Post by Pink Betty on Jul 5, 2007 10:01:29 GMT
George Melly has died....
George Melly, a flamboyant, gravel-voiced jazz singer, critic and raconteur, died Thursday, his wife said. He was 80 years old.
Though suffering from lung cancer and dementia, Melly continued performing nearly until the end. He gave his last concert on June 10. He died at home in London, Diana Melly said.
Melly was noted for loud suits, louder ties and the image he cultivated of a hard-drinking throwback to the jazz age.
After his navy service in World War II, Melly relished the life of a peripatetic musician. "Hard drinking and squalid digs, but absolutely no regrets," he once recalled.
He gave up the musician's life in 1962 to concentrate on writing about surrealist art and working as a music and theater critic.
And, had he been more computer literate, Melly would have been a welcome member of thee Cyber Lounge....he would have made a fine Pink Melly said a spokesperson for the well known Madrigal Cyber Lounge
George Melly, a flamboyant, gravel-voiced jazz singer, critic and raconteur, died Thursday, his wife said. He was 80 years old.
Though suffering from lung cancer and dementia, Melly continued performing nearly until the end. He gave his last concert on June 10. He died at home in London, Diana Melly said.
Melly was noted for loud suits, louder ties and the image he cultivated of a hard-drinking throwback to the jazz age.
After his navy service in World War II, Melly relished the life of a peripatetic musician. "Hard drinking and squalid digs, but absolutely no regrets," he once recalled.
He gave up the musician's life in 1962 to concentrate on writing about surrealist art and working as a music and theater critic.
And, had he been more computer literate, Melly would have been a welcome member of thee Cyber Lounge....he would have made a fine Pink Melly said a spokesperson for the well known Madrigal Cyber Lounge
