction.
bysshe
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The Seeker of Good Songs
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Carol Clerk passed away on Saturday 13 March. Carol’s name will be familiar to anybody who read Melody Maker in the 80s and 90s where she edited the news section and was also frequently dispatched to interview all manner of rock’n’roll reprobates, be it Anti-Nowhere League (who I recall being photographed in the paper wearing Carol on their heads) or Hanoi Rocks (whose bad company almost got her a two-year stretch in an Israeli prison).
from: http://simongoddardwords.blogspot.com/2010/03/carol-clerk.html
from: http://simongoddardwords.blogspot.com/2010/03/carol-clerk.html
PregnantForTheLastTime
Hideous trait.
Alex Chilton died in New Orleans today.
Charlie Gillet (1942-2010)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/17/charlie-gillett-obituary
I enjoyed Charlie's radio show on BBC London.
First and last time I saw him as a DJ for Dub Pistol's gig.
RIP.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/17/charlie-gillett-obituary
I enjoyed Charlie's radio show on BBC London.
First and last time I saw him as a DJ for Dub Pistol's gig.
RIP.
JulieDurham
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