Kate Clarke
Those Two-Day Love Affairs
When I was a reporter I interviewed a lot of my musical heroes. Terry would laugh at me for being 'in love' with James Burton, Glen...
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Kate Clarke
Sep 24, 20202 min read
Anthony F@cking Newley
This is one of my favourite photographs. Terry's too. It was taken in Dunblane after Terry and I, and his son Joseph had visited Terry's...
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Kate Clarke
Sep 16, 20202 min read
Like Disney's Genie
Going through someone's papers, mementos, photographs and keepsakes makes you realise how much a human being copes with in a single life....
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Kate Clarke
Sep 2, 20203 min read
Unless The Lights Are Out
Am I fetishising Terry? Probably. But if I don't talk about who he was, who will? A person isn't made up of their life-events dotted...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 29, 20202 min read
Cashing in Chips That Aren't Mine
There are people in this shabby world - some I have never met, some I have met for the briefest of times, and some who I have spent scant...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 23, 20202 min read
A Glass of Ricard, a Dash of Water
My lovely brother, Martin, packed me off on holiday to Malta with my niece last week. I suspect she was under strict instructions to feed...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 7, 20202 min read
Berkshire Girls
I keep thinking about those interviews Wilko Johnson did after he dodged the Grim Reaper. If anyone was going to side-step death it...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 31, 20203 min read
A Stranger To My Birth
I've been listening to Honky Tonk Masquerade. It is one of those albums I hadn't dared to approach since Terry died. He was so into Joe...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 29, 20201 min read
Alan O'Leary Called
Alan O'Leary called me, doll, the good ones are looking out for me now. A big man, big heart, he cherished you. Last time we saw him he...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 28, 20202 min read
The Full Neil Diamond
I dreamed about Terry again. He was sitting in my mum's sunny kitchen, singing us Neil Diamond songs. I heard the whole of Signs,...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 26, 20202 min read
Girls In Their Summer Clothes
I bought a new dress. It feels quite wrong to buy clothes Terry will never see. Particularly beautiful clothes. It is midnight blue with...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 13, 20202 min read
As Sweet as New Tobacco
That Western jacket I have been obsessing about? The last time Terry wore it was at The Luminaire, in Kilburn High Road. He and Wes...
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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 30, 20202 min read
Magical Thinking
Smarter people than me have talked about magical thinking. In the first few weeks after it happened I set about gathering everything...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 27, 20203 min read
The Heart Sings
People have been sending me photographs. Lots of Terry onstage. Often from The Breedon Bar, Birmingham, with Flaco Jiménez or with Jesse...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Nature Boy
I hate to write of flowers It’s not very rock and roll. But those tulips you bought and I planted couldn’t be more you if they tried....
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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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