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(((Hugs))) @Beatlebug
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Vibing to “Deep Blue” cuz one of my relatives passed away today – a great-uncle, not someone I was extremely close to, but nevertheless; you think people are always going to be there, but they’re not.
Awfully sorry, @Beatlebug, for you and for your family, and your great-uncle’s friends 
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Online I’m sorry to hear about that @Beatlebug. My heart goes out to you and your family.
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14 January 2013
Offline Jimmy Buffett famous for the song Margaritaville died yesterday.
Paul apparently sang for Jimmy during his final week. Jimmy was from my home area of Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast. I try to take comfort that maybe my dad wanted some good music to listen to in heaven.
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Offline Sad to hear that Jimmy Buffet passed. Though I’m not quite a “parrothead” I’m still a big fan of many of his songs —
Margaritaville
Volcano
Grapefruit Juicy Fruit
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Pencil Thin Mustache
Desperation Samba
Pascagoula Run.
I trust Jimmy’s having a cheeseburger in Paradise right about now. I’ll drink a mojito to your memory
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Offline I had a friend who was a parrot head. She spent all of her vacation time from work going to Buffett concerts. She left us for the great Margaritaville in the sky several years ago. A few days after getting an “all-clear” check-up from her doctor, she dropped dead of a heart attack one morning while she was getting ready for to go to work.
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14 January 2013
Offline I went to all the Jimmy Buffett places yesterday with my mom yesterday on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (mainly Pascagoula)
(I had written much more, but the page refreshed when I was spell checking. So, now I’m lazy.)
I got a laugh when Paul said Jimmy had Louisiana accent. I guess to a non local or even non American they could similar as someone not from UK thinking all UK accents sound similar. Louisiana to me has more a beat or volume opposed to a Gulf Coast or even just a southern accent. Gulf Coast like Jimmy had (when he talked) is an ever so subtle southern accent. Meaning it sounds like a normal American accent with a slight southern twang on words. It’s not that DEEP southern drawl like you come straight out of the woods or farm (the stereotypical south accent). Reason being is the gulf coast has people from all over coming to live here like military and snow birds, so a melting pot.
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Carla Bley, the pianist, composer, bandleader, and pioneer of the free jazz movement, has died from complications of brain cancer, The New York Times reports, citing the musician’s partner of more than 30 years, bassist Steve Swallow. Bley was 87 years old.
Bley was born Lovella May Borg in Oakland, California. She moved to New York in the 1950s, working as a cigarette vendor at the famed Birdland jazz club before meeting and marrying jazz pianist Paul Bley. The couple toured together and she began composing original works, and Paul Bley’s 1964 album Barrage consisted entirely of Carla’s compositions. A few years later, in 1967, the Bleys divorced.
Bley released her best known work, the jazz opera Escalator Over the Hill, in 1971. It involved dozens of musicians, including Linda Ronstadt, Jack Bruce, and Charlie Haden. Beyond her own albums as a bandleader, she also worked closely with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason on his 1981 solo debut album, Nick Mason’s Fictious Sports, writing and co-producing all of its tracks.
Beyond her work as a musician, Bley founded multiple record labels, JCOA Records and the ECM-distributed Watt, releasing work by Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, and others. She and Michael Mantler also established the nonprofit New Music Distribution Service, which helped connect JCOA, ECM, and other labels to larger audiences. It remained in operation from 1972 to 1990.
Carla Bley was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship for music composition in 1972. Decades later, in 2015, she was recognized as a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. Bley released the final album of her lifetime—Life Goes On, a collaboration with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow—in 2020
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Offline “She moved to New York in the 1950s, working as a cigarette vendor at the famed Birdland jazz club before meeting and marrying jazz pianist Paul Bley.”
What an image that conjures!
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21 July 2023
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Very sad to hear Denny has passed. Was following the updates on his health closely and heard there was a benefit concert held for him just over a week ago too.
Thank you for your huge part in the beautiful music of Wings and may you rest in peace, Denny.
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6 May 2018
Offline Denny Laine died in Naples, Florida, aged 79, of lung disease. Born Brian Hines in the Channel Islands, he was raised in Birmingham, England; and his inspiration to take up the guitar came from the influence of jazz legend Django Reinhardt.
Denny was an original member of The Moody Blues, contributing vocals and guitar to their early rhythm and blues-oriented sound. He played a significant role in the band’s evolution during their formative years from 1964 to 1966, and he sang lead vocals on their number one hit ‘Go Now’.
Subsequently, from 1971 to 1981, he was in the band Wings, collaborating closely with Paul McCartney . Together, they co-wrote several songs, including the huge hit ‘Mull Of Kintyre ‘, which held the record for being the best-selling UK single until 1984.
Paul McCartney wrote:
I am very saddened to hear that my ex-bandmate, Denny Laine, has died.
I have many fond memories of my time with Denny: from the early days when The Beatles toured with the Moody Blues. Our two bands had a lot of respect for each other and a lot of fun together. Denny joined Wings at the outset. He was an outstanding vocalist and guitar player. His most famous performance is probably ‘Go Now’ an old Bessie Banks song which he would sing brilliantly. He and I wrote some songs together the most successful being ‘Mull Of Kintyre ’ which was a big hit in the Seventies. We had drifted apart but in recent years managed to reestablish our friendship and share memories of our times together.
Denny was a great talent with a fine sense of humour and was always ready to help other people. He will be missed by all his fans and remembered with great fondness by his friends. I send my condolences and best wishes to his wife, Elizabeth and family.
Peace and love Denny. It was a pleasure to know you. We are all going to miss you.
Love,
Paul
RIP Denny Laine (29 October 1944 – 5 December 2023)
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15 February 2015
Offline I knew he was ailing, but it’s truly uncanny that he went out today, on the 50th anniversary of Wings’s biggest record.
I’ll always love the vocal chemistry he had with Paul and Linda, and he will be missed. My thoughts go particularly to his wife and family.
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Offline Good choice — No Words was co-written by Denny and I really like that song. I always wonder which parts were written by whom and how they collaborated.
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Offline I always felt a bit sorry for how it ended for Denny after the Wings split as he was such an important part of the group and contributed some great songs. Hopefully he will get some more credit and appreciation as people look back, sadly that’s how life happens.
‘Children, Children’ was one of the reasons I would relisten to ‘London Town ‘ as the album is so inconsistent.
‘I Would Only Smile’ is another great song, and stupidly cut from the original ‘RRS’ double album instead of some awful stuff by Paul – music people truly have no idea (see George’s ‘Somewhere In England ‘).
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I’m curious about the truth behind the story that he sold the publishing rights to ‘Mull Of Kintyre ‘ to McCartney to pay debts/tax, possibly after the cancellation of the Wings tour of Japan and the band’s subsequent split. I’ve read conflicting accounts.
This is what Philip Norman says in his McCartney biography (I know he’s awful, but it’s the only mention I could find in a book):
The timing could not have been worse for still more embarrassing revelations from a formerly intimate and trusted associate. Since the end of Wings, Denny Laine’s solo career had not prospered and his financial difficulties had multiplied to the point where he’d sold his equity as co-writer of ‘Mull Of Kintyre ’ back to Paul for £135,000. Now, following his ex-wife’s example, his memoirs of the Wings era were all over a British tabloid, in this case the far nastier and more widely-read Sun.
I’ve also heard that the sum was originally a loan, and that the MoK exchange happened because McCartney’s lawyers insisted that something be put up as collateral/surety (I’m also a bit vague on legal terms), and the song (published by MPL) became solely Paul’s when Denny defaulted. I don’t know if it’s just for MoK or if his other Wings songs were included.
I also read that the tell-all Sun interview was for a biography, and the writer sold it to the Scum, rather than Denny, but I don’t know if that’s true. I’d quite like to read the interview, because it seems to have caused a rift that took around a decade to heal.
Anyway, rest in peace Denny. Take those broken Wings and learn to fly.
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Good choice — No Words was co-written by Denny and I really like that song.
Yes, that’s why I posted it.
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7 November 2022
Offline I figured your choice wasn’t a felicitously random accident! 
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14 December 2009
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