Earlier this week, the darkness doubled and the Cadillac pulled out of the graveyard as Television guitarist Richard Lloyd followed his bandmate Tom Verlaine into the afterlife.
I didn't think I'd find any lyrical tributes to Richard Lloyd, but then I remembered that The Damned wrote a song all about Television... it's not the most complimentary though, given that it was written after Verlaine and co. refused to let The Damned support them at a gig in the US...
Richard Lloyd you're here this night
You should have rode the golden stars
Still, immortality in song is worth celebrating whatever the antecedents. Which might explain why today's post also shines a light on this gentleman...
I will confess that I know very little about Tommy Walsh. He was a presenter on a well-known TV show I never watched and a bunch of lesser known TV shows I never watched either. He was a builder, but I'll try not to hold that against him. My brother was a builder, and ditto that.
Truth be told though that most of what I know about Tommy Walsh comes from Nigel Blackwell...
Back-to-back Cadfael
Ross Kemp on Watership Down
Are we living in the last days?
My life coach died in a car crash
Plummeted his mother into hopeless despair
She hangs about the laurel walk
I never know what to say to her
Have you seen Tommy Walsh’s Eco House?
Did Tommy ever build an Eco House? I'm presuming he must have.
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