There was a nice piece about Wilko Johnson in Louder than War last week, but I had to laugh at the way it got promoted on Twitter. “Wilko Johnson who sadly recently passed away,” it said.
“Sadly passed away” isn’t very rock’n’roll, is it?
There is a perfectly good four-letter word they could have used instead. D.I.E.D. Wilko always seemed pretty down to earth so I think he would have preferred that. Also, he was a former English teacher so on that basis I also think he would have preferred that.
We are not Victorians. We don’t need euphemisms.
Anyway, I lost one of my best friends last month. And “lost” is not a euphemism. Yes, my friend died. And now I have a loss in my life. Another one.
