Robert Elms
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Stan has gone. The most beautiful footballer, the most beautiful man I ever encountered. My heart is bursting, my eyes are swimming. The soul of our club, the last of a kind. Stanley, you are loved.
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Shane McGowan was the greatest lyricist of his age; rumbustious, poetic, profound. A master craftsman and a wild romantic. A proud Irishman and a great Londoner.
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Terry Hall. Why do the good ones go too soon? I think this weeks four-for is sorted. Much too young.
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Now Benjamin Zephaniah has gone. Another wonderful, inspiring human being, who regularly came on the show to educate, entertain and inform with his gentle charisma and steely intellect. He was a great man and his wisdom will be missed.
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I have wanted Kirk Douglas's blue cagoule in the Heroes of Telemark since first watching it in 1965.
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Farewell to Griffin park. Love that ground, the pubs, the atmosphere, the Mark Bircham goal in the 89th minute.
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Currently watching Spanish waves, but back in Blighty and back on air on Sunday 26th September. From then on,I’m on Friday Saturday and Sunday mornings and you better promise to join me.
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Why do so many people feel the need to criticise London, when I would not dream of demeaning the place they call home? This is home to 8 million people.
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Don’t forget I’m back on air on Friday and it will be funky. It will also be four hours so I’ll need your help.
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Feeling far from home, missing my city on this morning. Awoke to the news, but know we will be strong, we live here, we're from here. Love
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@SVG__Collection
Good list but a little conservative. No Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Horace Tapscott.
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Dear Crystal Palace if you can't find a place in your team for the brilliance of Ebere Eze can we have him back please.
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Spike made the world shine just by being in it. I loved that man, but then so did everybody who ever met him. The world for all of us is now a duller place.
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Just woke up to hear Robbie Robertson has gone. Set his compass North he's got winter in his blood. Farewell to a giant.
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Thank you for all your support this year. Have a merry Christmas.
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Happy New Year London
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My mum left us eleven years ago today. This was her in 1947 at St James’ Church W11 the day she married my dad. My dad has been gone 56 years. I miss them both every day.
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@prodnose
Greatest singer these islands have ever produced. First four solo albums and all Faces albums.
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Happy birthday to my beautiful wife
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@watsoncomedian
No, the game is to leave it as late as possible, while still being the first one. You really need to read the bus to get your timing right.
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Mr Weird, one of the giants has gone. Wayne Shorter, The Native Dancer, who played like no other, your melodies will live forever.
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Commentators desperately trying to make this semi final interesting. Worse football I've watched all season and I'm a QPR season ticket holder.
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just bought a bottle of Beaujolais Village with a sticker on it saying DO NOT MICROWAVE. Should I be concerned for humanity?
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Making Ebere Eze defend is like making Picasso hang wallpaper. Palace set him free or give him back.
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12 years since she left us and I still miss her
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Just read Patti Smith's obituary for Tom Verlaine. Perhaps the most elegant, loving elegy ever. Lightning striking itself.
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Another year with my beautiful wife
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Radio 5 saying the sports story of the day is the same bloke winning formula 1 again. Surely Tao GH is the sports story of the day, the month, the year.
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The son has died. John Coltrane was the Father, Albert Ayler the Holy Ghost and the great Pharaoh Sanders complete the trilogy of spiritual jazz giants. If the creator did indeed have a masterplan, then Pharaoh Sanders helped execute it. A master has passed.
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@threadneedleman
So shocked and sorry to hear that. George was one of the very best, as a tailor and as a man.
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I have a big announcement to make and a big favour to ask. Prompted by the deathly silence of lockdown, I am writing a memoir of my life as a lover of live music.
Check it out and pledge for your copy here:
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Remember my mum and dad arguing about Dr Zhivago, he thought it undermined the Soviet Union, she thought Omar Sharif was gorgeous.
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One of my oldest friends finally made it up to the sky. He’s been off on tour, so we haven’t met for ages. Always great to see this man.
@garyjkemp
@laurenalexiskemp
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@PaulWal31757774
I don't think Stanley was a flawed man. He lived the life he loved and was so loved in return. He was the most sublime man I ever met.
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@1968Tv
Still the most joyous, carefree, wayward, wonderful player I have ever seen. I love that man.
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Slovenia's defending tonight the best thing I've seen in this competition.
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Always missed, never forgotten.
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Spoke yesterday to Tao's dad. Can only imagine how they feel today. Hackney lad made us all proud.
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First sunset in our new home
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@TheMumper
My mum worked on the broken biscuit counter at Woolworths. Made me very popular. (later on she was on the nick and mix)
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@gillespeterson
@BBC6Music
Expansions Lonnie Liston Smith at Crackers. My jazz journey started at that moment.
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First copies of the book arrived, feeling rather proud. London Made Us.
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Been searching most of my adult life for the perfect pair of sandals, like I wore as a small boy. Found these in Madrid and they are pretty close - and yes I am wearing socks.
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Neil Young moon - see you Sunday 9am
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Another year…
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Thanks to everybody who has pledged to buy a copy of LIVE. We’ve now added a new live event to be held later in the year including a Q&A, reading and live music. If you want to go to this, or if you just want to buy the book go the Unbound website.
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Atmosphere at Loftus Road sat was like a throwback to very good old days. Don't ever want to leave our cramped, crowded tin hut of a home.
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found this lurking in the memory
Here’s a short film which was played at the ceremony – featuring none other than Rod Stewart, Gary Kemp and Gilbert & George. via
@FacebookWatch
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Little, impoverished Cuba has sent more medical staff to west Africa to help with Ebola than any other nation. Internationalism in action.
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Slowly progressing - walls being rebuilt, brackets put up to support the ceiling
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A monument to one of my heroes…
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@paulfinney1969
Don, you have broken my heart yet again. For a boy from the White City you are an eloquent man my friend. And your friend Stanley was the greatest of them all. We will never see his like again.
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A wonderful night on the south bank celebrating the peerless music of Marvin Gaye. So many great musicians on stage, so many friends in the audience. Love my city. Many thanks to Tomorrow’s Warriors
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Missing my favourite breakfast
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Sad to be leaving but happy to be on air on Saturday
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@gringolito
Why do you think I'm mockney? Born and bred, council estate raised, lived here all my life. What's mock?
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Happy New Year
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@nikidoog2
@RonnieLaneFans
@SlimChanceMusic
@TheMumper
@CrowleyOnAir
@roomforravers
England's greatest ever melodist. Breaks your heart with a chord or two.
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Happy Christmas
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Don’t forget cover to cover and funky Friday today.
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@Culture_Crit
@clashboy23
Replacing something authentic with something utterly fake, can only be a retrograde step. Disneyland architecture.
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@LoftforWords
I work until 1pm on a Saturday, might only see the second half of almost all our games this season. 56 seasons watching this mob, now Sky effectively stop me.
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@LoftforWords
I found myself longing nostalgically for Gus Caesar and Zesh Rehman. That might be the worst QPR 11 I have witnessed in 55 years. But who do I blame?
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Really shocked and saddened to hear about the death of Russel Norman; lovely man, great restaurateur, splendid company. We are all poorer.
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We have simple roller blinds in the bedrooms- voile to soften but allow light and black out for nighttime - though I imagine looking at the city twinkling asleep is pretty magical
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Going to miss this place
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All my life I have worn two tribal colours with pride. One blue and white hoops, the other deepest red. It hasn't been a good week. Chinsup.
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View through to the kitchen
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The city at night
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Furniture in. Apart from the second hand table, all this stuff has come from our old house. It’s 30 years of collecting and Christina’s brilliant eye.
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@RobertKwolek
Totally wrong. Many post war estates, especially in Camden are brilliant, proper communities, we should be building places like that now rather than 'luxury apartments."
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Socks and scandals. Another outing for the s&s combo. 'Can you dig it?’ (Warriors come out to play)
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Buenos Aires one of the most fascinating places I've ever been. Would love to go again tonight. But it takes two to tangle so chapeau to France too
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@CaleGallagher
If we're doing only white blokes in rock bands, Rod at the Faces is above all of those.
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Slept in a boat marooned atop the southbank. Surreal and special, like being swallowed by my city, woke to distant rave and Big Ben chimes.
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@HRHJaffeJoffer
It's QPR, we are a broken old rollercoaster. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. It's why we go to the funfair.
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@Modernistics
Ooh La La is a neckerchief anthem. The whole album is a ramshackle masterpiece.
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Coming out March 5th
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@samuelgallaghe2
@RobertElms
British museum,Ronnie Scotts, QPR,National Theatre,Regents Park,Hampstead Heath,Tate Modern,Soho,Chinatown,Brixton market,Saville Row,Waterloo sunset,Colombia Road, Ocakbasi, Teppanyaki, Black cabs, white stucco, Tower Bridge
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