OFF) Daevid Allen health update

Abra Cadabra anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 6 10:52:13 EST 2015


Ugh. Shattering news. Peace to Daevid and Gong... will be a sad
farewell... many good memories (but i never got to see Gong or Daevid
live!!).

2015-02-06 16:06 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk>:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Francois wrote:
>>
>> His cancer has returned and he does not wish to keep fighting it with
>> endless surgeries and "is a firm believer in the way things are"
>>
>> He hopes he has given the world a decent amount of joy and he has been
>> given about 6 months to live as it stands...
>>
>> I am sure his actual words and love messages can be sought by anyone
>> here interested
>
>
>         Top of:
> http://www.planetgong.co.uk/news/current.shtml
> should anyone wish a link...
>
>         This is really sad, even if kind of inevitable. I owe the man a hug
> from a UoE gig years ago where I caught him afterwards and couldn't think of
> anything to say, so he just went for the gesture instead. Lovely man and one
> of the great rock loonies to boot. There won't be another. I wish there was
> more one could do... Yours all,
>                                           Jon
>
> --
>   Jonathan Jarrett       "There is scarce any tradition or popular error
> Medievalist historian    but stands also delivered by some good author."
>      Birmingham         (Sir Thomas Browne, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica", 1646)



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