Derek Bailey: Last News

Times as the “world’s greatest living standup comedian”; I have rapped in 10th-century Old English on a No 1 single; I won Celebrity Mastermind answering questions on the guitarist and improviser Derek Bailey; and a film I authored was recently declared by a government body to have passed the “cultural test of being British” with full marks! So you must listen to me when I ask if Oliver Dowden is suitable for the role he has been decanted into, safeguarding the nation’s cultural heart at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. A chittering monkey could pour some orange sick into a jelly mould, but that does not make it a jelly.

Lancashire Telegraph.Derek Bailey left two hand written notes on the kitchen table, before he took his own life on March 30 at his home on Rickard Road, Nelson.He was found dead after a neighbour noticed a letter in his window which read: "Do not enter, phone the police."Neighbour, Margaret Rhodes was sent to check on Mr Bailey after he failed to phone his mother and his sister became worried.Cops were called and entered the property through force, finding Mr Bailey on the floor next to his bed with empty pill packets next to him.Coroner James Newman said at an inquest which took place in Preston: "In the notes he clearly indicates an intention to take his own life and writes, 'sorry I have had enough'."Mr Bailey had taken a high-level of