Category Archives: obituary

Shane MacGowan: 1957-2023

Posted on December 5, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Last week we had another significant death in the Post-Punk Canon that I’m catching up on. I hadn’t planned on writing about his death as I have only a handful of his releases in the Record Cell, but it can … Continue reading →

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Geordie Walker: 1958 – 2023

Posted on November 29, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Last Sunday I began to see the news trickle out that Geordie Walker, the guitarist of genre-unto-themselves Killing Joke had tragically died of a stroke in his home of Prague. We now know that he had the stroke two days … Continue reading →

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Sinéad O’Connor: 1966-2023

Posted on July 31, 2023 by postpunkmonk

I first encountered Sinéad O’Connor as the backing singer in a World Party video on 120 Minutes in early 1987. She was a young woman with a shaven head, dancing in a pixilated manner to the song she was singing … Continue reading →

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Seymour Stein: 1942-2023

Posted on April 3, 2023 by postpunkmonk

I was all set up today to write about Ryuichi Sakamoto when last night fate threw us a curve ball with news of the death the Seymour Stein. There aren’t too many label heads who were more important to the … Continue reading →

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: 1952-2023

Posted on April 3, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Yesterday, the back channels at PPM were abuzz with the sad news; crucial composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto’s death had been announced yesterday, having actually occurred the prior Tuesday. Of course, his throat cancer diagnosis in 2014 was the precursor … Continue reading →

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Tom Verlaine: 1949-2023

Posted on January 29, 2023 by postpunkmonk

There was another sad loss yesterday with the news that the great Tom Verlaine had died. I was late to the game with Verlaine. He was a reputation it took me a few years to finally hear. I knew Television … Continue reading →

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Yukihiro Takahashi: 1952-2023

Posted on January 16, 2023 by postpunkmonk

We were blindsided by more sad news on Friday night. Yukihiro Takahashi, the drummer and vocalist of Yellow Magic Orchestra dies at the age of 70, after a two years of dealing with brain cancer. I was aghast to note … Continue reading →

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