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03 March 2008 @ 11:13 am
In memoriam  

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Jeff Healey. He was the first celebrity a “fanned”. Wasn’t very popular worldwide, and barely known where I lived, but somehow I was impressed with him. His attitude maybe? A blind guitarrist, whose debut album was tittled “See the Light.” I used to listen to his music, collecting articles and photos from German version of “Bravo” magazine, because there wasn’t a “Bravo” in Poland at the time, and generally “fanning”. I even got his official fan-club address in Canada, but never really wrote there.

Then I started listening to different kinds of music, although never forgot him altogether. And just this weekend I thought, hey! There wasn’t any internet, or YouTube, when I fanned Jeff Healey! So I youtubed some of his videos and live performances and watched them, still impressed with how amazingly he played guitar. Not my cup of tea anymore, but great he was.

Little I knew he was dying at the time. Died of cancer, yesterday.

Rest in peace, Jeff.



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silwyna: Lee Adama[info]silwyna on March 3rd, 2008 11:17 am (UTC)
It is always sad when someone you admired for so long passes away.

I didn't know him, but I'll raise my glass to him in honor. Rest in peace, Jeff.
olga: Year of Hell[info]o_yannik on March 3rd, 2008 11:57 am (UTC)
Thanks, Silke. :)
The thing is I didn't even think about him for years, just remembered very recently. Gads, I was a kid back then, thirteen or something. I'm not really sad, just strange.
silwyna: Lee Adama[info]silwyna on March 3rd, 2008 01:06 pm (UTC)
I felt the same way when I learned that Jonathan Brandis had committed suicide. My fandays for him had long been over and I hadn't thought of him in a long time, but reading about his death had been strange.
olga: Year of Hell[info]o_yannik on March 3rd, 2008 02:06 pm (UTC)
Well, suicide is a special kind of death and it always gives strange feelings, even if you aren't a fan of that person. I can at least believe that "my" celebrity was satisfied with the live he had.
silwyna: Lee Adama[info]silwyna on March 3rd, 2008 03:43 pm (UTC)
I can at least believe that "my" celebrity was satisfied with the live he had.

Good for him. What more can you ask for, right?
ammonite7[info]ammonite7 on March 3rd, 2008 05:41 pm (UTC)
I've heard of him; I believe some now famous guitar player like Eric Clapton or someone said they were influenced by him. Wasn't he a blues player, or am I wrong?

Here's to him.
olga: Kara[info]o_yannik on March 3rd, 2008 08:16 pm (UTC)
Blues, rock, the such. Hee, I believe Eric Clapton is, like, twenty years older, actually, so it could be the other way around with the influences. :) It must have been someone else.