RIP Terry Hall

[cloggy saint]

The Specials were an amazing band and a big part of my youth. Gone at 63 years old 😒.

[CB Fry]

The early Specials stuff was brilliant but then so were Fun Boy Three, and I am also a fan of his 1990s solo stuff, "Home" is a lovely Album.

Plus his collaborations with Damon/Gorrillaz. Plus "Our lips are sealed". Oh, just great.

Proper Great British pop star. Will be missed.

[whelk]

Great character and lovely fella. Had some real shit from childhood to deal with. RIP

[egg]

13 minutes ago, whelk said:

Great character and lovely fella. Had some real shit from childhood to deal with. RIP

I hadn't realised what happened to him as a kid. Absolutely awful, and fair play to the guy for talking about that stuff in the manner that he did, and for being as successful as he was. I loved his music, and my respect for him has gone up several notches. RIP indeed. 

[whelk]

10 minutes ago, egg said:

I hadn't realised what happened to him as a kid. Absolutely awful, and fair play to the guy for talking about that stuff in the manner that he did, and for being as successful as he was. I loved his music, and my respect for him has gone up several notches. RIP indeed. 

Yeah BBC have done a decent piece. Goes further than just repeating a few tweets

[egg]

5 minutes ago, whelk said:

Yeah BBC have done a decent piece. Goes further than just repeating a few tweets

It was the BBC piece that I read. Horrendous what happened to him, and amazing that he resisted the medication he needed for so long. 

[The Left Back]

Such a great stage presence and his songs were poetry.  I didn't know the kidnap story, just shows you can't tell a book by it's cover; I thought he was just angry about Thatcher.

Glad I got to see him one more time at Roundhouse in Camden a few years ago; still relevant after 40 years.

[Sheaf Saint]

9 hours ago, cloggy saint said:

Gone at 63 years old 😒.

Much too young  

RIP Terry. A real legend of British music whose influence is still strong to this day.

Edited 20 December, 2022 by Sheaf Saint

[Turkish]

Another one who didnt realise what had happened to him as a kid, that's mental!

 Specials were brilliant and he was a great artist. 

[Toadhall Saint]

One of the first bands I experienced live back in the late 70’s/early 80’s. RIP Mr Hall - thanks for everything.

[The Cat]

Sad news, he was such an influential musician.

[Turkish]

Martin Duffy from primal scream gone as well. 🥲

[Turkish]

Nicked from facebook

The Specials. Terry. This is what happened.
 
We had it all planned out. Make the album we were going to do in 2020 – a reggae album.
Record in Los Angeles in November. We had the studio booked, flights paid for, accommodation sorted. Roger Rivas from The Agrolites was going to co-produce. Shepard Fairey was going to do the cover. Lynval, still recovering from his spinal surgery earlier in the year, was over in the UK and raring to go. Terry had the framework for 8 tunes. Confidence was high. We were set to meet up with Nikolaj and make magic. This was in September. Terry e-mails everyone and says he’s in bed with a stomach bug and can’t do the first week of pre-production sessions. No big deal, we can knock everything back a week. We’re not due to fly out until November 4th. The next week, Terry is no better and is in hospital. There’s not much we can do except wait for him to get better. Sunday October 2nd and I get a phone call from Manager Steve.
And everything turns to shit.
Terry’s illness is a lot worse than we thought.
He has been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas which has spread to his liver.
This is serious. Like life-threatening serious.
He has developed diabetes due to his pancreas being attacked. This has to be treated first, then it’s a regime of chemotherapy.
There is nothing anyone can do. Everything is put on hold.
Terry is emphatic that no-one be told about this. If anyone asks, he’s managing his diabetes.
The chemo treatment starts favourably but it seems that it would be March 2023 at the earliest before we’d be in any position to work. He is in and out of hospital to stabilise the diabetes issue and also to manage pain.
It then goes quiet.
Beginning of December and reports are not good. Terry has lost a lot of weight and is very frail. His friend Ian Broudie visits and phones Manager Steve. He fears that Terry is slipping away.
15th December and Manager Steve drives up to London to visit. He calls me on his return journey and says things are not looking promising. Terry is dying. The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time. I thought it would be best for me to go and visit but Lindy, his wife, advises against it. She has held her phone to Terry’s ear so that his sisters and Lynval can say their goodbyes. She suggests I do the same. So, I did. It was tough.
Terry died around half past 5 the next evening, Sunday 18th December.
The world has lost a unique voice and I have lost a good friend.
Horace.

[skintsaint]

4 hours ago, Turkish said:

Martin Duffy from primal scream gone as well. 🥲

Idiot mate of mine text this morning saying all these celebrities are dying due to the jab (he is also a flat earther etc). I said it looks like he fell down the stairs, but still he thinks its because he lost consciousness due to a heart issue and fell down them, the media are trying to cover it up. FFS.

[whelk]

With Richard Herring a few years back. mentions the abduction as matter of fact and Herring obviously bit taken aback.

 

Edited 21 December, 2022 by whelk

[Saint in Paradise]

When I first saw the name "Terry Hall" I instantly thought of the ventriloquist and Lenny the Lion.

I also thought that he had died years ago which in fact he had.

I had never heard of the chap it was actually about.

 

 

[Turkish]

Bloody hell, now Maxi Jazz from faithless has died 🥲

terrible week or so for music 🥲

[cloggy saint]

Just seen this, only 65 years old 😒. Why do so many stars die around Christmas?

[Sheaf Saint]

On 24/12/2022 at 17:28, Turkish said:

Bloody hell, now Maxi Jazz from faithless has died 🥲

terrible week or so for music 🥲

Apparently he died peacefully in his sleep.

Pretty ironic really.