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The Gone But Not Forgotten RIP Thread
We had a repeat of the BBC Front Row Late: Series 3..9 'When Mary Beard met Clive.James'. Don't know if you'll be able to get it, Val. Can't find it on YT.https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...
Geo-blocking is really annoying! I thought most national broadcasters were doing away with it. You go to all the bother of registering on the BBC site - age, date of birth, email, password, etc; are told to go to your email account to verify your registration (nothing there); go back to the BBC site which now says it is not available outside the UK! Could have told me that upfront. Thankfully BBC radio is not affected in this way.
Thanks for the link to Jonathan Miller, Val. I’ll watch it all again with great pleasure.
US composer Irving Burgie, who helped to popularise Caribbean music with hit songs like Day-O, has died aged 95.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVH...
Farewell Greedy Smith (63), much loved frontman and fun founder of Mental As Anything. He had a heart attack while driving in Sydney. The Mentals have been part of the Oz music scene for so long we are guilty of taking them for granted but you wouldn't meet a more professional outfit of hard-working entertainers.From an obituaryby writer Mark Mordue:
...someone engaged with the world around him, plugging into people with enthusiasm and knowledge. I’d lapsed into stereotyping him as a musical comedian; I was reminded he was a serious and passionate artist. ... Greedy and company signalled an original slant on Australian music with songs like The Nips Are Getting Bigger, If You Leave Me (Can I Come Too), and Berzerk Warriors. Greedy himself penned Too Many Times and Live it Up, and co-wrote with Mombassa what is arguably the Mentals’ greatest song, Spirit Got Lost (Now Something is Missing). Clownish and friendly, the Mentals absurdity lightly masked a romantic and lonesome emotional quality that for me was most strongly evoked by Greedy. Something about the man and the music exuded kindness in a dimension that felt like it almost hurt. Greedy’s Live it Up would become Mental As Anything’s biggest hit, both here and in Britain. It’s not so much a party anthem as an appeal to a woman to not let someone put them down, to take heart in who they are and the friendship on offer around them. It could, of course, be just as easily sung to a man. Reading though the press clippings today, I was struck by an interview where Greedy likewise reflected on his sometimes difficult, but enduring friendship with bandmate Martin Plaza: “Music is a kind of social glue,” Greedy said, “and it’s not a bad glue to get stuck on yourself.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4EW...
A somewhat polar opposite to this thread's intentions...but i'd thought i'd post a positive notice in here for a change. Which is:One of the last of Hollywood's Golden era actors, Kirk Douglas..has reached an antonishing milestone birthday today....he's 103...today!!! Spartacus is still alive!
103?! Good grief... i thought this guy died years ago! 103! Sheesh.
I wonder what his secret his..besides his millions in the bank?
René Auberjonois, died 8th December of cancer. Actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Chief of Security Odo, on Star Trek Deep Space 9. He made his name appearing in several Robert Altman movies, beginning with M*A*S*H (though he turned down reprising his role in the TV series), then Brewster Mccloud, McCabe & Mrs Miller, and Images.
Sad to hear that David Bellamy has died. He was a brilliant presenter, friendly, entertaining, and extremely knowledgeable about pretty much everything. A real shame that generations of children never got a chance to see this great man in action.
Compost Corner!A man who could be funny or serious as the occasion demanded.
TheFoe wrote: "Sad to hear that David Bellamy has died. He was a brilliant presenter, friendly, entertaining, and extremely knowledgeable about pretty much everything. A real shame that generations of children ne..."Aw....not Bellamy. As a child, i used to love watching his enthusiastic style of presenting, getting 'down and dirty' with it on his botany progs!
Unique guy. it's a shame how he was treated by the Beeb and the conservation groups he was patrons of for decades..just because his views 20 years ago regarding Global Warming didn't chime with the broadcasting corporation.
RIP DB
Marie Fredriksson, singer with Roxette, died aged 61 on the 9th December after a 17 year battle with cancer. She had a seizure in her bathroom in 2002 and was found to have a brain tumour and was given only 25% chance of surviving. Somehow she managed to keep performing until 2016 when she had to retire.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/201...
Sad news. I saw Roxette here a few years ago. They wouldn't have been my first choice for a music gig but I went with a friend who was a huge fan. They put on an amazing show in front of 10,000 devoted fans.
Farewell Martin Peters. I've written before how I got to know many of the West Ham players as a 12 year old when they toured Rhodesia in 1962. Players like Peters, Hurst, Boyce, Sealey and Sissons were just boys themselves under Ron Greenwood's management. They were all very kind to me, although I was in love with their Scots goalie Laurie Leslie who also died this year. That generation is almost gone.
Very sad loss to irish folk music on 18th December - Arty McGlynn. An amazing guitarist it is hard to overestimate his influence on traditional guitar playing across the world. His drop D tuning -where the bass string was tuned down from E, thus DADGBE is now widely used as well as his rhythmic punctuation in the accompaniment of jigs, reels and songs. Thanks for the inspiration Arty.
the genius alasdair gray, on the day after his 85th birthday,bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-we...
'lanark' easily makes my top ten of all time novels.
Tech XXIII wrote: "the genius alasdair gray, on the day after his 85th birthday,bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-we...
'lanark' easily makes my top ten of all time novels."
Very sad. Even though he had been ill, I had assumed he was immortal.
i think he probably is.coincidentally, jnr had asked for and received both PURGATORY: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray and HELL: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray as part of his xmas - no, i don't always give presents i can later scadge a loan of!
Neil Innes, writer of many of Monty Python's ditties and leader of the Rutles, who I saw mere months ago at a poorly attended but joyous and wit-laden show at Grimsby Central Hall.https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainme...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt4e...
always enjoyed his work. seriously tho', this is probably the most heard piece of his canon in my house (and i still find myself singing it on occasion),https://youtu.be/TsBRMhaKPps
News just coming out on the sad death of Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist with Rush, who died on January 7th of brain cancer after a fight lasting several years.https://www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...
RIP
Tim wrote: "News just coming out on the sad death of Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist with Rush, who died on January 7th of brain cancer after a fight lasting several years.https://www.rollingstone.com/music..."
Oh no! :-(
Really shocked. I wasn't up to date with news about Rush, so didn't know he was ill. I know he lost his daughter then his wife in fairly rapid succession 15-20 years ago but didn't know about his own health.Fantastic drummer. All my top drummers would be jazz men, but Neil Peart had a foot in that world, too: his heroes were Buddy Rich & Gene Krupa.
RIP
Gordon wrote: "Fantastic drummer. All my top drummers would be jazz men, but Neil Peart had a foot in that world, too: his heroes were Buddy Rich & Gene Krupa.RIP"
Absolutely, Gordon. He was immense.
"He was immense"just a pity he was in rush!
Basil Brush sidekick and Yes, Minister actor Derek Fowlds has died of pneumonia at the age of 82.
David Onley, an american folk singer-songwriter, with more than 20 solo records to his name, & collaborations a plenty, and wrote for artists like Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Steve Young and others, died from a sudden heart attack, during mid performance in Florida, on Jan 18th, aged 71. Apparently he went very peacefully & gracefully, pausing briefly mid song to apologise to his fans...and then gently faded away, still sitting in his chair and holding his guitar.
Gordon wrote: "Basil Brush sidekick and Yes, Minister actor Derek Fowlds has died of pneumonia at the age of 82."Also of Heartbeat as the cantankerous Oscar Blaketon. I'd forgotten he was one time Mr Brush's sidekick though.
theDuke wrote: "David Onley, an american folk singer-songwriter, with more than 20 solo records to his name, & collaborations a plenty, and wrote for artists like Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Steve Young and ot..."I have a couple of David Olney's albums, I always thought he deserved to be much more well known. The manner of his death was so touching.
Cue the song... Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77He always seemed the nicest most down to earth Python.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainm...
Sera69 wrote: "Cue the song... Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77He always seemed the nicest most down to earth Python.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainm..."
A very sad loss of a true comedic genius.
Sera69 wrote: "...most down to earth Python."Except when blowing most of the Meaning of Life budget on the "Every Sperm is Sacred" number. My favourite part of any Python movie.
Nicholas Parsons died today aged 96, in hospital after a short illness.
Sera69 wrote: "2020 is a bit shit :("And, for posters of a certain age, whose idols are a little older than themselves, so were the last few years and so, inevitably, will the coming years prove to be. If you're 20, your idols are more likely to see you through to later adulthood, drug/booze/suicidal deaths notwithstanding.
Not many classical buffs here I don't think, but was sad to see legendary German lieder singer Peter Schreier has died - on Christmas Day last year actually, but was only in the paper we have today.Schubert: Gute Nacht (from Winterreise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZb6a...
Bummer..i knew i shoulda kept me mouth shut..he's gone folks...Sparticus has finally snuffed it....at a 103 years old yesterday. What an age. Kirk Douglas, was one of of the last surviving 'mega stars' of Hollywood's Golden Age of actors, received three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom; died peacefully at his home in Beverly Hills, of natural causes.
Rest in Peace, Micheal Douglas's dad.
PS: just checked the font of all knowledge that is wikipedia....there's still 492 other 'golden age' (1927-1959) actors, born between 1910 upto those who debuted in the late '50's, mostly lesser known, but some famous names like Sidney Poitier & Honor Blackman, now both in thier 90s.
The oldest living actor now....is somebody called Norman Lloyd, who starred in 3 movies: Saboteur (1942), Spellbound (1945) & Limelight (1952). He is currently 105!
And the oldest living female actor (2nd on the list), is Olivia de Havilland, who starred some well known classics; Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), Dodge City (1939), To Each His Own (1946), The Dark Mirror (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), The Heiress (1949), My Cousin Rachel (1952). She is currently 103.
Are we sure it's him and not someone claiming to be him?(sry, too soon?) :P
Sera69 wrote: "Are we sure it's him and not someone claiming to be him?(sry, too soon?) :P"
Boom!
Sera69 wrote: "Are we sure it's him and not someone claiming to be him?(sry, too soon?) :P"
Brilliant :-)
Ah...i just got it...an olde Sparticus joke!
I’m sad to hear of the death at the age of 78 of Joseph Shabalala, founder and guiding force of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. He had a wonderful voice. I saw them performing live a couple of times with Joseph at the centre of the stage, a warm and engaging presence. Paul Simon opens ‘Under African Skies’ with a verse about him:
Joseph's face was black as night
The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked
By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
And he walked his days
Under African skies
I saw them in Harrogate many years ago. Joseph in particular, with his beautiful voice, had a terrific rapport with the audience.
oh ... wowyup, screenshotting that for posterity...
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Clive James: A Tribute (30 mins)
Friends and colleagues remember Clive James. Featuring Michael Parkinson, Martin Amis, Eric Idle, Simon Schama, Barry Humphries, Tom Keneally, Howard Jacobson, Phillip Adams and Tim Minchin. Presented by Kerry O'Brien.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/clive-j...
and a 2013 hour-long interview with Clive, conducted by Kerry O'Brien:
Clive James: The Kid From Kogarah
In Memory of Clive James, revisit his candid conversation with Kerry O'Brien recorded in 2013. Clive looks back on his remarkable career, growing up in Australia and making it big in the UK, as well as his biggest challenges.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/clive-j...
Great viewing. I would love to see some Jonathan Miller tributes. I well remember that series about him directing opera - "Jonathan Miller's Opera Works". He gave an amazing insight into the works and their interpretation. It looks like most of the episodes are on the net but you have to log in through an academic institution:
https://search.alexanderstreet.com/pr...