Music world mourns Loved One

"'THE world didn't get to hear the Loved Ones and the world lost out,' music writer and broadcaster Clinton Walker said yesterday.

"That's a popular view in Australian music circles and one that echoed around the country following the death of Gerry Humphries, the Melbourne band's charismatic and influential lead singer.

"The 63-year-old, English-born musician died in London on Monday from a heart attack. He had been based in the English capital for most of his life, away from the music industry, since enjoying brief success here with the Loved Ones and with his later outfit the Joy Band."
The Australian

Baz le Tuff and I saw him in 1354 at Mulwala (Mud Wallow -- Ongo Bongo!). I doubt that either le Tuff or Humphries remembered, but I did.

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