Tony Banks RIP

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What is it with this year? Mo Mowlam, Robin Cook, now Banks.

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Er, Mowlam, Cook were last year? But yeah, Tony Banks, RIP.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

He'll be remembered as a man who never let ideology stand in the way of a good job.

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

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This twelvemonth, whatever.
I couldn't believe he was that age. Actually it's three years younger than his given age in today's paper.

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

RIP
http://www.blazinbeauties.com/images/tyra_banks_pictures/tyra_banks2.jpg
she will be missed....

― RIP, Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

His best quote was at PMQs with John Major in 1995: "Does the Prime Minister agree with the words of the Minister of State for the Armed Forces, the honourable Member for Crawley (Nicholas Soames), that Princess Diana is in an advanced state of paranoia?"

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

His wikipedia entry is a good epitaph (under "outspoken behaviour)...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

I thought this would be about:

http://www.e-prog.net/images/concerts/images/genesis7_banks.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 8 January 2006 22:57 (twenty years ago)

me too.

didn't tony banks once roll a joint on television, in timed competition?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I vaguely remember that, was that on James Whale's show?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

didn't tony banks once roll a joint on television, in timed competition?

Yes, very badly. I think he was in favour of decriminalisation, but had obvioulsy never tried it himself.

At the risk of sounding banal, I think it's a shame he's died. He always seemed like a good bloke, but once he actually got a proper job (wasn't he the Sports Minister who suggested that we should have a United Kingdom football team?) seemed a bit rubbish. Trying to stand against Ken Livingstone for mayor didn't strike me as a shrewd move. I'll always respect his finger-crossing for the oath of allegiance to the Queen, though.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure why I respect him for that more than I respected Rosie Kane turning up to be sworn in as an MSP in jean with slogans written on her hand in biro. Possibly because Banks seemed like a good guy with a mission to make things better, rather than a sloganeering chancer.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

I believe his joint rolling skills were on display in the TV show Johnny Vaughan hosted directly prior to Moviewatch in the early 90s, no? Late night talk show of some hue.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

yes. with catmo. naked city?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, that was it. Apologies for invoking the Whalester.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

surprising

didn't know much about him -- seemed nice enough

RIP

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

I missed this when it happened.

from Wikipedia
[i]An example of Banks' pro-animal rights views surfaced, on May 21, 2004, when he proposed Early Day Motion EDM 1255 in the 2003-04 session of Parliament [1], in response to newspaper reports revealing that MI5 had proposed using pigeons as flying bombs during World War II.

The motion condemned the proposal, describing humans as "obscene, perverted, cruel, uncivilised and lethal", and proposed that the House "looks forward to the day when the inevitable asteroid slams into the Earth and wipes them out thus giving nature the opportunity to start again". It was only signed by two other MPs — Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell. [/i]

RIP.

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Monday, 9 January 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

A more than entertaining bloke, let alone a more than entertaining MP.

Well, I've missed him of late, and I only saw the 'Tony Banks is very unwell' report in the indie on Saturday.

Any chance of a tribute single out for next week?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 January 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

i'm desperately trying to remember why i didn't like him. on paper i should have done. hmm.

his response to the pigeons thing is wonderful, but his comments upon standing down as an MP were vile: dealing with constituents' problems, he said, was "intellectually numbing, and tedious in the extreme". nice. of course, all those boring little constituents just get in the way of the proper business of being an MP, ie swanning about pontificating and talking shit about football.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure why I respect him for that more than I respected Rosie Kane turning up to be sworn in as an MSP in jean with slogans written on her hand in biro

Yeah, but that's how they all used to dress, isn't it? White jeans, usually, and the slogans tended to be written in lipstick across their chests rather than biro. Was she also wearing a feather boa and tiara?

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

He should have dressed better though, what with his brother being Jeff Banks of TV's The Clothes Show.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Why do you always make that joke, Pete?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

10 points to anyone who can identify the other 2 in the spliff rolling comp. it was NAKED CITY, and one of them was MR C..

― piscesboy, Monday, 9 January 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

so the other one then?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Fish out of Marillion, I'm sure. Who did a passable Camberwell Carrot.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

someone from cypress hill.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

google made this quiz quite easy :0(

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Banks was so bad it made me think rolling was some baffling art (i was young and innocent then)

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

I also thought this was going to be a Genesis thread! I was all set to play "Domino" on endless repeat. Actually that's not a bad idea.

― Dan (RIVERS OF BLOOD) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Play The Brazilian instead. on the 'visible tuoch' tour video, Tony says something like 'there's loads of stuff like The Brazilian on my solo albums, so if you like that song you should go and buy them. (glumly, sotto voce:) nobody does, of course.'

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha really? That's awesome!

― Dan (Go Tony, It's Your Birthday) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

o yes. i was a twelve year old genesis fan and my dad had the video. the moment is, iirc, both droll and slightly heart-breaking. tony banks always had a sort of bookish, bleak-humoured air.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

me too.

me too.

― miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Ah, Mellor:

Former Tory cabinet minister and fellow fan, David Mellor, told mourners at the City of London Crematorium: "Tony ate, slept and breathed Chelsea, not one of life's softest options when you think that for more than two decades he represented West Ham.

"Tony was a diehard and occasionally an embittered partisan, impassioned, not to say inflammatory, in his opinions.

He added: "A lord of misrule, a cheeky chappy, call him what you will - he can be defined, but he cannot be replaced."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

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