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From: jeanne@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Def Leppard's Rick Allen
Message-ID: <3098@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 12:20:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 12:20:51 1985
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Reply-To: jeanne@ucla-cs.UUCP (Jeanne Douglas)
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In article <597@aluxe.UUCP> jmd@aluxe.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, Pa.) writes:
>
>The other day I heard that Rick Allen (Def Lep's drummer) was involved in an
>automobile accident which severed his left arm.  The last report I heard was 
>that doctors performed micro-surgery to reattach his arm.  Has anyone heard
>anymore about this?

The accident was New Year's Eve.  Allen was thrown
from his Corvette.  They did re-attach his arm;
unfortunately, by Friday, the arm had become
infected and had to be amputated.

If anyone is interested in sending a card to him,
the address is:

Rick Allen
89 Saltergate
Chesterfield
England S41 0US