| re: R&R Hall of Fame for Jim and Meat Loaf | |
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Jacqueline 03:47 pm UTC 03/02/08 |
| In reply to: | R&R Hall of Fame for Jim and Meat Loaf - junior 03:09 am UTC 02/29/08 |
| I really would like to figure out how we can do this. Maybe we can enlist the help of radio stations around the country and start and online petition. > I just recently learned of the passing of a friend of > mine, > Mike Smith (of the Dave Clark 5); one of the British > Invasion Bands. Mike was 64 years old. > > Mike suffered from a freak accident 4 years ago and was > left tetraplegic and was released from the hospital about > a month ago. (Mike had broken his neck and needed 24 hour > nursing care). During his stay, Paul Shaffer was > instrumental in having a benefit for him in N.Y. > After Mike was released from the hospital last month, > Steve Van Zandt, Max Weinberg and the man himself (Bruce > Springstein) had Mike transported to their concert in > London. Steve was very involved in making this happen. > > Mike and his wife had every intention of being present at > the R&R Hall Awards and was process of making arrangements > to transport Mike, just 2 weeks away. > > For those of you who are unaware, the Dave Clark 5 knocked > the Beatles out of their No. 1 position in the charts in > the U.K. back in the day. > > Attempts were made in the past for Jim and ML to be > inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame as J.D. mentioned this > in previous posts; perhaps we need to do this again to > make it happen. > > I'm not sure how to go about this, but we have a lot of > unique talent out there...let's just do it. > > Sorry for the length of this post, I just learned of this > and a little in shock.. | |
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