Reply With QuoteMaxi Jazz, 65. What a band Faithless were. Never saw a bad gig of theirs. Sad days
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Terry definitive account.
The Specials. Terry. This is what happened.
We had it all planned out. Make the album we were going to do in 2020 – a reggae album.
Record in Los Angeles in November. We had the studio booked, flights paid for, accommodation sorted. Roger Rivas from The Agrolites was going to co-produce. Shepard Fairey was going to do the cover. Lynval, still recovering from his spinal surgery earlier in the year, was over in the UK and raring to go. Terry had the framework for 8 tunes. Confidence was high. We were set to meet up with Nikolaj and make magic. This was in September. Terry e-mails everyone and says he’s in bed with a stomach bug and can’t do the first week of pre-production sessions. No big deal, we can knock everything back a week. We’re not due to fly out until November 4th. The next week, Terry is no better and is in hospital. There’s not much we can do except wait for him to get better. Sunday October 2nd and I get a phone call from Manager Steve.
And everything turns to ****.
Terry’s illness is a lot worse than we thought.
He has been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas which has spread to his liver.
This is serious. Like life-threatening serious.
He has developed diabetes due to his pancreas being attacked. This has to be treated first, then it’s a regime of chemotherapy.
There is nothing anyone can do. Everything is put on hold.
Terry is emphatic that no-one be told about this. If anyone asks, he’s managing his diabetes.
The chemo treatment starts favourably but it seems that it would be March 2023 at the earliest before we’d be in any position to work. He is in and out of hospital to stabilise the diabetes issue and also to manage pain.
It then goes quiet.
Beginning of December and reports are not good. Terry has lost a lot of weight and is very frail. His friend Ian Broudie visits and phones Manager Steve. He fears that Terry is slipping away.
15th December and Manager Steve drives up to London to visit. He calls me on his return journey and says things are not looking promising. Terry is dying. The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time. I thought it would be best for me to go and visit but Lindy, his wife, advises against it. She has held her phone to Terry’s ear so that his sisters and Lynval can say their goodbyes. She suggests I do the same. So, I did. It was tough.
Terry died around half past 5 the next evening, Sunday 18th December.
The world has lost a unique voice and I have lost a good friend.
Horace.
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Maxi Jazz, 65. What a band Faithless were. Never saw a bad gig of theirs. Sad days
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ANother sad piece of news in what has been a sad week for deaths of music people. I realised he was older than the rest of the group, but hadn't realised he was 65.Originally Posted by DondyDan
Martin Duffy of Felt/Primal Scream died this week too.
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I read someone write the other day that he is not one of the greats as the quality of the opposition he faced was not good enough.
RIP
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Does my memory serve me right in that he came on to the pitch at Pittodrie during the group stages of the Under 16 WC in 1989 ? Brazil played their group games there.
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That was obviously read by one of my boys and cast up to me in a discussion recently after Messi finally won a world cup.
I of course told him to stop havering.
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The 1970 World Cup was my first real memory of international football.
Gerd Muller was obviously my favourite but Pele was sublime.
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I googled it and certainly pictures of him in Aberdeen, but I can't remember him at the games and I was at them, but he may well have. I'm sure someone with a better memory will know.
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