RIP Freddie Starr

[broadsword]

Not  everyone's cup of tea, but for a while he was  a leading tv comic
also a very good singer....

[RailGooner]

Rest in peace - Freddie Starr.

Roam in peace - Hamsters!

[Newportnobby]

Bit of a 'marmite' comedian but I thought he was great. Truly anarchic at times and when he threw 'maggots' into an audience of 'celebs' and some went down Janet Brown's cleavage the look she gave him was worth watching.
His singing to background music that just got faster and faster could reduce me to tears of laughter

[Bob G]

Now we dont use tapes that gag will never work again, but you are right. I was crying at one point.

Anyone who ever owned a cassette tape player which mangled a cassette tape would also know what that sounded like - faster and faster and then - nothing as the tape broke!
As an aside, I am pleased that analogue LPs are still fashionable. I have my 1984 Rega Planar 2 with a glass turntable and will never sell it. My Hifi shop in Nottingham consider it one of the all time greats - like the Peco Jubilee.

Bob

[broadsword]

Bob G, you must have been a real hifi buff, ages ago  a workmate of mine bought Linn
stuff and wouldn't let anyone near it ,whenI checked the cost I couldn't blame him.

One thing ,is such equipment for classical music listening...?   I like Chasndave, Sir Rod Stewart,
Madness and The Who played through a £40 Argos system,would it make any difference ? 

[emjaybee]

Freddie Starr was one of the true greats, when comedy was funny, rather than just weird.

[Bob G]

Bob G, you must have been a real hifi buff, ages ago  a workmate of mine bought Linn
stuff and wouldn't let anyone near it ,whenI checked the cost I couldn't blame him.

One thing ,is such equipment for classical music listening...?   I like Chasndave, Sir Rod Stewart,
Madness and The Who played through a £40 Argos system,would it make any difference ?

I listen to the Who, Caravan, Curved Air, early Marillion, Genesis, Ian Dury, Floyd, Sade, Kate Bush, Gloria Estophan...all on LP

Just sold my Denon DRM700A 3 head cassette deck as it was taking up space, but I still use my Audiolab 8000A amp, Arcam Alpha+ CD player and Epos ES70 speakers.
The turntable is from 1984, the rest from the early 1990s.
The speakers are divine. Analogue is good

One day I will just stream everything through a Naim Unity Atom but at £2k I will keep my beer money for a while longer

Bob

[emjaybee]

Forgive me, but...



Surely?

[Bob G]

It's Broadsword's thread

He can go wherever he wants to go with it

[Gary Burcombe]

I have owned a Rega Planar 3 and an Audiolab 8000A since about 1983.  What a combination!  I, too, also love early Marillion and lot's more beside.  There is a warmth to analogue sound.  And the original post, I remember crying to Freddie when I was a child, one line in particular that I remember was "I couldn't sleep, so I went downstairs, found a sleeping pill, woke it up and took it".  RIP.

[broadsword]

I'll go with the flow,  unlike  Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic who went with the floe............

Please excuse excrutiating humour, I've been in the Crystal Palace since lunch time.


That's a Wetherspoons in Glasgow, where the beer is cheap.

[emjaybee]

It's Broadsword's thread

He can go wherever he wants to go with it

Fair 'nough, consider me butted out.

As you were.

[Bob G]

It's Broadsword's thread

He can go wherever he wants to go with it

Fair 'nough, consider me butted out.

As you were.

I wasn't being brutal. Just responding to developments...

[emjaybee]

It's Broadsword's thread

He can go wherever he wants to go with it

Fair 'nough, consider me butted out.

As you were.

I wasn't being brutal. Just responding to developments...

Fret not my friend, absolutely no offence was taken.

[emjaybee]

P.S. Just spent the last hour watching Freddie Starr clips on YouTube.

Nearly had the wife wetting herself.

Funny, funny man.