Man about town and the music world Ian "Molly" Meldrum is in a critical condition in hospital tonight after falling off a ladder at his Richmond,Melbourne home.

For a while he ran a nightspot in Soi 4 at the old Rome club site called Molly Jump.Not a successful venture perhaps because the owners preferred to court a non- gay crowd.

Molly himself was a constant in Bangkok for decades and most would feel affection or amusement for him.As a music reporter he has close connections to the superstars but welcomed everybody to banter at bars,dance parties or wherever.

Hope he pulls through but older men on ladders is a recipe for disaster.

check his progress on The Age online.

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[quote=dorothy dix;684449]Man about town and the music world Ian "Molly" Meldrum is in a critical condition in hospital tonight after falling off a ladder at his Richmond,Melbourne home.

For a while he ran a nightspot in Soi 4 at the old Rome club site called Molly Jump.Not a successful venture perhaps because the owners preferred to court a non- gay crowd." quote

Molly is an Aussie music icon. A lovable Queen - I think he was also a partner in Balcony at one stage. . He's the 2nd ladder accident of some-one I know this year. The first one ran one of Sydney's biggest clubs "Home" disco (Simon Page) and is now incoherent and a shadow of his former self. Very sad.

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Larry Spry, who has been Meldrum's friend since 1964, said Meldrum was in an induced coma with broken ribs, a possible punctured lung and swelling on the brain after splitting his head open between 5pm and 6pm.

He said he did not fall from a ladder but from his spa, which is several metres above the ground.

"We don't know what exactly happened. I think he was putting up decorations for his Christmas party, which was next Sunday," Mr Spry said. He is 65.

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Molly's Jump was were Balcony is now, not the ex Rome Club site next door, and while Molly had his own custom Balcony t-shirt which he famously wore on TV in Oz I don't know he was ever a Balcony owner! though he probably deserved at least a part-ownership of Tawan given his patronage of the bar!

Simon Page's only relationship with Home was selling the then owner the rights to the name of a by then defunct club in Pitt Street and a fairly out-of-date database of teenage clubbers which proved to be of dubious value

and I think Molly will certainly be missed more in BKK or in Oz than Simon ever will!

bkkguy

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Agree 100% with that !! S.P was one of the most un-pleasant characters I ever had the mis-fortune to do business with. (and he was a closet queen !)

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In case you can't place him here is the man with the ever-present hat.The sacred Akubra.

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