The Gonzo Daily - Monday
I made an appalling cock up (to use the technical
publishing industry terminology) in the most recent edition of Gonzo Weekly.
Bart Lancia, my favourite roving reporter, sent me a link to a touching story
about country singer Ray Price who at the age of 87 has decided to stop
treatment for his advanced pancreatic cancer, and has issued this farewell
statement to his fans: "I love my fans and have devoted my life to reaching out
to them," Price wrote. "I appreciate their support all these years and I hope I
haven't let them down. I am at peace. I love Jesus. I'm going to be just fine.
Don't worry about me. I'll see you again one day." Unfortunately, probably
because I had the death of my old friend Lloyd Pye on my mind, in the link to
this story in this weekend's magazine I named him as Lloyd Price. Lloyd Price is
an 80-year-old R&B singer who, as far as I am aware, is in fine fettle. I
hope that anyone affected by this will accept my sincere apologies. You can see
how contrite I am because I haven't even used the headline 'The Price is
Right!'
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* The
Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about
artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has
other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly
newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this
link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* We should probably mention here that some of our
posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of
interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other
people's websites. Honest guv!
* Jon Downes, the editor of all these
ventures (and several others), is an old hippy of 54 who - together with his
orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small
kittens (one of whom is also orange) - puts it all together from a converted
potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with
various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his
lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law and
a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus...did we mention the orange
cat?