I was very good FRIENDS with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In FACT, I was the last PERSON he spoke with before he DIED.

Your dear baby has DIED INNOCENT and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful CREATOR, most probably from a LIFE to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and BLISS.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the UNIVERSITY of CHICAGO. We were married in 1936. She DIED in 1970.

Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. PRESIDENT Roosevelt sent his BODY BACK to TURKEY on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World WAR.

When my mother died, I had to go on AIR that NIGHT and do jokes.

'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that GOOD PEOPLE died. It MUST have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his PERSONAL demons get in the way of what was best for our COUNTRY.

I was born when you kissed me. I DIED when you left me. I LIVED a few WEEKS while you loved me.

When SOMEONE died in the wilderness of frontier AMERICA, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone DIES SPIRITUALLY in the wilderness of SIN, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

My GRANDMOTHER DIED when my mother was just 11 YEARS old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly WELL.

It's been such a DEEP and amazing journey for me, getting CLOSE to JOHN Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the YOUNGEST of them all.

I think all of us THOUGHT that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that MARTIN Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. KENNEDY died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more DIFFICULT than I think we had thought.

If some PERSONS died, and others did not DIE, DEATH WOULD be a terrible AFFLICTION.

When I was 12, I WROTE a LIST of THINGS to do before I DIED. 'Own a PICASSO' was one of those things.

I had a very distant RELATIONSHIP with my FATHER. It was ALWAYS just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she DIED. I was 16.

I had seen my buddies CRASH and burn. Keith Moon died, and I always THOUGHT that was the way he wanted to go. John Belushi was a dear friend. A lot of the GUYS that I RAN with were ending up dead, and I saw myself right on schedule to do that. I had some moments of clarity - once in a while.