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Bobby Timmons, who has once been in Art Blakey’s Messenger and wrote songs like Moanin’, died at 38 years, without getting anywhere near the fame the people he worked for got, like Cannonball Adderly or Art Blakey. He briefly touched on fame when he wrote Moanin’ while playing with Art Blakey. He was one of the people that almost got famous, but never quite made it due to a lack of effort or stamina or desire. His liver gave way after he had treated her poorly with drugs and alcohol.

These non-famous people and their disdain for fame at all. Why bother? And still there was this nagging feeling of having underachieved, of being cheated out of the fame you deserve: By bad luck, by envy, by a lack of recognition – when the real reason has only been a lack of conviction in the idea of achieving something.

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