Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke 🙂 Now that's funny.
" I was walking down the high streets when I heard footsteps behind me , and there was a little old man dressed in scarlet and grey , he chuckled away ..ha ha ha .he he he I am the laughing gnome and you can't catch me " god rest Dave Jones .:'(
My eyes welled up when I read the text from a friend telling me, which doesn't happen to me often. In 2008 I had such a vivid dream that he'd died that I woke up in the night and made a compilation tape before I realized he hadn't died. I never listened to it till yesterday. Life On Mars, Sweet Thing > Candidate > Sweet Thing, Lady Grinning Soul, Five Years, Sons Of The Silent Age, After All, Golden Years, Wild Is The Wind, Lady Stardust, God Knows I'm Good, Teenage Wildlife, Look Back In Anger, Always Crashing In The Same Car, Helden. I have been under his spell since I was 10 years old. His music has been part of the stitching almost my entire life.