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Status Quo star John Coghlan has shared an emotional {photograph} of tragic Linda Nolan along with her late husband Brian taken at his wedding ceremony.
Drummer John, 78, posted the image taken at his wedding ceremony to spouse Gillie writing: “So sad to hear of the death of Linda Nolan (Hudson), here on the left (with her beloved Brian) at our wedding in 1982.”
Linda died on Wednesday aged 65 after she contracted double pneumonia, requiring her to be rushed to hospital.
An announcement from the star’s supervisor, Dermot McNamara, confirmed that the star had handed away along with her sisters by her facet. Linda had been residing with an incurable however treatable most cancers earlier than her demise, however she had beforehand misplaced two individuals to the illness, her sister Bernie in 2013 and earlier than that, her husband, Brian Hudson, in 2007.
The couple tied the knot on May 7 with John turning up late to the ceremony at Marylebone Road Registry Office after being taken for a pre-nuptials lunch at Claridges the place “one bottle of champagne followed another”.
Linda and Brian have been bemused company together with different members of The Nolan sisters who mingled with Roxy Music and Coronation stars together with Geoff Hughes who performed layabout Eddie Yates as Gille was pressured to summon Quo’s chauffeur to drive her round London and discover the lacking bridegroom earlier than whisking him again to tie the knot.
The subsequent reception was staged within the Art Deco room on the swanky The Savoy Hotel the place an aged pianist was commandeered and handed sheet music of Status Quo hits to try to play on his grand piano.
Linda and Brian had themselves married the earlier yr, with Linda’s sisters serving as bridesmaids. The pair first met in 1977 when he served because the tour supervisor for the Nolan Sisters, and rapidly turned inseparable. Brian sadly died on the age of 60 in 2007, because of pores and skin most cancers and liver failure however they remained good mates of the Coghlans.
Former music trade PA Gillie, to whom John has now been married to for 42 years, described her wedding ceremony gown as “the full Princess Diana-Scarlett O’Hara frock” and had demanded the marriage be held in London regardless that the couple had moved to what the described as “the least rock’n’roll
Place in Britain” – The Isle of Man.
The wedding ceremony got here simply months after founding member John give up the chart-topping rockers on the eve of their 20th anniversary celebrations – and the fallout meant that Quo stars Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt snubbed their invites while bass participant Alan Lancaster declined as he had moved to Australia.
John’s resolution meant he missed out on being part of historical past as a member of the primary rock band to carry out a live performance for royalty when the Rockin’ All Over The World hitmakers staged a particular live performance for the longer term King’s then fledgling Prince’s Trust charity which was attended by the person himself.
He was changed on the drum stool by Pete Kircher earlier than the band quickly break up up in 1984.
John informed the Daily Express in 2022 that he was “very hurt” to not have been invited to carry out at Live Aid in July 1985 however he lastly returned to the Quo drum stool in 2013 for a reunion tour of the unique ‘Frantic Four line-up which concluded the following year.
Francis Rossi remains the last surviving original member of Status Quo but last year’s hufely profitable world tour seems to have been their final with the band lately auctioning off a lot of their stage tools and Rossi telling the Daily Express he doesn’t envisage the band ever touring once more.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2001733/status-quo-star-linda-nolan