Category Archives: obituary

Andrew Fletcher: 1961-2022

Posted on May 27, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Yesterday afternoon, I was doing my usual scanning of the Steve Hoffman Music Forums to see what was happening in music after I had already written a lunchtime post, and I saw that Andrew Fletcher of Depeche Mode had died … Continue reading →

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Jordan Mooney [Pamela Rooke]: 1956-2022

Posted on April 5, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Yesterday after posting, I read the sad news that Punk style icon Jordan Mooney [a.k.a. Pamela Rooke] had succumbed to a rare bile duct cancer on Sunday evening. The story of her entering into the orbit of Vivienne Westwood and … Continue reading →

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Billy MacKenzie Remixed [part 7]

Posted on February 1, 2022 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] 2003 brought a shake up to the already established Billy MacKenzie canon of posthumous releases. Nude records had cone out of business at the time, giving One Little Indian some of their catalog titles. In 2003, … Continue reading →

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Billy MacKenzie: The Posthumous Era [part 4]

Posted on January 26, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Part 4: The Aftermath… Billy’s mother Lily had died the previous summer and the already mercurial singer was capable of wild mood swings as his attitude to his singing career had already showed. On January 22nd, 1997, he went into … Continue reading →

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Billy MacKenzie Has Been Gone For 25 Years Now… [part 1]

Posted on January 22, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Part 1: My STUPID YEARS… Where does the time go? It feels like he just died last month. I can remember the awful pit in my stomach when I discovered, somehow, on the internet [which in 1997, I only had … Continue reading →

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Steve Bronski: 1960-2021

Posted on December 10, 2021 by postpunkmonk

There was another significant death in this immediate period that came through as I was already writing the last PPM obituary. I can’t pretend that I have a lot of Bronski Beat in the Record Cell; my esteem is for … Continue reading →

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Robbie Shakespeare: 1953-2021

Posted on December 9, 2021 by postpunkmonk

I was getting ready for slumber last night when I was checking the news before bed [a bad idea, I know] when I saw that we’d just lost bassist extraordinaire Robbie Shakespeare at a depressingly young 68 years of age. … Continue reading →

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