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Kate Clarke
Jul 8, 20203 min read
The Good Ones Dream Of Their Grandmother
I’ve started to notice women in the supermarket queue who wear a large wedding ring on a chain around their neck. It’s a little moment of...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 5, 20201 min read
Proper Poets
There are some words only poets use, in order to sound like ‘proper poets’, aren’t there? They always set my teeth on edge: Shards...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 2, 20202 min read
Elvis, Terry and the Brando of Theatrical Tailoring
As you know, Terry’s beautiful clothes are grieving me. There is one item in particular. A lovely, Scully Western jacket: fluid, inky...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
People Are Stupid
I've been wondering why it bothers me so deeply that some folks who really should have valued Terry didn't. I'm not talking about his...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Irish Fans Tell The Best Stories
A sweet couple from Enniskillen has been in touch. They talked of a Friday night in The Bridge Inn, Ramelton, Co Donegal, when Terry...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Weymouth, Billy Fury, Ada
When Terry was a kid, on a week's holiday with his parents in Weymouth, his beloved gran, Ada, sent him a letter every other day. "I've...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Alan O'Leary Called
A friend of Terry's, a DJ on the Irish traditional scene, just called me. "I've got some recordings of some radio interviews I did with...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Hey Doll
I always called him 'doll'. "Hey, doll." I never had to explain why. He knew, of course, that it was a nod and a wink to his love of the...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Watching a Man Light a Smoke
Many people have used the word intense to describe me. They don’t mean it as a compliment. They're right. People have always backed away...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
That time we wrote a song about Mickey Rourke.
Often, when we wrote together, I would be at my desk at work, and Terry would be at home. He'd email: 'Wanna write a song?' He'd give me...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Tommy Steele
When Terry and I first met we spent a lot of time apart. I joked that we should get tattoos, as a sign of our belonging - perhaps half a...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 24, 20201 min read
Black Dogs We Have Loved
I found some faded photos in the loft of Terry in Palmer Park, Reading, in the 1970s, with his first dog, Bob. He never stopped talking...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 24, 20202 min read
The Jungle Book and Loyalty
You reasses things, don’t you? Here I was thinking we weren’t smart enough. But actually we did OK. When we got together - in the first...
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