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RIP Seething Wells

Died of Hodgkin's lymphoma this week.

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  • edited June 2009
    I used to read the NME (and Melody Maker) avidly from about 1987 through to 93ish - used to enjoy Swells - he was always the most outspoken and provocative writer. Didn't even realise he was sick.
  • RIP and all that, but didn't much care for him as a writer.

    From the Guardian:
    "But his political timing wasn't the greatest. On the day of the poll tax riots in Trafalgar Square he was boating in the Serpentine wondering what the smoke in the distance was."

    Typical media shouty lefty.
  • I'm sure i had a book with his and also atilla the stockbrokers stuff in it
  • Blimey, there's a name from the past - remember him well from the punk days.

    RIP
  • Takes me back that one.

    RIP.
  • RIP Swells and all that, but the point is true that them sort of shouty-lefties bathe in hypocrisy. I know Attila quite well and he reckons Jane Longhurst "must have done something to provoke" Graham Coutts (who was a mate of his). Quite what a woman could do to provoke a man to kill her and repeatedly rape her corpse I don't know. Some lefty Attila is. Tsk.
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