filf
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Post by filf on Jul 3, 2006 11:28:16 GMT
Can anyone give me some more information on the death of John 'captain strange' Bunclark?
I have only just learned of his death through this site, as i have been living in Australia for many years.
Last time i saw him he was working at a hotel on the sea front, maybe called 'The Rossalin' or something similar. Me and Mark Bristow were stranded so he snuck us into one of the rooms to crash for the night and in the morning he served us a cooked breakfast. Now thats room service! He was a top bloke who's antics still make me laugh to this day.
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Post by andiprey on Jul 10, 2006 16:33:55 GMT
A Captain Strange story, While working at the Rosalyn as a chef, Captain was called to a table by some customers who wanted to praise the chef for the wonderful stuffing in their roast chicken, captain took the compliment, scratched his head and thought to himself" what stuffing" he returned to the food storage place and found all the chickens infested with MAGGOTS!!!! Foul play!!!
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Post by thedimlocator on Jul 11, 2006 0:08:28 GMT
It's a bit of a muddled tale with a degree of conjecture, but he died, late '80's(?) sometime, in Israel officially of a drugs overdose.
He'd been living and working out there for a while with trips home every now and again, on kibbutz, got involved with a couple of the "Rambo" films, was known as Jericho John.
Obviously he'd had his share of problems with drugs here but he had given up and was quite proud of the fact that he hadn't touched anything for the last 5 years or whatever it was, I certainly saw no evidence of it when he was here.
Anyway, from what we can gather he got involved with a South American girl, he let her believe he'd marry her and she'd end up with a UK passport. Now she had 2 dodgy brothers who were very keen for an excuse to be able to nip in out of the UK/Europe, but it became obvious that this wasn't going to happen. Normally The Captain would be able to talk his way out of a corner but, not with these two. Israeli police weren't too bothered, why should they be, dead foreigner, drugs overdose, just get him sent home. A lot of guesswork but it's the best we can do.
The Captain was full of stories, once said he was in Tel Aviv and passed The Club Soweto which promised "Heavy dub reggae" so he paid his money, went in and the first thing he heard was, "ROXANNE!"
He'd been to a party on the Kursaal estate and had crashed out on the floor. Time for a pee, but instead of going to the toilet he went outside over the balcony and came back in. Some hours later he found himself being shaken awake by the police with a horrified looking couple standing behind them. He'd gone back into the next door flat.
And there are a load more, what about the time Johnny Thunders...
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Post by andiprey on Jul 11, 2006 11:36:38 GMT
Heres another, At noting hill carnival capt run out off beer money, his solution was to pick up a pint pot and start collecting money for the African freedom fighters fund, soon the glass was full and we were able to continue drinking, it didn't work the second time though and the last i saw of captain he was being chased by a mob of angry black faces.
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