Following from my post about Noel earlier, another Crematorium tale...
When my bestest ever pal Mike Thornton (aka Captain/Mike Vortex) died, getting on for 4 years ago now...
The ceremony at the crem had a few moments of non-conformity, in keeping with his somewhat non-conformist self. He remains a much loved and much missed friend to many.
One thing that astounded me was the number of his ex-girlfriends/partners who attended. They all seemed to get on so well with each other. I guess they all knew they had shared someone special.
Anywho, as Mike was a graphics kind of guy, projections and screen-printing and since I only found out at very short notice I decided that I could pay tribute to him by mass-producing him for posterity. To this end I printed off about 20 contact sheets of candid portraits of him, cut them out and placed one on each of the seats in the crem. Caused a bit of a hoot!
But anywho, the music...
During the ceremony there were various bits of Yes and such but the piece de resistance was the soundtrack to his disappearanc behind the red felt curtains...
Written by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire in 1963 for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Check it out...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2x5IKxmAQ&feature=youtube_gdata
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 29 Jan 2010, 21:42, 2 replies)

Excellent
The spouse has promised that the same piece will be played for me under those circumstances, and no matter who objects he plans to keep that promise because he knows how happy it would make me were I alive to see it.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 23:33, closed)

Now that
Is how I want to go...

The original version and still the best.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sun 31 Jan 2010, 22:35, closed)