Not fade away

Pere Ubu’s sui generis wellspring David Thomas left us on April 23.

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Leader of north Wales rockers The Alarm and beyond, Mike Peters left us on April 29.

Having formed in 1975, Talking Heads surfaced from the ashes of New York band The Artistics, with frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz eventually recruiting (after three auditions) fledgling

When the Irish band were a folksy blues three-piece, it was Eric Bell who defined Thin Lizzy on their 1971 self-titled debut and early 70s follow-ups, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage and Vagabonds Of The Western World

Bringing home the dead Oleksii Yukov spends his ...