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There is a reason why this is sad - Frank Kelly, who played Father Jack Hackett so brilliantly in 'Father Ted', died on 28-02-16, eighteen years to the day that Dermot Morgan, who played Ted, died, way too early at 45. At Frank Kelly's funeral, his son said that he liked the idea of Father Jack getting to the Pearly Gates, and telling Saint Peter to "Feck off".
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Factory Records. A legendary British label, home of Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, and The Happy Mondays, amongst others. A company run by great people, with great ideas, but sadly, no business acumen whatsoever. Their packaging was top-notch, every time, beautiful to the point that writing the band's name and the song title on it would ruin it. So they quite often didn't. One of their bands, The Stockholm Monsters, released a single which came in nine, let me repeat, nine different sleeves, despite hardly selling anything previously. The album, 'The Return Of The Durutti Column' originally came in a sandpaper sleeve so that it would damage other records it was kept with - and the sand would also find it's way on to your new album... Factory Records. Don't bother looking for them; they're not there any more...
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Many, many years ago, when it were all fields around here, etc., a new toy came out in the UK. It had been on sale in other parts of Europe for several years, but here, it was new. We called them 'Play People', and they were possibly the first iteration of what we now call 'action figures'. My kid brother had loads - mostly road...
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