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Founding member of ELO killed in freak accident as giant runaway hay bale smashes into his van
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| September 5, 2010
Posted on 09/05/2010 11:29:07 AM PDT by Stoat
A founding member of ELO has been killed following a freak accident involving a giant bale of hay.
Mike Edwards, 62, who played cello for the band for three years, died when the giant bale weighing 50 stone crashed down on top of his van.
Mr Edwards died instantly in the accident after the bale careered down the hill, and flipped over a hedge.
Eccentric: Mike Edwards's bizarre costumes and ability to play his cello with fruit were a major part of ELO's appeal
Bowing out: Mike Edwards, on the far right, played cello in ELO from 1972 to 1975
Performing: Edwards plays his cello during a gig in 1974.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: elo; mikeedwards; music; popmusic; progressiverock; rip; rockmusic; rocknroll
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To: Stoat
“Jeff Porcaro died in a gardening accident on August 5, 1992, at the age of 38. He was spraying insecticide in his garden and inhaled too much of the spray, triggering a heart attack. An autopsy revealed a serious heart condition that had been previously undiagnosed.”
To: Stoat
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:05:05 PM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: ReluctantDragon
Jeff Lynne has had a long and successful career with ELO. He was pretty good in the Traveling Wilburys too. As well as producing George Harrison's "Cloud 9" album (one of my faves), and the two 'new' Beatles songs, "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" ... not a bad overall resume, ehhh ?
The less said about Crosby the better.
Dittos
To: SIDENET
Did the perp have a license to roll hay?
To: Stoat
Rest In Peace. I did and do enjoy ELO’s music.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:14:00 PM PDT
by
VR-21
To: Stoat
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:14:21 PM PDT
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
To: Stoat
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:15:37 PM PDT
by
rockrr
("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
To: Sawdring
That whole Out of the Blue album is a classic, not a dog on the entire album. And it had a cool cardboard ELO spaceship you could make, oh how I miss the days of double LPs.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:15:55 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Stoat
It's a bale of hay!!! (do do doodle doodle doo)
What a terrible thing to lose!!!
It's coming our way!!! (do do doodle doodle doo)
Will our next of kin file a suit?
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:19:52 PM PDT
by
Captainpaintball
(If the right has TEABAGGERS, then the left has SCUMBAGGERS and DOUCHEBAGGERS!!!)
To: laconic
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:20:47 PM PDT
by
Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
To: BnBlFlag
You must be young. Electric Light Orchestra was a hard one to miss.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:32:17 PM PDT
by
coon2000
(Give me Liberty or give me death!)
To: Perdogg
Thank you very much for pinging your list :-)
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:33:30 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
To: dfwgator
oh how I miss the days of double LPsAgreed. I miss the great sound of LP's as well as the loss of album cover artwork. Tiny CD covers hardly convey the magnificent artistic expression that the better LP album covers brought into the world.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:41:10 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
To: Stoat
Awww...loved ELO in High School. Accident sounds like something out of “Final Destination.”
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:43:35 PM PDT
by
ladyvet
(WOLVERINES!!!!!)
To: Sawdring
They had a great sound — and it was happy music.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:52:48 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
To: Stoat
Tiny CD covers hardly convey the magnificent artistic expression that the better LP album covers brought into the world.
Nothing on the front, nothing inside, either. The trash they sell as entertainment nowadays, artistic expression has nothing to do with it.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:53:22 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, said the Lord God of hosts.)
To: trisham
To: Stoat
Bless his heart, I guess he just baled out.
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posted on
09/05/2010 1:04:56 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: ChildOfThe60s
I'm guessing it happened here, where the A381 enters the trees going uphill from left to right. Halwell to Harbetonford isn't a very long stretch, and this looks to me like it must be the place.
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posted on
09/05/2010 1:06:29 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: Stoat
How terrible. What a tragedy.
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