George Melly dies

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sad

Oh, what a shame.

He was a very talented man.

I loved "stingy Janice" song

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(thought he was already dead? )

His wife was interviewed on the redio recently saying how he was still doing shows as all the old banter was still there most of the time, but he was struggling day to day.

That's very sad
Will really miss him & his performances.

I saw him perform a few times, he was great. One was a freebie in Greenwich Park, years ago, we were all half-drunk in the sunshine.

Odd? If so I wish more people were odd. A real jazz man.

Odd? A true original

Loved him. Am awfully sad . He is an almost exact contemporary of my dad, who shares a jaundiced view of the Senior Service and a love of surrealism with the late George.
Typical that despite the onset of vacular dementia he was doing a benefit gig for a relevant charity as recently as June 10th.

it is sad

slight hijack - Marina how cool is it that Emma Kirkby is now a Dame?

Oh that's sad

I think he had quite an interesting collection of surrealist art didn't he?

V cool MrsJC. It's taken the edge here off losing Max Morgan AND Thea King in recent weeks

THEA KING DIED?

oh no I didn't realise
she was lovely, I used to look after her when I worked at HOwarths

oh dear am really sad
one of my favourite clarinettists and people

Warm obits here at the weekend.
One of our student assistants is v. sad too, Thea was her teacher until very recently