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The Guardian - UK
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Owen Jones

Peter Millson obituary

Peter Millson on stage at a Jazz Butcher gig in March 1984 at the Kolingsborg club in Stockholm.
Peter Millson on stage at a Jazz Butcher gig in March 1984 at the Kolingsborg club in Stockholm. Photograph: Heidi Rosen

My friend Peter Millson, who has taken his own life aged 66 after a serious deterioration in his health, was a singer-songwriter and guitarist who operated under the nom de plume of Max Eider.

In 1982 he formed, with his friend Pat Fish, the Jazz Butcher, an on-off Indie-pop band that continued for 40 years, and of which I was the drummer. They recorded several albums, including their breakthrough LP, A Scandal in Bohemia, in 1984, and went on tours of Europe and the US.

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