Humph
Posted at 00:05:07
on Sat, April 26th 2008 by graham
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death
humphrey lyttleton
i'm sorry i haven't a clue
people
Humphrey Lyttleton, musician, raconteur, all-round virtuoso, has died.
He was a man of immense talent, not to mention his equally immense comic timing. He was one of two people who inspired me to pick up a trumpet (the other was Louis Armstrong). More importantly, he showed me the value of deadpan delivery, of straightfacedness in the face of the undeniably silly and, most importantly, of the ability to laugh and to have fun, whatever life throws at you.
He once said:
"As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from dessication."
And now he's gone. Like I said on Twitter: the world's going to be a lot less funny from here-on in.
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