Mr Margaret Scratcher

Category: In Memoriam

  • Gilles Peterson – Donald Byrd Tributes

    Part 1 – The Acoustic Years:

    http://soundcloud.com/gillespeterson/donald-byrd-tribute-mix-part-1

    Donald Byrd Tribute Mix // Part 2 – The Electric Years:

    https://soundcloud.com/gillespeterson/donald-byrd-tribute-mix-the

  • Donald Byrd RIP

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJbfKMASdU8

    Another great loss from the world of music..

  • RIP Terry Nutkins

    Terence Paul Nutkins (12 August 1946 – 6 September 2012)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nutkins

    So… That’s another part of my childhood gone. Far too young at 66.

    Terry inspired a generation of kids to think and care about the world around us through his amazing work on various shows like Animal Magic and The Really Wild Show.

    Thoughts are with his friends and family.

    I did a quick search of youtube for a suitable vid to post, but couldn’t really find anything. So here’s this, which probably isn’t suitable (I’ve had this blog post waiting to be published for about 2 hours now, while I decided whether to post it or not), but if Terry was anything like his on screen presenter persona in real life I reckon he’d have had a chuckle at this: