Category Archives: RIP

Joy Division USA Tour 1980

May 18, 2012 – 2:22 pm

32 years ago New Wave rockers across America were excitedly anticipating Joy Division’s May 1980. The Manchester band was scheduled to appear at Hurrah in New York for three nights. None of us were expecting to hear the news of the singer’s suicide on the eve of his departure. Ian Curtis was dead. He had [...]

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Donna Summer RIP

May 17, 2012 – 2:28 pm

Music critics have argued over whether the first disco song was the Hues Corporation’s “Rock the Boat”, George McCrae’s “Rock Your Baby” or”Kung Fu Fighting” by Biddu and Carl Douglas, but incontestably the greatest hit of disco was LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY by Donna Summer. Sadly the Queen of Disco has passed from the [...]

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Mira Tibblin RIP

May 15, 2012 – 7:36 pm

Paris is a magical city. Parisians have boasted about the French capitol as ‘La Ville-Lumière’ or City of Lights as much for its ilumination as its well-deserved reputation for thought. I was lucky enough to have lived in Paris during the 80s. I learned the language, I ate the food, and I slept with the [...]

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Good-Bye Philippe Waty

April 9, 2012 – 11:53 am

Tomorrow in Paris friends of Philippe Waty will be gathering to say good-bye. He was a good guy.

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Poor Baby

March 23, 2012 – 10:00 am

Last February Whitney Houston died in suite 434 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She was found submerged in the bathtub. The loss of the megastar saddened her fans around the world and yesterday the LA coroner announced the causes of death as accidental drowning due to cocaine, Benadryl, Xanax, marijuana and Flexiril. Heart failure was [...]

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