drummer for Sparks, also RIP

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from mirror.co.uk...

SUICIDE OF SPARKS DRUMMER

Feb 5 2005

By Lorraine Fisher

A DRUMMER with 70s hit group Sparks hanged himself in a row over a neighbour's loud music.

Norman Diamond, 53, was in despair after he failed to get the council to stop the noise - which his neighbour insisted officials had already checked and cleared her over.

Girlfriend Jane Gant, 50, came home to find him dead, hours after police visited him following a tip-off he was suicidal.

Pc Sarah Ratcliffe told an inquest: "He said the neighbour didn't work during the day and played music. He seemed agitated and started hitting the table. It was clear he had been drinking."

Police went to Diamond's house in Sandhurst, Berks, after ex-bandmate Trevor White called them, the Windsor hearing was told.

Last night neighbour Lisa Norman, 27, said: "I can't believe I'm being blamed."

Diamond's three top 10 hits included This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us.

Verdict: Suicide.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

WHOA

― Who did release magic family out from the base of $499 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

thing is, i can't find any info on "normand diamond" associated with "sparks" on google...

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

of course, that could be cuz i was spelling it "normand"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Five months old news:

Dinky Diamond R.I.P.

We just heard that Dinky passed away on 10th September 2004. Norman is sadly missed by his loving partner Jane, sisters Maureen, Daphne, Margaret and brother David, their families and all friends.
The funeral Service took take place at 1.30pm, Friday 24th September, Park Crematorium, Guildford Road, Aldershot.

Dinky Diamond (real name: Norman Diamond) was recruited as part of Sparks' British band in 1973, after the Maels had arrived in England. He played drums on three albums and was fired with the rest of the band (Trevor White and Ian Hampton) in 1976, when the Maels returned to Los Angeles to form a new band to record "Big Beat".

Out of the three original members recruited by Sparks in 1973, Dinky Diamond was the only one who was not fired preliminary.

With John Hewlett, Trevor White and (then ex-Dickie) Chuck Wagon he took part in the 1981 Four Squares project.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I was about to say. I was worried their eighties drummer had died!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oh weird... well, the mirror, right on top of things then, eh?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

They were reporting on today's inquest.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

well, that makes sense now, doesn't it...

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Diamond's three top 10 hits included This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us.

I had a journalism prof who doted on such ironies.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

God, poor Dinky. My fav Sparks lineup.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 10 February 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Dinky Diamond's Dad's Dog's Dead

RIP Dinky!

― Oh Dadaismus, Poor Dadaismus, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' (Dad, Thursday, 10 February 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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