Tag Archives: cancer

Ryuichi Sakamoto Faces Second Cancer Diagnosis

Posted on January 21, 2021 by postpunkmonk

Terrible news today. I had gotten an email from commenter Tim on the subject of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 68th birthday on Sunday the 17th. As we’d just posted recently on the “Bamboo Houses”/”Bamboo Music” CD3, I demurred on a congratulatory post … Continue reading →

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Bernie Worrell Battling Stage-IV Cancer

Posted on June 20, 2016 by postpunkmonk

On Saturday I was poking around the Prince forum at Prince.org and saw saddening news: Bernie Worrell has stage-IV lung cancer and was just released from the hospital to come home. He also has prostate cancer and liver cancer as … Continue reading →

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Jo Dunne: 1969 – 2012

Posted on October 29, 2012 by postpunkmonk

I discovered that this morning while reading a link to the Birmingham Mail that Jo Dunne, the guitarist for We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It! has just died after a shockingly brief bout of cancer at the age … Continue reading →