A Celebration of Jeb Million's Life

I only took 4 photos and they were all pretty bad and don't go anywhere near telling the story of the night but this is probably the best of the bunch….

In September a very dear friend passed away more info here.

Last night along with a group of his friends we got the old gang together from the days of Singers and celebrated his life at the Manbar Charing Cross Road, it was truly amazing seeing everyone again, some of them I haven't seen for 2o+ years. We had about 30 performers, the troom was full of love and memories, sadness and joy.

Here we have Gary Bardouille singing Never Too Much / Master Blaster with Eric Robinson on keys and Jackie Rawe, Zeeteah Massiah and Linda Duggan on bvs.

My speech at the end of the night.

THANK YOU TO

KEVIN CALLEN, OLIVER Schwerdtfeger, ASH KOTAK, SAMMY REID AND CLIFFORD SLAPPER FOR CO-ORGANISING THIS EVENT WITH ME.

THANK YOU TO CHRIS AND WES AT THE MANBAR FOR ALL THEIR HELP.

THANK YOU TO MAXINE GILMORE FOR DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB ON THE SOUND TONIGHT.

THANKYOU TO Matthew Wherry FOR FILMING THE EVENT AND TO MY HUSBAND MAX ELLIS FOR PHOTOGRAPHING IT.

THANKYOU TO CLAIRE DALLISON IN LA FOR THE FILM ABOUT JEB'S LIFE.

THANKS TO SUSAN WORTH, SAMMY AND STEWART FOR MANAGING THE SET LISTS.

THANK YOU TO THE ROBERT GRACE TRUST FOR COLLECTING MONEY FOR CHILDREN IN AFRICA WITH HIV, A CAUSE CLOSE TO JEB'S HEART AND TO ALL WHO DONATED.

THANKYOU TO CLIFFORD SLAPPER, MO NAZAM, KEVIN REYNOLDS, ASHA ELFENBEIN, ERIC ROBINSON AND ADRIAN YORK FOR THE MUSIC AND TO JACKIE RAWE, SHAZ ROCKET, MARCUS MALONE, ZEETEAH MASSIAH, SYLVIA MASON JAMES , BEVERLEY SKEETE , GINA FOSTER, MARY PEARCE, GARY BARDOUILLE, FRANKE PHAROAH, VICTORIA WILSON JAMES, GEORGE MACLEAN, EARL OKIN, REBECCA WALKER JONES AND TO STEVE BARNACLE FOR LENDING HIS GUITAR TO HER, DIANA RAYMOND, SHILOH CLARKE, MERLE FORBES, ANITA KELSEY, ROY HAMILTON, LINDA DUGGAN, RICCI P WASHINGTON, ISABEL ROBERTS, SAM BATT, ANGIE BROWN AND ANDREW WOOD-MITCHELL FOR SINGING. YOU WERE ALL AMAZING.

THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO CAME DOWN TONIGHT AND MADE THIS SUCH A MEMORABLE OCCASION.

THANKS GOES MAINLY TO JEB FOR GIVING US SO MUCH AND FOR BRINGING US ALL TOGETHER.

I HOPE THAT TONIGHT HAS BEEN A POSITIVE AND HEALING EXPERIENCE AND THAT FOR MOST OF US WHO WERE NOT ABLE TO GET TO LA WHEN JEB PASSED THAT THIS HAS HELPED YOU ALL IN SOME WAY.

At the end we sang Lean On me by Bill Withers to close Max's blip shows us all singing together.

Then those of us who were able went to the upstairs Bar and danced till about 3, so amazing to see everybody again, it was as if no time had passed.

RIP Jeb you are much missed and very much appreciated for everything you contributed to music and so many careers but mostly for your kindness and humour.

xxxxxx

Jeb singing Evergreen Tree, my favourite song of his, I sang it last night, very emotional for me.