Sad News: Ralph Forster RIP

[MilanS]

Sad to report the death of original Coventry Northern Soul Dj, Ralph Forster, on 25/9/22. RIP sir.

 

 

[Jules]

That is sad indeed,  We have known Ralph for  a good few years, always saw him at Nuneaton, Warwick, Banbury, Rugby and many other venues around the country. A genuine nice bloke with some great stories to tell.

RIP Ralph , we enjoyed your company.

Jules and Sandra

[Raym]

Well said Jules. Nice guy, always up for a chat when i saw him out and about. 
RIP. 
Ray

[Wiganer1]

Woke up to the very sad news that my friend and fellow dj Ralph Forster had passed away

Met Ralph while I was DJing many years ago in coventry and he came up to me and started talking about when he used to dj In Coventry way before Pete waterman and soon a lasting friendship developed about records soul music and life in general

Ralphs love of the music and his gentleman approach to life shone throughout and you never ran out of things to talk about

Ralph supplied the equipment at the Coop soul nights for the first few years and gave me load's of advice and he also dj'd for me for most of those early days delivering great sets and always something different

Managed to catch up with Ralph at Coventry last November and told him how much I respected him and so glad I did he was a lovely man

My heart goes out to his wife chris and his children who he always talked about every time we met.

RIP Ralph thanks for the memories chats and advice. Coventry and the soul scene has lost one of it's best

God bless until we meet again

Mark freeman

[Ian Stacey]

That's a shock  new him. Well!! DJ ed  at the co-op  opened the night quite a lot which was appreciated by people he had a great collection  of rare records  .Good audio tec as well  .we solved quite a few times in the early Nuneaton days .. 

[Lionelonthevinyl]

Well said Mr Freeman, a lovely tribute....I met Ralph at one of your great co\op nights moaning about the dj,s messing about with the sound system!! He was stood at the back next to me...I said  'it sounds great to me'...he was ' no it's all wrong' ...bless him, he never stopped moaning but he was there at the start and super knowledgeable. It was the start of a friendship, and still txt each other till the last few months before his passing, remember him playing 'The Drifters ' Pour your little heart out ' at the co/op and cleared the floor....first time I'd heard it and not sure about it... turned into a massive play!! Also heard him play 'living in the past' the flip of fireman by vala regan at a rare under played night, had massive interest as no one had listened to it fab tune.....he was a one off, love him or not, he knew his stuff!! Thank you for all the chats and your lesson to me and Boff when we dj,d  twice at pure soul!! Rest in soul my friend.....Rob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Happy Feet]

Ralph , RIP mate, had the pleasure of Ralph's company away from the scene ,we both played darts at The Bishopsgate Club , on the Foleshill Rd in Coventry , he once was DJing whilst we played darts at a Bobby George charity evening and as I did my walk on to play Bobby he played my favourite Lou Pride I'm Comin Home , it didn't work 2-2 final leg I was waiting to go back for a 96 out shot after 12 darts and Bobby finished the 127 he needed to beat me , gutted but a great night , even a kind word from Bobby didn't make it any better .

As mentioned previously Ralph , a perfect gent lovely company, some great stories of days gone by will be sorely missed , love to all his family

[MilanS]

Funeral service to take place on the 27th of October at 2:15pm in Cannon Hill Chapel, Canley Crematorium, Coventry.