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 Post subject: R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:07 pm 
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So long Mr/ Jefferson. Thanks for all the laughs.

Bet you didn't know he was a big prog rock fan.

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 Post subject: Re: R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley
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Seen him pictured in a YES t-shirt many a time. He was a really interesting and versatile actor. He had a way of playing a really fecking irritating character yet always managed to sympathetically pull you over to his side. And that is not easy to do. Special fellow.


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 Post subject: Re: R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley
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I guess he moved on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky. He was a funny man, and great actor.

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I wasn't aware that he liked prog rock, but I saw some videotape of him on the news where he was playing a Yamaha DX7 in a small home studio surrounded by keyboards, not unlike my own.

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 Post subject: Re: R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley
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A clip of him dancing to Nektar!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHY3pMEUJs

Also he actually cut an album with YES founder Jon Anderson. Called Festival of Dreams, it has never been released.


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Alan wrote:
I guess he moved on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky.


Hope he got to take his Eloy albums with him.

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 Post subject: Re: R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley
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I still can't get over the fact that he recorded an album with Jon Anderson. I would love to hear it. I wish it had been released. It's odd, but yesterday on my way to work I was listening to Jon Anderson, for the first time in a while. When I got to work, I learned about Sherman's death. Of course, I never put the two together. Truth is indeed stranger that fiction.

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