Goodbye Adrian Anthony, and God bless you

[Burney]

Of all the celebrity deaths in 2016, this is the only one to really touch me as I will miss his work terribly.

Other than the baboon bothering, obvs. Mind you, baboons are nasty aggressive búggers, and baboon shít is the worst thing to get on your shoe.

I am full of admiration for his insistence that his Savile Row suits were all lined with scarves from Hermes. Now that is style.

I wonder if The Wolseley will set up his usual table the way they did for Lucien Freud?

Come now. He was no Terry Wogan.

[SWv2]

The apparent speed of his demise was a little surprising but having read parts of his piece yesterday it turns out chemo had totally failed, totally f**ked from that point as I am aware from family history.

Condolences to his family of course but in general I don’t subscribe to huge outpourings of grief for celebrities from mere ordinary people. The passing of Bowie earlier this year almost turned into a sideshow as people compared their levels of grief with each other.

[Sir C]

Come now. He was no Terry Wogan.

Colonel Now wasn't Terry Wogan, I concur.

Dear old Terry goes into the bin with Prince and Bowie. I admired them greatly for their previous work, but I was never going to be touched by anything new they did.

Adrian Anthony was still churning it out every week.

Árse and balls, the restaurant review was the first thing I read in the ST! For years and years.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Colonel Now wasn't Terry Wogan, I concur.

Dear old Terry goes into the bin with Prince and Bowie. I admired them greatly for their previous work, but I was never going to be touched by anything new they did.

Adrian Anthony was still churning it out every week.

Árse and balls, the restaurant review was the first thing I read in the ST! For years and years.

Oh. You've made the point for me.

Exactly. I haven't listened to a Bowie song later than Ashes to Ashes (c.1980/1?) when AA Gill was my first reading every Sunday. Huge difference.