[kj] Ian MacKaye clears up death rumors

[Tim Bucknall]

wierd,
remember those Dave Grohl Death stories a while back?
people were ringing his "widow" to offer condolences


On 03/10/2007, LONESTYLE at aol.com <LONESTYLE at aol.com> wrote:

>

>  I do not find it  funny at all! I have lost far too many people and I am

> almost 40 so I find this childish and disrespectful! Death is not funny at

> all! I knew it was fake when I saw it.

>

> Fugazi was not touring for I get updates emailed from Dischord news now

> and then and they have been not together for some years. Fuckin people are

> just plain stupid to make that up!

>

> ~LB

>

>

>  a message dated 10/2/2007 5:53:43 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

> bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net writes:

>

>

> http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/critics/blog/2007/10/ian_mackaye_is_alive_elvis_is.html

> A phone rings at 6:08 p.m. in Arlington, Va. A 45-year-old man picks up.

> The caller doesn't even have the chance to offer a greeting.

>

> "I am still alive," reports Ian MacKaye, the frontman of such punk acts

> as Minor Threat and Fugazi, and the founder of Washington's Dischord

> Records.

>

> This would not be news except that The Sun and apparently many other

> organizations had been told that MacKaye was, in fact, dead. We were

> told that he died Monday night at Baltimore's St. Agnes Hospital. A call

> to the hospital found no evidence of such a patient. We followed up with

> calls to Dischord (left a message) and to MacKaye's home.

>

> "I am happy to report that I am not dead," says MacKaye. He and the

> record company had been blasted with calls, he says, after premature

> reports of his death were posted on MySpace and Wikipedia. He says he

> hasn't been able to find the MySpace reference, but had the Wikipedia

> posting removed -- and then re-removed, once someone reinserted the

> false news.

> >

> >

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