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Red Tony
First up, the excellent Dublin band, The Jimmy Cake, were inspired to write a song after the man pictured below, called Red Tony. And it really is a fantastic song. I am embedding it here, comfortable they won’t mind, as long as I don’t alert their record company 
Give it a listen as you read on…
Spark was a very early blog from 1996 built and maintained by my late father. The last edit was in February ’96, and he lived until 2004, so I guess he didn’t maintain them much. Still though, I anticipate the day when the old server will be taken offline, and the pages deleted. So with that in mind, I’ll probably reproduce that blog on this site somewhere in the future. In the meantime, you can view the original blog here:
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I remember him doctoring this image to remove a tiny mole. Needless to say I slagged him relentlessly.
The Oul’ Fella was also a prolific contributor to the early usenet groups. You can find those here: