Larry Kramer - d. May 27th 2020

Amid those years of chaos,

waist-deep in prejudice,

you cut through the BS,

wrote uncomfortable justice,

of the first lesions, the KS,

the plague before the abyss, 

scripted a warning, a witness.

Read about Larry Kramer here

Fred Willard - d. May 15th 2020

Eh, wha’appen? 
I blinked and missed you,
then rewatched,
as all of us must surely do,
and you snuck in,
smiling, not knowing a damn
thing. I went for you
like you were made outta ham.

Read about Fred Willard Here

Astrid Kirchherr - d. May 12th 2020

Your wraith, in half-shadow,
is the spectre in the cellar
or the dark boutiques of 
Mathew Street, St Pauli.
A stylish ghost, friend to
genius, tutor in the art
of the unschoolable cool.

Read about Astrid Kirchherr Here

Little Richard - d. May 9th 2020

Hail! Hail! We genuflect
before the king who wrote the book.
Originator. Architect.
You sang a prayer, then ripped it up.

read about Little Richard here

Florian Schneider - d. May 6th 2020

Sounds. Rhythms. Frontiers. Legend.
Sounds. Rhythms. Frontiers. Legend.
Sounds. Rhythms. Frontiers. Legend.
Sounds. Rhythms. Frontiers. Legend.

Read about Florian Schneider here

Millie Small - d. May 5th 2020

My, girl, 
how you lit the fuse 
to that cane-sweet beat, 
blue as Kingston sky, 
mashing up systems 
from here to Brixton,
making the world 
go giddy-up.

Read about Millie Small here

Dave Greenfield - d. May 3rd 2020

No more your riffsinblack,
textures like suninblack.
Play then the dirgeinblack:
Long gone is youthinblack.

Read about Dave Greenfield here

Jill Gascoine - d. April 29th 2020

We need someone to be
the first to the old scene,
cast an eye on a dark place,
witness and be witnessed,
gather fresh new evidence,
present a gentler case.

Read about Jill Gascoine here

Gabi Delgado - d. March 22nd 2020

All is not good today.
Sweat drips as you channel 
Ramone and Moroder, 
sex and steroids, leather
and propaganda, body
and rhetoric colliding forever.

Heute ist nicht alles gut.

Schweiß tropft, während Sie kanalisieren

Ramone und Moroder,

Sex und Steroide, Leder

und Propaganda, Körper

und Rhetorik kollidiert für immer.

read about Gabi Delgado here

Norman Hunter - d. April 17th 2020

Among the artisans
imagining themselves 
on canvasses of grass
are the easel-carriers,
biters, thwarters, 
necessary masters 
of the unbeautiful game.

Read about Norman Hunter here

Tim Brooke-Taylor - d. April 12th 2020

Good news from the bunker.

I had to read it again:

how three is indivisible

by one, how having a clue

is overrated, how being silly 

for a living is the antidote.

read about Tim Brooke-Taylor here

Stirling Moss - d. April 12th 2020

Fast off the grid into Moxie, 
sharp left-hander at Doughty,

drop down into Grit Corner,

up the gears through Cocksure,
dab on the brakes at 90

then flat out to Arcadia.

Read about Stirling Moss here

James Drury - d. April 6th 2020

Let us ride out, you and I,
on a pair of snowy Appaloosas,
saddled with a displaced youth, 
leave Shiloh in its lushness
for a West of the imagination.

read about James Drury here

John Prine - d. April 7th 2020

In the lonely jukebox 
is a track that rarely plays,
a dust-marbled disc,
etched by rough diamond,
revolving in its own time
at the speed of sound.

Read about John Prine here

Honor Blackman - d. April 5th 2020

They brought you
in black leathers 
to a black cloud,
to play a golden harp,
turn angels to devils,
and flighty girls 
into flinty women.

Read about Honor Blackman here

Bill Withers - d. March 30th 2020

I heard a man, 
voice like sunup,
sing a thousand songs,
yet was consumed 
by his own resonance, 
a single breath, a single
note that never ends.

Read about Bill Withers here

Julie Felix - d. March 22nd 2020

We can officially report
that you have left the cast
of your own days, that zoo
of the exotic, all too short.
Heaven is here for you,
the first lady, and the last.

Read about Julie Felix here

Eddie Large - d. April 2nd 2020

These are last gags in the panto,
the end-of-the-pier show. Man goes
into a working men's club one night,
grasps his moment. The shaky light
follows him and fate takes charge,
the tiniest chance becoming large. 

Read about Eddie Large here

Kenny Rogers - d. March 20th 2020

Somewhere in the darkness
they still deal your deck of songs, 
twists of warmth, of conscience,
rich and deep with aces we can keep.

Read about Kenny Rogers here

Roy Hudd - d. March 15th 2020

You were the final turn

in a paradise of feeds and 

stooges, front-cloth angels 

dying in their four minute

spots, still reeling off gags
as empires flamed and fell.

Read about Roy Hudd here