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Great people who died too young
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Simon Morgan
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Have to agree with Jeff Buckley (sensational voice, but was clearly a bit mental) and Paul Hunter (great snooker player)
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And his dad, Tim...
Billy MacKenzie...
Stuart Adamson...
Adrian Borland...
Pete de Freitas...
Colorblind James...
Joey, Dee Dee, AND Johnny.
Joey Ramone was the biggest loss of all for me -- the only person in the world I never knew whose grave I've made a pilgrimage to visit and pay my respects. RIP Jeff.
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From The Times February 16, 2008
Abdul Latif
Ebullient Newcastle restaurateur famed for incendiary curries
Abdul Latif was the British restaurateur who claimed to have served the hottest dish in the world. He called it “Curry Hell”. He served it in his diner in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and he promised that any customer who could finish his concoction could have it free.
Latif was not only the owner of the Rupali restaurant in Newcastle. He also claimed to have made the world's longest-distance curry delivery - from Newcastle to Sydney in 2004 - and he was also a regular feature in the adult comic Viz. Latif's entrepreneurialism - and indeed opportunism - was very well suited to Viz, a publication that has always shamelessly blurred the boundaries between news, editorial and advertising. Latif appeared in the adverts section of Viz or as a letter-writer, or in the classifieds with deliberate abandon. He almost became a conduit through which the comic satirised the press's parasitic and sometimes laughable reliance on advertisers.
One of six children and a native of Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), Abdul Latif was born in 1954 and came to Britain in 1969. He initially migrated to Manchester but, after a racist incident, moved to Newcastle. He worked with a relative in Whitley Bay before opening his Rupali establishment in 1977. Twenty years later, having consolidated his business, he unleashed his Curry Hell Challenge: a fearsome vindaloo combination. It is said that only one person in 50 can finish the plate.
An engaging, much-loved character and a charity campaigner, Latif was in the Good Food Guide for six years running. The MP Lembit Öpik was the recipient of the curry that Latif sent to Australia as part of the Guinness World Records.
In 2003 Latif offered free meals for five years to all British servicemen serving in Iraq. He also offered free curries for life to the rugby player Jonny Wilkinson and to Graeme Souness, former manager of the Newcastle United football team. In 2003 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts for his “efforts to make a difference in society”.
Latif claimed that his restaurant struggled after the 9/11 attacks, and four years ago he passed his restaurant to one of his sons after the business had failed to pay a VAT bill.
Abdul Latif was a Liberal Democrat supporter, and his favourite food was fish and chips.
He is survived by his wife, Neawarun, their four daughters and two sons.
Abdul Latif, restaurateur, was born in December 15, 1954. He died of a heart attack on January 27, 2008, aged 53
Abdul Latif
Ebullient Newcastle restaurateur famed for incendiary curries
Abdul Latif was the British restaurateur who claimed to have served the hottest dish in the world. He called it “Curry Hell”. He served it in his diner in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and he promised that any customer who could finish his concoction could have it free.
Latif was not only the owner of the Rupali restaurant in Newcastle. He also claimed to have made the world's longest-distance curry delivery - from Newcastle to Sydney in 2004 - and he was also a regular feature in the adult comic Viz. Latif's entrepreneurialism - and indeed opportunism - was very well suited to Viz, a publication that has always shamelessly blurred the boundaries between news, editorial and advertising. Latif appeared in the adverts section of Viz or as a letter-writer, or in the classifieds with deliberate abandon. He almost became a conduit through which the comic satirised the press's parasitic and sometimes laughable reliance on advertisers.
One of six children and a native of Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), Abdul Latif was born in 1954 and came to Britain in 1969. He initially migrated to Manchester but, after a racist incident, moved to Newcastle. He worked with a relative in Whitley Bay before opening his Rupali establishment in 1977. Twenty years later, having consolidated his business, he unleashed his Curry Hell Challenge: a fearsome vindaloo combination. It is said that only one person in 50 can finish the plate.
An engaging, much-loved character and a charity campaigner, Latif was in the Good Food Guide for six years running. The MP Lembit Öpik was the recipient of the curry that Latif sent to Australia as part of the Guinness World Records.
In 2003 Latif offered free meals for five years to all British servicemen serving in Iraq. He also offered free curries for life to the rugby player Jonny Wilkinson and to Graeme Souness, former manager of the Newcastle United football team. In 2003 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts for his “efforts to make a difference in society”.
Latif claimed that his restaurant struggled after the 9/11 attacks, and four years ago he passed his restaurant to one of his sons after the business had failed to pay a VAT bill.
Abdul Latif was a Liberal Democrat supporter, and his favourite food was fish and chips.
He is survived by his wife, Neawarun, their four daughters and two sons.
Abdul Latif, restaurateur, was born in December 15, 1954. He died of a heart attack on January 27, 2008, aged 53
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
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John Smith (the leader we never had)
Robin Cook
Duncan Edwards
and not a great but I think was coming into his prime..... Marc-Vivien Foe
Stuart Adamson (seconded, Trufflehound)
John Smith (the leader we never had)
Robin Cook
Duncan Edwards
and not a great but I think was coming into his prime..... Marc-Vivien Foe
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
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Oh and H h h h h h h h ancock.
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John Lennon, 40.
RIP.
John Lennon. Wife beater, mysoginistic, drug addicted arsehole.
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Every soldier who has died in Iraq and Afghanistan
Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!
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Jacqueline du Pre - absolutely brilliant cellist, died of multiple sclerosis aged 42 in 1987 (is it really 20 years?)
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who let his feckin hUge MANCUNIAN EGO RUN AWAY WITH ITSELF