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RIP Claude Nobs

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  • 11-01-2013 12:14pm
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    Savman
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    Very sad, the man behind the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival.
    The founder of the Montreux jazz festival has died after several weeks in a coma after a skiing accident.

    Claude Nobs, 76, launched the summer festival in 1967 while working at the Swiss resort's tourism office, attracting some of the world's biggest stars, including Miles Davis, Ray Charles and Prince, to perform there.

    He was referred to as "Funky Claude" in the song Smoke on the Water by rock band Deep Purple, written about a fire that burned down a Montreux casino during a Frank Zappa concert in 1971.

    Swiss-born Nobs was injured while cross-country skiing on Christmas Eve near his home in the village of Caux overlooking Montreux and Lake Geneva, the festival's secretary-general, Mathieu Jaton, said on Monday.


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/11/montreux-jazz-festival-founder-dies


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    mike65
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    Ah jasus one of the great characters of the last 50 years or so, as mentioned above its through Smoke on the Water that I first heard about Funky Claude though being a teenager it took a while before I linked the name with the person of course!

    Here is Claude performing with Deep Purple in 2006.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bieE2-pckjs


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    Grid.
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    RIP Claude:(


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