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"I guess you could say I have a call." (Sylvia Plath)

An underground adventure.

© Daisy Dundead

27/03/2026

"I'm always trying to communicate to other lost souls out there."

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Billy Mackenzie

Singer-songwriter. Mischief-maker. "William".

Born on this day

27 March 1957

Buried: Balgay Cemetery, Dundee

Date of visitation: 22 January 2017

08/01/2026

"Without a song, the day would never end."

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Elvis Presley

Born on this day

8 January 1935

Buried: Graceland, Memphis

Date of visitation: 19 November 2025

This one was special 👑🖤👑

Thank you Ian Mac & Gloria McIntyre!

12/08/2025

Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to Endless Night.

From "Auguries of Innocence"

William Blake

Died on this day
12 August 1897

Original site of burial: Bunhill Fields, London

Date of visitation: 13 April 2024

Photo: Double exposure of the Blake grave and an image of Jim Morrison, who borrowed the words of the poem for this song.

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18/07/2025

Take my hand and I'll show you what was and will be..

Born on this day: Closer

Joy Division's second album, which featured the Appiani family tomb in Genoa on its cover.

This is an alternate view of the tomb featured on the album released 45 years ago today.

Place of burial: Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno

Date of visitation: 30 September 2018

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03/07/2025

"Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality.

"If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality.

"You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

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Jim Morrison
Died on this day
3 July 1971

Buried: Pere Lachaise, Paris

Date of visitation: 8 December 2018

18/05/2025

Me, seeing me this time
Hoping for something else 🖤

Ian Curtis

Died on this day 45 years ago
18 May 1980

Memorial stone: Macclesfield Crematorium

Date of visitation: 15 May 2022

14/05/2025

“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”

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Rita Hayworth

Actress. Redhead. Mother.

Died on this day

14 May 1987

Buried: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Culver City, California

Date of visitation: 19 April 2018

20/04/2025

"Despair has its own calms."

Bram Stoker

Book-keeper. Theatre Manager. Creator of Count Dracula

Died on this day

20 April, 1912

Date of visitation: 3 August 2017

Place of remains: Golders Green Crematorium, London

15/04/2025

"It's strange, I felt less lonely when I didn't know you."

Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialist

Died on this day
15 April 1980

Buried: Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris

Date of visitation: 5 July 2018

05/04/2025

"If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile."

Kurt Cobain

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Rockstar. Artist. Feminist. 27 Club member.

Died on this day

5 April 1994

Kurt’s Memorial bench, Viretta Park, Seattle

Date of visitation: 14 April 2018

01/04/2025

"Art is a language that speaks to the soul."

Max Ernst

Expressionist, Surrealist, Dadaist and inventor of frottage

Born on this day
2 April 1891

Buried: Pere Lachaise, Paris

Date of visitation: 13 November 2018

31/03/2025

"The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."

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Charlotte Brontë

Novelist. Poet. Sister

Died on this day
31 March 1855

Buried: Bronte family vault, St Michael and All Angels, Haworth Yorkshire.

Date of visitation: 8 January 2017

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