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Tuesday 27 December 2016

Enough Already


2016 has been a truly terrible year.
Brexit. Trump, Aleppo and the loss of so many that provided the music of our youth.

On hearing of the death of Rick Parfitt I commented that hopefully he was the last of the class of 2016.
Sadly it was not to be




Status Quo - Down Down

George Michael - Careless Whisper

8 comments:

  1. And still it continues. Drummer Alphonse Mouzon, who played with virtually every jazz great over the past 40 years, died on Boxing Day.

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    1. Not really Swede. Not him. Saw him several times during the last decades. Seldom heard a drummer who's able to beat any rhytm. Another great loss this year m

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    2. Not really Swede. Not him. Saw him several times during the last decades. Seldom heard a drummer who's able to beat any rhytm. Another great loss this year m

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  2. I was never a fan of either but sad nonetheless. This way beyond strange now.

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  3. The Michael death is the saddest, for me, of all them this year (so far). A combination of two things, one, that he was four months younger than me, and two, that he was a bit of a lost soul, musically, after the Listen Without Prejudice album. He semed a damned decent bloke.

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