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Zou kunnen, weet ik niet...
Even wat info over zijn vader (die wel heel bekend is/was):
Rock & roll has always been populated by fringe figures, cult artists that managed to develop a fanatical following because of their outsized quirks, but few cult rockers have ever been quite as weird, or beloved, as
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. As the leader of the underappreciated and ill-fated pub-rockers Kilburn & the High Roads,
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cut a striking figure, stalked the stage with dynamic charisma and spitting out music-hall numbers and rockers in his thick Cockney accent.
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was 28 at the time he formed Kilburn, and once they disbanded, conventional wisdom would have suggested that he was far too old to become a pop star, but conventional wisdom never played much of a role in
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's career.
In May 1998,
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announced that he had be diagnosed with colon cancer in 1995 and that the disease had spread to his liver. He decided to release the information the weekend of his 56th birthday, in hopes of offering encouragement for others battling the disease. For the next year, he battled the disease while keeping a public profile — in the fall of 1999, he was inducted into Q magazine's songwriting hall of fame, and he appeared at the ceremony. Sadly, it was his last public appearance.
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succumbed to cancer on March 27, 2000. He left behind a truly unique, individual body of work.