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Former Japan bass player Mick Karn loses battle with cancer

The Guardian, Wednesday 5 January 2011


The 52-year-old musician, born Adonis Michaelides in Nicosia, Cyprus, had co-founded the band with schoolfriends from Catford but after its first demise in 1982, briefly formed Dali's Car with vocalist Peter Murphy, previously with postpunk bank Bauhaus.

He worked on a number of solo musical projects and as a sculptor and photographer as well as playing with Gary Numan, Kate Bush and Joan Armatrading.

According to the biography on Karn's site, he was a Greek Cypriot who arrived in London when he was three years old, and played mouth organ, violin and then bassoon (with the school orchestra and London School Symphony Orchestra).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/ja ... ies-cancer

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Rip..... Yet another example of how AngloSaxon civilizations...........................

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sad ..........loved Japan .........

The bassist, real name Andonis Michaelides, announced last June he was suffering from advanced-stage cancer.
At the time, he was living in Cyprus with his wife Kyoko and their young son Metis, but hoped to return to London to seek medical treatment.
Karn launched an appeal on his website for help with his medical costs and financial support for his family and was able to return to the UK in September


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R.I.P.