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Max Bell

"I couldn't go to the funeral itself": The strange tale of Rod de'Ath, the drummer who came back from the dead

Rod de'Ath in 2012.

When the great Irish bluesman Rory Gallagher died in 1995, many obituaries reported that his former drummer, Rod de’Ath had also passed away a few years earlier, victim of anything from a violent mugging to a drug deal gone wrong. 

But then de’Ath surprised everyone by turning up at Rory’s memorial service, very much alive, albeit blind in one eye. 

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