RIP Thread - March

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It’s perfect. I can’t imagine how he feels but through these words he’s made me understand as closely as I ever could.

‘Get out of that damn room’ is unbelievablely heartfelt.
I'm a bit of a big softy, but by god that, as you say, was heartfelt, simple yet enduring and emotionally powerful. Total respect and sympathy to all those concerned and affected by his death.
 
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Such a shame about the NME but it's been crap for a good few years, so it was inevitable.

Been **** since the 90s, although I'm sure someone older than me will say it's been **** since the 80s and so on.
 
It's not online only yet, the final print version is out this Friday...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43318898

thanks, i thought that had already happened. i think i mixed it up with the print edition becoming free. a pity, although in the days i used to read it, it was completely up its own bottom* and some of its writers, including some now more generally famous, were much the same.

* rephrased to respect the purpose of the thread.
 
Been **** since the 90s, although I'm sure someone older than me will say it's been **** since the 80s and so on.

Iit started being **** in the early 70s when people like Chris Welch thought their views and wit were what readers wanted to hear rather than what the music they were critiquing was like.
 
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Sir John Sulston, scientist who led DNA discovery, dies

Sir John Sulston, the Nobel-prize winning scientist who led efforts to sequence the human genome, has died aged 75.
 
Luigi Taveri - 3 times 125cc motorcycle road racing world champion - died aged 88. Also the only racer ever to score world championship points in 50cc, 125cc, 250cc, 350cc, 500cc and as a sidecar passenger. Started his Grand Prix career in 1954 (even before I was born). I met him when he took part in a classic racing event in 1998 - wonderful guy. RIP.