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originalminority said:
Lucky to have seen The Smiths at Hull Uni, RIP.
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Part of my youth has just died. RIP Andy Rourke.
Was also at the Hull Uni gig - the first of many times that I was lucky enough to see them play live. Morrissey and Johnny Marrr always got the plaudits but, to me, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce were just as integral to the band.
Sad day. RIP Andy Rourke
 
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Shropshire Tiger said:
Part of my youth has just died. RIP Andy Rourke.
Was also at the Hull Uni gig - the first of many times that I was lucky enough to see them play live. Morrissey and Johnny Marrr always got the plaudits but, to me, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce were just as integral to the band.
Sad day. RIP Andy Rourke
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I thought The Smiths had groove to them, a bounce, just something that made the songs drive.

I guess it was him and Johnny Marr listening to the bass lines of Bernard Edward from Chic.
 
They were a band which some how at the time passed me by .It was only later that I got into them
And realised how talented the group were .
I really did enjoy getting into their back catalogue.
As said sad day and no age to go .I am in Spain at the minute so I know what will be on my playlist today by the pool.
 
Ernie Shackleton said:
Brilliant novelist but my favourite book of his was the memoir 'Experience'.


An astonishing piece of autobiography.



RIP to MA and to cousin Lucy.
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There’s quotes and anecdotes all over tonight, but I liked this one:
"Until you're 45 or so, you still think you're going to live forever. You look in the mirror and think, 'Well, most people die, but in your case... clever you. Lucky you!' And then, you pass 60, and you think, Hang on, this'll end in tears.' But ageing isn't the steady accumulation of wisdom or knowledge. It's constantly improvising to meet new circumstances. We're like children all our lives, because every 10 years we have to acquaint ourselves with a new set of rules. Being 50 is not at all like being 30; you are always feeling your way.

And you get a bit wiser as you get older, but you don't get physically braver. As a child, I expected that. As a grown-up, I was shocked to see it hadn't happened."
 
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at least 9 killed in stampede at football match in san salvador, capital of el salvador.
 
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