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The Gone But Not Forgotten RIP Thread
R.I.P. Piper Laurie, actress I remember from two horror movies, Carrie and Ruby. 91 years old, good age!
Angela Bruschini, guitarist with Bristol bands The Blue Aeroplanes and Massive Attack, aged just 62 :-(https://www.theguardian.com/music/202...
Kevin Walker, Killing Joke's guitarist, in Prague, aged 64, following a stroke.
RIP, I've got dvd with this excellent intense gig,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0n1Q...
live starts around 36 min.
The Grim Reaper has been busy todayHenry Kissinger (100)
Alistair Darling (70)
Dean Sullivan (68) actor in Brookside
Shane MacGowan (65)
That's at 13:00hrs. Watch this space.
Wow! What a haul! It was Shane MacGowan's name that most affected me. A true original.
Yes, ‘A fairytale of New York’ is pretty much the only Christmas song I find bearable …Just had a message to say my comment was too short to post. First for me, that.
Isabella wrote: "Yes, ‘A fairytale of New York’ is pretty much the only Christmas song I find bearable …Just had a message to say my comment was too short to post. First for me, that."
Oddly enough it's one of the few Christmas songs that I can't stand, yet to find anyone who agrees with me though.
TheFoe wrote: "Isabella wrote: "Yes, ‘A fairytale of New York’ is pretty much the only Christmas song I find bearable …Just had a message to say my comment was too short to post. First for me, that."
Oddly eno..."
I'm not that overly keen on it myself, but i wouldn't say that i loathe that song. I prefer Jona Lewie's Stop The Cavalary myself. :)
Fair enough. At least it’s not Santa Claus is coming to town!
I've always liked it, probably because I always liked both The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. It took me ages to wean my youngest daughter off Ronan Keating's version but now she says it's her second favourite Christmas song after Ron Sexsmith's Maybe This Christmas - I think I've done my work well!
Tim wrote: "Here's a good 'unhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2gxE..."
oh yes!
Don't care much of Pogues, but there is something special about MacGowan's laugh,
khhhhh...khhhh...khhhh....
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Talking xmassy music, don't own any records (and don't care much), but don't mind hearing them everywhre you goin' during and before festivities period, gives me good a vibe. No particular likes or dislikes.oops, I've got one in my car! Called RiffRaff, german ac/dc soundalikes, I know I have annoyed you before but anyway, here we go,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrROO...
RIP Benjamin Zephaniah, couldn't believe he was 65 when he died, I thought he was in his forties.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nMG...
Ryan O'Neal, actor, aged 82.Starred in the likes of Love Story, Paper Moon, Barry Lyndon and The Driver.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023...
Farewell Andre Braugher, aged 61, after a short illness.He was a great favourite of mine in shows like Homicide: Life On The Street, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Fight.
Farewell David Soul, aged 80. While I wasn't a fan of either his singing or his acting, he was definitely an 80s icon.
Val wrote: "Farewell David Soul, aged 80. While I wasn't a fan of either his singing or his acting, he was definitely an 80s icon."And unfortunately also was a wife beater.
Maybe that's why I wasn't a fan - must have been by osmosis because I didn't know that.
Sorry Val I didn't mean for my last post to come across as condescending. I hope it wasn't taken that way.
Not at all Nick. I never liked the bloke so I wasn't disenchanted by the news. I did rather like Franz Beckenbauer so sad to see he's gone. I'm starting to feel my age as all my near contemporaries fall off the perch. Got to be expected!
Yeah I liked Franz too, one of the best.
The legend of British hard rock, leader, guitarist and sole songwriter of Magnum over all their 23 albums, Mr Tony Clarkin, has passed at 77. I am very sad. He leaves us with a new Magnum album to enjoy, expected next week. Legend is no understatement.
Annie Nightingale.My dad always listened to her radio show.
Shocked she was 83, I thought her in her sixties.
I used to listen to her radio show! I never thought she was ten years older than me!
I used to listen to Annie Nightingale too....she lived to a much older age than i thought she was!A little belated this one, but a mention to Welsh rugby legend John Peter Rhys Williams, affectionately known as JPR, who passed away on the 8th January aged 74.
https://apnews.com/article/jpr-willia...
A thoroughly nice man, distinctive through his playing style, long hair and sideburns, and ferociously competitive & fearless. Williams captained Wales and Bridgend, winning 55 caps, three Grand Slams and six Triple Crowns for his country. And in 1977, JPR was appointed an MBE for services to Rugby. In 1973, JPR qualified as a orthopedic surgeon. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1980. In 1986 he was appointed a consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.
RIP JPR
Norman Jewison, Canadian filmmaker, aged 97. He directed such films as 'In the Heat of the Night' (1967), 'Fiddler on the Roof' (1971), and 'Moonstruck' (1986); for all of which he was nominated as best director at the Oscars. Among his other films were 'The Cincinnati Kid' (1965), 'The Thomas Crown Affair' (1968), 'Rollerball' (1975) and 'A Soldier's Story' (1984)https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024...
Pluto Shervington, Jamaican reggae musician, R.I.P. died last week aged 73https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.c...
R.I.P. Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett has died. [aged 77]Bassman for The Wailers
https://jamaica.loopnews.com/content/...
Barry John, the Welsh rugby legend, has died aged 79. He died peacefully in hospital on Sunday.
Wayne Kramer, frontman of the legendary MC5 passed at a respectable 75.
On Friday 2nd February, aged 77, Ian Lavender ....... stupid boy.
Country singer Toby Keith has died aged 62, of stomach cancer.
Damo Suzuki, legendary former singer with Can, died on Friday aged 74. He had been fighting colon cancer, but no cause of death has been stated.https://www.theguardian.com/music/202...
Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2 presenter, aged just 69. I can hardly believe this as it was only on Sunday that he did 'Pick Of The Pops'; at lunchtime and a pre-recorded Valentine's Day special of his Love Songs show. I've no idea if POTP was live or recorded.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainm...
The legendary and inimitable Mr Mojo Nixon, hillbilly punk and eternal outlaw, passed February 7th at an obscenely youthful 66.I thoroughly recommend his collaboration with Jello Biafra
Prairie Home Invasion
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Malcom Holcombe. A favourite of mine.RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1EH5...
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Tim wrote: "Eric Carmen, aged 74.https://www.theguardian.com/music/202..."
What a shame.. He had a great voice. Love "Hungry Eyes".
Gerry Conway, drummer in Fotheringhay andFairport Convention, among others, aged 76. :-(
RIP Clarence "Frogman" HenryRhythm and blues singer and pianist
Died 7th April ~ aged 87
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...
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Sprung to fame as Illya Kuryakin in 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E' before going on to roles in 'Colditz' and 'Sapphire And Steel' culminating with spending twenty years (!) playing Donald 'Ducky' Mallard in NCIS.
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