Woolly Wolstenholme R.I.P.

[ChrisX]

For me, as a big Barclay James Harvest fan, this is a very very sad day:

//http://www.bjharvest.co.uk/

It is with great sadness that John Lees' Barclay James Harvest announces the passing of Woolly Wolstenholme. In recent weeks Woolly's mental health had taken a turn for the worse and sadly he took his own life on Monday 13th December 2010. As you can imagine, John, Craig, Jez and Kevin and everyone associated with the band are stunned that a shining light of Barclay James Harvest is no longer with us. In this difficult time our thoughts are with Woolly's partner, Sue. We would ask all of Woolly's fans to remember his incredible contribution to popular music and his unique presence on stage.

Book Of Condolences: //http://www.bjhforum.co.uk/woolly/guestbook.cgi

I am very grateful I got to see the John Lees' Barclay James Harvest last year both in Berlin and Essen (Germany) with Woolly Wolstenholme on the keyboards. He was one of those rare keyboard-players who really perfected the art of playing the Mellotron (yep, he was still playing a real one and it was in perfect shape and sounded glorious). Barclay James Harvest never really recovered from his departure after the XII album IMHO, so I was very pleased to see him reunite again with guitarist John Lees in recent years.

[rogerg]

definitely very sad, and a real loss.

[ecky p]

Only last week I was looking thro some old tour programs and found BJH Octoberon 1976
Wooly and Pete Bardens from Camel were both great keyboard players...sad day indeed.