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Post 1081
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Feb 20, 2013
Kevin Ayres
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21517041
That reminds me of a friend who died a few years ago. She was a big fan of Kevin Ayres when we were at school. Someone mentioned his name one day in the sixth form common room and she said "Ooh, orgasms orgasms" 
Happy days 
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Post 1083
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Feb 20, 2013
That was Lol Coxhill playing the soprano sax solo in the middle of that song. I've just discovered that he died too, last July 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/11/lol-coxhill
He could do magic things with a reed
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Post 1084
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Feb 22, 2013
Well that's just spooky 
Bob Godfrey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21552718
The animator and narrator of Roobarb within a week of each other 
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Post 1085
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Feb 24, 2013
Ray Cusick
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21563344
Blimey, what a week! But I suppose with the boom in the number of celebs that began in the mid 50s with the advent of rock and roll and television becoming a lot more popular they're going to be, well, dropping like flies 
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Post 1086
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Feb 28, 2013
Bruce Reynolds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21617926
That's very weird - I watched Buster only four days ago.
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Post 1087
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Mar 5, 2013
Hugo Chavez
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21679053
And already the 'Pray for Venezuela' tweets are coming out of the woodwork 
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Post 1088
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Mar 6, 2013
Alvin Lee
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21688814
I must be honest and say that apart from 'I'm Going Home', off the Woodstock album, I wouldn't know a Ten Years After or Alvin Lee song if it bit me on the bum, but that Woodstock performance more than makes up for it and I'd often play side 4 more than the other five.
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Post 1089
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Mar 7, 2013
Kenny Ball
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21700146
For the average British man or woman who had no specialist knowledge of jazz in the 60s and 70s there was a handful jazz names everyone knew. I'd take a guess that Acker Bilk, Humphrey Littleton, Johnny Dankworth and Kenny Ball were probably the most well known. Kenny Ball had the advantage of being on television more often than the others (at least that's how it seemed to a young Gosho) especially on Morecambe and Wise, including the Christmas shows which half the population watched each year, and there weren't many others playing trad jazz. And in our house he got a little extra love because he was an east London boy 
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Post 1090
Posted Mar 7, 2013
Strange feeling today. I met them all when I was a teenager helping at a Jazz festival. Some were nice and some were arrogant, but I loved the music, still do. Definitely a Trad person though not a fan of the improvised stuff.
I must say that in my 40s I very much enjoyed a night at Ronnie Scott's
Websailor 
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Post 1091
Don't Gosho me if you don't know me
Posted Mar 15, 2013
Norman Collier
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21798955
The broken mike routine. Simple ideas, perfectly executed are always the best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYpQyJ_bTiw
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