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Dave Greenfield, keyboard player for The Stranglers, dies from coronavirus
Slicing Up Eyeballs ^ | 5/5/20

Posted on 05/05/2020 9:11:49 AM PDT by sushiman

Dave Greenfield, whose keyboard playing help give The Stranglers their unique sound amid the squall of late-’70s U.K. punk, died on Sunday night of complications from the COVID-19 respiratory disease, the band announced. He was 71.

Greenfield played keyboards and sang with The Stranglers for much of the last 45 years, having joined in 1975. He co-wrote the group’s biggest hit, 1981’s “Golden Brown,” and was still recording and touring with the band prior to his death.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 2020election; davegreenfield; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; music; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; thestranglers
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Great band in their heyday and were performing worldwide before Greenfield's death , albeit with just 2 orginal members . It's after 1 a.m. here in Japan , so in the morning I shall play their greatest hits CD ...R.I.P. Dave .
1 posted on 05/05/2020 9:11:49 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: sushiman

Amazing band. Hopefully he is now in a place where there is Always the Sun, and beauty is more than Skin Deep.


2 posted on 05/05/2020 9:14:42 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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“died on Sunday night of complications from the COVID-19 respiratory disease”

Which, in plain-speak, means he died of something else, but since he may or may not have had COVID-19 symptoms, they are listing that as the official cause of death.

Still, a sad loss - Aural Sculpture remains as one of my favorite albums.


3 posted on 05/05/2020 9:15:58 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: mkleesma

I knew it!

From the article:
“Following a stay in hospital for heart problems, Dave tested positive for the COVID-19 virus last Sunday but he sadly lost his battle last night”

So he was in for hear problems, but conveniently died of COVID-19.


4 posted on 05/05/2020 9:18:04 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

It won’t get covered as one might think:

http://www.google.com/search?q=the+stranglers+and+feminists


5 posted on 05/05/2020 9:18:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: sushiman

Sorry about his death.

Who are the Stranglers?


6 posted on 05/05/2020 9:23:35 AM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

” Hopefully he is now in a place where there is Always the Sun, and beauty is more than Skin Deep. “

Best comment so far . I knew when posting that there would be those who would say it wasn’t the Wuhan virus that was the cause of his death . How much it caused his death I have no way of knowing . All I was doing was reporting his demise from a story a Facebook group posted .


7 posted on 05/05/2020 9:25:01 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: Artcore

my question as well...


8 posted on 05/05/2020 9:25:18 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Artcore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranglers


9 posted on 05/05/2020 9:26:02 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: sushiman

Bummer, I had a couple of LPs


10 posted on 05/05/2020 9:27:39 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Artcore
The Stranglers
11 posted on 05/05/2020 9:31:19 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Artcore
The Stranglers
12 posted on 05/05/2020 9:31:19 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: sushiman

GOLDEN BROWWWWWNNNN


13 posted on 05/05/2020 9:32:05 AM PDT by struggle
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Did the attending physician have the brains to treat him with HCQ, Zinc, and ZPac???????????????????If he did not, lawsuit time.................


14 posted on 05/05/2020 9:33:21 AM PDT by chopperk
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in plain-speak, means he died of something else

That's exactly what it means. Whenever you read so-and-so died of complications from X, it means they died of something else anywhere from loosely related to X to completely unrelated including medical malpractice.

15 posted on 05/05/2020 9:33:31 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Artcore

This is one of their best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5UfE2BbYSQ

“Brother, you better watch out for the Skin Deep”


16 posted on 05/05/2020 9:38:28 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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Would he still be alive if not for COVID-19? Almost certainly. So I think it’s fair to call this a COVID-19 death.

Where it gets complicated is if the victim had other serious health problems. Would Greenfield still be alive if it were not for his heart problem? Again, almost certainly.

I’m in the camp that says if it’s COVID-19 related, then it’s a COVID-19 death. An analogy: A thug pushes an old man down the stairs. The old man does not survive. Because he’s old. Old age didn’t kill him. The thug killed him.

P.S. Red China can go to hell.


17 posted on 05/05/2020 9:39:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: sushiman

I met that guy years ago when the Stranglers played in a bar in town. He was kind of heavy set but had an engaging personality and many rings on his fingers. RIP.


18 posted on 05/05/2020 9:41:41 AM PDT by BEJ
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I’m sorry , but why would you ever name of your band “The Stranglers”

Who ; the Rolling Stones ; Led Zeppelin ; the grateful dead - now those are good names


19 posted on 05/05/2020 9:55:08 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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“I’m sorry , but why would you ever name of your band “The Stranglers”

“Formed as the Guildford Stranglers on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey,[note 1] they originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude had them identified by the media with the emerging UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre, and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave, art rock and gothic rock through the sophisti-pop of some of their 1980s output.”


20 posted on 05/05/2020 10:01:27 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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