Cicely Tyson - d. January 28th 2021

Aunt Jemima is dead,

helped off the screen

and into history, read

wrong but remade right

and acted as truth, seen

and heard, like new light.

Read about Cicely Tyson here

Phil Spector - d. January 16th 2021

I tried to keep it going -

that loving feeling - through

the screaming madnesses,

breached wall of your sound.

You deserve less than these

words, and yet much more.

Read about Phil Spector here

Barbara Shelley - d. January 4th 2021

How do you destroy a legend?

Not by the driven stake,

sword-lop or bloodsuck.

O Mistress of the macabre, 

what’s a nice girl like you

doing in a film like this?

Read about Barbara Shelley here

Sylvain Sylvain - d. January 13th 2021

That's my kind of trash;

riffing tough, cheap

and only a little nasty,

one foot in platforms,

the other in stilettos,

veins full of raw junk.

Read about Sylvain Sylvain here

Michael Apted - d. January 7th 2021

Give me the child until they 

are seven; I will show the way

of things - the people you can

and cannot become, the man 

in the boy, the woman in the girl,

enough for this or any world.

Read about Michael Apted here

Colin Bell - d. January 5th 2021

From the Ballet on Ice

and quagmires of 1972

exits Nijinsky of the North,

blond sovereign of time,

King of the bluest memory.

Read about Colin Bell here

Gerry Marsden - d. January 3rd 2021

This is the last record,

so sing to us of rivers,

torn hearts and storms.

Another dance is over

- safe home, everyone -

but still the night rings

to a sweet silver song.

Read about Gerry Marsden here