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#2 2006-05-26 06:11:28
- Daniele
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Re: Goodbye, Desmond Dekker
"You can get it if you really want...."
RIP Desmond.
#3 2006-05-26 07:41:34
- Chris_H
- Ivy Original
- From: Watford
- Posts: 1654
Re: Goodbye, Desmond Dekker
Shame........I loved his 'ska version' of Israelites
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#4 2006-05-26 08:35:24
- Get Smart
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Re: Goodbye, Desmond Dekker
RIP brother. A man with great style, and some good tunes.
#5 2006-05-26 09:22:42
- Miles Away
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- Posts: 1180
Re: Goodbye, Desmond Dekker
I ought to say something...
'Mount Zion'...
'Honour your Mother and Father'...
Nope, Desmond beat me to it.
Everybody knows the story of how he spearheaded the shorter-than-short trouser break in London back in the '60's so I won't repeat it.
Sad day.
Miles.
" ... Ubi bene, ibi patria, which being roughly translated means, 'Wherever there's a handout, that's for me, man.' "
Alistair Cooke. 1968.
#6 2006-06-01 06:32:45
- Horace
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Re: Goodbye, Desmond Dekker
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.