Christine McVie - d. November 30th 2022

Welcome to Sausalito-in-the-Sky,

where the walls of an old studio

ring with reverb, sunset ballads 

we all know but cannot sing, songs

some of us need like never before.

Read about Christine McVie here

Doddie Weir - d. November 26th 2022

My name’s Dauntless.
My name’s Dig in and drive.
My name’s Defence into attack,
Defeat into victory, Dark into light.
My name’s Dogged. Dreadnought. 
Die-hard. Dare. Defy. Dream. 
My name’s Deathless.

Irene Cara - d. November 25th 2022

Live forever? Maybe through a song,

a move, a moment of sad sunshine.

Fame is not that they remember

your name; it is that they remember

who they were when they heard it.

Wilko Johnson - d. November 21st 2022

It’s tense by the jetty, down in the delta

where waters seethe with chemicals.

We set afloat a bluesman and guitar,

a man who could not bear to stand still,

a man we thought could not be killed.

Read about Wilko Johnson here

 

Atarah Ben-Tovim - d. October 20th 2022

I wake in a tuneless limbo

among the tin-eared dead.

A woman speaks giocoso,

opens up an instrument case,

hands me Joshua’s trumpet;

Go on, blow. You never know.

Read about Atarah Ben-Tovim here

Keith Levene - d. November 11th 2022

What’s your name? It is more 

than angry noise and image,

more than unlearned chords.

It is the sound of the edge

coming in to smash the centre.

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Bill Treacher - d. November 8th 2022

Let us come along with you,

up the Allotment, down the Vic,

or wherever families fall in front

of the telly, wondering how a story

might end, yours and ours. 

A Christmas is coming,

and we will all pay for it.

Read about Bill Treacher here

Leslie Phillips - d. November 7th 2022

This world was once just a lark,

an excuse for calculated charm, 

the carrying on of carrying on,

and silly was a serious business. 

But lumme, is that the time?

He-llo. And yes, good-bye.

Read about Leslie Phillips here