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Michael Owen
Hi there
I have read your tribute to Graham I also see you have a collection of the radio shows I have been searching for them for years now Could you get in touch with me because id like copies of the shows It might be an impossible task but please contact me anyway
Much oblidged to you
Michael Owen
My email is : maiden82@virginmedia.com
My phone number is : 01782 287862
steveimp
I still listen to the Grumbleweeds radio shows even now and have a CD full of mp3's in the car. A sad loss.
Both them and the Hancock series got me through a rough patch in hospital a few years ago.
RIP Graham, Uncle Rubbish will always live on.
MCR Media
Graham Walker of the Grumbleweeds has died
Grumbleweeds' Graham Walker dies
Comic loses cancer battle
Source: chortle
Graham Walker, founder of the comedy musical and impressions group The Grumbleweeds, has died at the age of 68.
He had been fighting cancer for two years.
Walker started the group with Robin Colvill in Leeds in 1962. They toured the Northern club circuit before getting their big break five years later, when they appeared on the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, by which time they had grown to a five-piece.
But it was on radio where they made their name, with an incredible 15 series running on Radio 2 from 1979 to 1988.
In 1998, they pared back to a more financially viable two-man bad, with just Walker and Colville. They were due to tour later in the year, including a summer season in Skegness.
Among those paying tribute on Twitter was Shane Ritchie, who said: ‘Just heard the sad news... funny, sweet & genuine[ly] gentle.’
Fellow comic Billy Pearce, who is also from Leeds, added: ‘I'm just getting my head round the fact that we've lost my great pal Graham Walker, I'm heartbroken... There's no one like him; he was so brave.’
Mick Miller said: ‘So sad to hear about the passing of Graham from The Grumbleweeds. He was one of the nice guys. A truly funny man.’
And Bobby Ball said: ‘You know a comedian is a man who tells funny stories and a comic is a FUNNY man that's the difference. Graham Walker was one of the best comics we have had.... where have all the comics gone? To all the people who knew Graham, let’s all have a drink tonight in the memory of a wonderful man and great comic.’
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