Suicide
Peter Bellamy committed suicide on 19 September 1991, an event that baffled the folk music community. At the time, he was working with Fellside Records on a project to record major British unaccompanied singing talents. His obituary, published in The Guardian concluded with the words:
| “ | Though his roots were obvious to anyone with half an ear, he added much of himself to what he inherited, and was a giant in a world where the pygmy is the standard by which all must be measured. It was unable to contain him, but now he is dead he will no doubt be consigned to the pantheon where the more threatening icons of our time can be tucked away safely, as relics of a past golden age. Peter Bellamy knew that the golden age is now, and he made it more glorious with his presence. His vast recorded output will be all inspiration to all who follow after. | ” |
His life and work was fondly celebrated by a day of performances including The Transports at Conway Hall in London on 2 October 1992, 13 months after his death.
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Famous quotes containing the word suicide:
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession.”
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear- headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)