Saeed Jaffrey - d. November 15th 2015

You dignified a continent
we only knew through archetypes
lit your scenes a different way, 
spoke in your own accent,
found a better passage.



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Cynthia Payne - d. November 15th 2015

In my Father's disorderly house
are many rooms; behind each door 
I hear the rustle of satin, the swish
of the crop, the cork leaving the bottle.

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Warren Mitchell - d. November 14th 2015

See, the trouble wiv actors
is they ain't real people.
They're all Jews or queers,
never done a day's work,
never changed nuffin'.

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Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor - d. November 11th 2015

Ahead of the beat,

behind the beat,

missing the beat,

subbed, overdubbed,

drunk, sunk, out of time.

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Andy White - d. November 9th 2015

Forget what madness followed;

when it really, really mattered,

you played to tempo, kept it tight,

packed the sticks, took the bus home.

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Allen Toussaint - d. November 10th 2015

The fortune teller said
a man will come,
a hurricane of song.
He'll take a melody, 
sweat out a rhythm,
make the levees sing.

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Colin Welland - d. November 2nd 2015

I remember those blue hills,
the emptying playing fields,
the hum of a squad car
in a new town.
I hear a voice on the wind;
the actor is coming.

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