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John McAfee’s suicide reports raise disbelief, spark conspiracy theories

John McAfee’s candle may have burned out, but his legacy will live on. Tributes for the tech savant continue to flow in after his passing.
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Often a figure of ridicule within the crypto community thanks to his outlandish predictions as well as being a larger-than-life personality, John McAfee has ceased to be in the spotlight of the crypto community. However, following his alleged “suicide” that occurred in a Spanish prison cell on June 23, tributes have been flowing en masse for the tech savant, who was also an early proponent of digital currencies — especially Bitcoin (BTC) and later Monero (XMR).
 
Not necessarily a "famous" person but certainly someone who lived a very full life and left everything on the field.

‘A spectacular person’: Sandra Pankhurst, subject of The Trauma Cleaner, dies in Melbourne​

‘Extraordinary life’ included working as a cleaner after homicides and suicides, a drag queen, sex worker and funeral director
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Sandra Pankhurst, the subject of Sarah Krasnostein’s book The Trauma Cleaner, which won the Victorian Prize for Literature in 2018, has died in Melbourne. Photograph: Stewart Chambers

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Melbourne woman Sandra Pankhurst, the subject of the award-winning book The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein, has died.
Pankhurst suffered from a serious pulmonary condition and was believed to be in her late 60s but the exact cause of her death and precise age were unknown.

A lawyer acting on behalf of the family confirmed her death late on Thursday night.
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“She passed away after an extraordinary life with her family around her and her dog Moet,” Matisse Mitelman said. “The relationship started as a lawyer and client but it developed into a much broader and more diffuse friendship. She’s a spectacular and incredibly empathetic person.”

Pankhurst became something of a celebrity after Krasnostein’s book on her life became a bestseller in 2018. It won multiple awards including the Victorian prize for literature and the Douglas Stewart prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary awards for non-fiction.

Pankhurst went on to become a motivational speaker while continuing to run her successful business STC Services, which specialised in cleaning premises after homicides and suicides and clearing the homes of hoarders and illegal methamphetamine manufacturers.

In media interviews, she was extraordinarily candid about her abusive childhood, her previous work as a drag queen, sex worker and funeral director, and transitioning from Peter to Sandra in the 1980s.

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‘A spectacular person’: Sandra Pankhurst, subject of The Trauma Cleaner, dies in Melbourne

‘Extraordinary life’ included working as a cleaner after homicides and suicides, a drag queen, sex worker and funeral director
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Earlier story on Sandra Pankhurst and the world of hoarders.

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‘I started dry retching’: the harrowing world of a trauma cleaner

Sarah Krasnostein visited more than 20 ‘caves of filth’ while profiling Sandra Pankhurst. She found stories of loneliness and violence – and an incredible woman
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It's a shame we won't hear this story.
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The Trauma Cleaner: Sandra Pankhurst

This event has been cancelled and those who booked tickets will receive a separate communication from us.
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Mike Nesmith from the 1960's group dies aged 78, I don't know he would be classed as an imported person, but the baby boomers will remember him fondly and he had a bit to do with founding MTV.
His mother could probably be classed as important, she invented liquid paper, always a good trivia question.

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Michael Nesmith, the Monkee for all seasons, dead at 78

A singer-songwriter, author, actor-director and entrepreneur, whose videos gave way to MTV, has died shortly after concluding a farewell tour.
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sptrawler said:
Mike Nesmith from the 1960's group dies aged 78, I don't know he would be classed as an imported person, but the baby boomers will remember him fondly and he had a bit to do with founding MTV.
His mother could probably be classed as important, she invented liquid paper, always a good trivia question.

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Michael Nesmith, the Monkee for all seasons, dead at 78

A singer-songwriter, author, actor-director and entrepreneur, whose videos gave way to MTV, has died shortly after concluding a farewell tour.
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The unmentioned group was The Monkees, America's answer to the Beatles.

They put out some catchy tunes in their day.

 
I wouldn't go as far as to say important, but his "bat out of hell' album was good, his AFL grand final appearance not so good.
Passed away today aged 74.
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Rock superstar Meat Loaf dies aged 74

Meat Loaf, the rock superstar loved by millions for his Bat Out of Hell album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as Paradise by the Dashboard Light and Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, has died aged 74.
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sptrawler said:
I wouldn't go as far as to say important, but his "bat out of hell' album was good, his AFL grand final appearance not so good.
Passed away today aged 74.
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Rock superstar Meat Loaf dies aged 74

Meat Loaf, the rock superstar loved by millions for his Bat Out of Hell album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as Paradise by the Dashboard Light and Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, has died aged 74.
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Wouldn't call myself a fan, but, wow, that's big. Everyone else on this page, kinda meh wotevs - everyone has their time, but THE Meat Loaf?! Such an icon. Not immortal?
 
Meat Loaf was brilliant. His performances brought Jim Steinmans musical stories to life like an Aladans lamp.
Great tribute to his work in The Guardian.

Meat Loaf was a spellbinding performer who fused sincerity with showmanship​

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The hard-rock icon injected even the most absurd songs with deeply felt emotion and formed the perfect musical partnership with Jim Steinman
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‘A powerhouse voice that worked with histrionic hard rock’ … Meat Loaf performing in Georgia, 12 April 1978. Photograph: Rick Diamond/Getty Images
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Whatever ridiculous extremes his music went to, there was something realistic and relatable about the emotions at the centre of his songs: millions of people didn’t go out and buy Bat Out of Hell in order to snigger at it; they bought it because the saga of the teenage romancers turned warring couple on Paradise By the Dashboard Light or All Revved Up With No Place to Go’s depiction of adolescent self-aggrandising and yearning for escape rang true. You could believe it even when what you were listening to beggared belief, and that was down to Meat Loaf. With the greatest respect to Bonnie Tyler – whose versions of Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero are masterpieces of take-no-prisoners emoting – and indeed Cher, whose bravura performance on Dead Ringer for Love is a thing of wonder, absolutely no one could sell a Steinman song the way Meat Loaf did.

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Ridiculous and thrilling … Meat Loaf and Karla DeVito performing in Georgia. Photograph: Rick Diamond/Getty Images

The simple truth is that no one was interested in Bat Out of Hell until they saw Meat Loaf performing its songs. Its first success came in Australia and the UK when a live video of the title track was shown on TV. The record label that released it, Epic, hated the album – it had been signed by one of their minor subsidiary labels, Cleveland International – and declined to promote it properly until someone came up with the idea of getting Meat Loaf to perform live at the label’s sales convention; steady touring and an appearance on Saturday Night Live saw to the rest. When Meat Loaf and band actually turned up to play on BBC2’s Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978, their appearance caused a sensation.
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Meat Loaf was a spellbinding performer who fused sincerity with showmanship

The hard-rock icon injected even the most absurd songs with deeply felt emotion and formed the perfect musical partnership with Jim Steinman
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Glen Wheatley, absolute legend of Australian music, has passed away aged 74.
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Australian Music Industry Legend Glenn Wheatley Has Died At Age 74

Glenn Wheatley, the former bass player for the Masters Apprentices and who went on to direct the careers of Little River Band and John Farnham and run a media empire, has died at the age of 74.
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From the article:
Glenn Wheatley, the former bass player for the Masters Apprentices and who went on to direct the careers of Little River Band and John Farnham and run a media empire, has died at the age of 74.

Noise11 understands that Glenn contracted Covid over the Christmas period and had been in ICU.

Glenn joined The Masters Apprentices in 1968 and played on two of their best-known songs ‘Turn Up Your Radio’ and ‘Because I Love You’.

Later as manager of Little River Band, Glenn negotiated a deal with Capitol Records in Los Angeles that made the band one of the biggest rock groups in the world in the late 70s.
He then took over the career of John Farnham who had been one of Australia’s biggest pop acts of the 1960s but was forgotten in the 1970s. Under Glenn’s guidance, Farnham made his comeback with the album ‘Uncovered’ (1980) produced by LRB’s Graeham Goble who also wrote most of the songs on the album, with the exception of The Beatles’ ‘Help’.
Wheatley became involved with media in 1980 as a co-founder of Melbourne rock radio station EON-FM. More recently he purchased radio stations on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. In 2017 he took over Sydney’s 2CH, only recently selling the station.

On a personal note, Glenn was a good friend and great supporter of Noise11. To his wife Gaynor, son Tim and the family, your loss will be felt right across the world today. Glenn was a great man.
 
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Glen Wheatley, absolute legend of Australian music, has passed away aged 74.
www.noise11.com

Australian Music Industry Legend Glenn Wheatley Has Died At Age 74

Glenn Wheatley, the former bass player for the Masters Apprentices and who went on to direct the careers of Little River Band and John Farnham and run a media empire, has died at the age of 74.
www.noise11.com www.noise11.com
From the article: 8pm
Glenn Wheatley, the former bass player for the Masters Apprentices and who went on to direct the careers of Little River Band and John Farnham and run a media empire, has died at the age of 74.

Noise11 understands that Glenn contracted Covid over the Christmas period and had been in ICU.

Glenn joined The Masters Apprentices in 1968 and played on two of their best-known songs ‘Turn Up Your Radio’ and ‘Because I Love You’.

Later as manager of Little River Band, Glenn negotiated a deal with Capitol Records in Los Angeles that made the band one of the biggest rock groups in the world in the late 70s.
He then took over the career of John Farnham who had been one of Australia’s biggest pop acts of the 1960s but was forgotten in the 1970s. Under Glenn’s guidance, Farnham made his comeback with the album ‘Uncovered’ (1980) produced by LRB’s Graeham Goble who also wrote most of the songs on the album, with the exception of The Beatles’ ‘Help’.
Wheatley became involved with media in 1980 as a co-founder of Melbourne rock radio station EON-FM. More recently he purchased radio stations on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. In 2017 he took over Sydney’s 2CH, only recently selling the station.

On a personal note, Glenn was a good friend and great supporter of Noise11. To his wife Gaynor, son Tim and the family, your loss will be felt right across the world today. Glenn was a great man.
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Heard Glen Shorrock talk.He sounded upset. His friends are shocked. He was 74 but pretty healthy. Covid is a prick.
 
Not exactly a famous person, but a famous identity among fisher persons.
Alvey reels, an Australian icon amoung fishing reels, is to close its doors and cease production.
IT HAS been the fisherman’s friend for more than a century, but the classic Alvey reel is soon set to be a collectors item.
The 102-year-old company this week announced it was shutting down its factory with only a limited amount of time before the warehouse would be emptied of stock.

Alvey spokesman Con Athans said while the company is currently sitting on significant supplies “there will be a structured sell down of all stock.
All Alvey authorised retailers can sell product while stocks last but spare parts can only be purchased from Alvey online or preferably from outlets Tackle Land Sandgate, Charlton’s Fishing Redbank or Gardiner Fisheries Rainbow Beach.

The Carole Park firm, founded by Charles Alvey in 1920, has told customers that manufacturing is no longer sustainable due to “drastic cost increases and supply chain logistics issues.”
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I remember my grandfather buying me a brand new bakelite alvey reel when I was about 8.
Wish i still had it, will become a collectors item.
I suspect it won't be the last company that ceases production, not from lack of demand, but prohibitive costs of supply.
Hate to thing what a top class Shimano reel will set me back in the near future.
Mick
 
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