RIP Eduard Khil

the groutch

Eduard Khil, the original troll, has died of a stroke aged 77

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM

SafeSurfer

Good night sweet prince

Dudess

Are you really that upset OP?

biko

http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/trololo-dead-stroke-stpetersburg-898/

TeddyTedson

I thought from the title this was going to be about that twilight film with the dog and the emo fighting over that girl.

mikom

the groutch wrote: »

Eduard Khil, the original troll, has died of a stroke aged 77

Found dead by a neighbor........... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Chavways

Dudess wrote: »

Are you really that upset OP?

Are you not?

This man is like the father of the internet.

Chuck Stone

It was only a matter of time really.

A sad day for the internet this is.

RIP sweet prince of the trolls.

stovelid

The hypothetical zany student c+nt part of me is profoundly devastated.

Hande hoche!

Too young.

Lionel Messy

RIP Ed, whoever you are.

Rented Mule

the groutch wrote: »

Eduard Khil, the original troll, has died of a stroke aged 77

How do we know that he is dead and not just ****ing with us ?

BeatDGodM0D

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

this is some kind of meta-troll right?

My Master.

Sonics2k

R.I.P. sweet scary looking man.

Is it wrong I've actually quite enjoyed this song over the last few years?

omahaid

And One Direction are still alive? There is no god!!

Brendog

Not sure if death of Troll guy is a Troll.

Pedant

That only lives Limp Bizkit (Keep Trollin'). Where do the years go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnFIRc0k6E

Deus Ex Machina

Pedant wrote: »

That only lives Limp Bizkit (Keep Trollin'). Where do the years go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnFIRc0k6E

A veritable hape o' **** aside Mr Khil's masterpiece in fairness.

Biggins

Funny how he became world famous in the latter years.
Hope it made him some money in his later years.

cml387

Aww sh!te.

RIP. I hope he goes to heaven in that lovely brown suit.
St Peter would say: "Are you the trololol guy?".
On answering the affirmative, he would gain admittance.

I am for some reason really sad about this.

Sarky

Trolololo.

Biggins

cml387 wrote: »

...I am for some reason really sad about this.

Its hard not to raise a smile at his singing.

RIP Eduard Khil.

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Eduard Khil, known to most Western audiences as Internet star “Mr. Trololo,” died early Monday in St. Petersburg after suffering a stroke in April. He was 77.

Khil, a baritone who was popular in the 1960s and '70s in what was then the Soviet Union, received a number of awards during his career, including the People’s Artist of Russia honor, but it wasn’t until a 1976 TV performance surfaced online in late 2009 and hit big in early 2010 that he enjoyed international fame.

“The death of the exceptional singer, Eduard Khil, is an irretrievable loss to Russian culture,” Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday in a statement expressing his condolences. “He was truly a people's artist. Several generations of people loved his songs not only in this country but also abroad.”

That notorious TV clip -- described by the Ministry in 2010 as “the high-speed freeway chase of music videos” -- was uploaded to YouTube in November 2009 and later renamed “Mr. Trololo original upload,” according to the Know Your Meme website. The original upload has notched almost 12.5 million views, with copycats racking up millions more.

The baritone learned of his newfound fame courtesy of his grandson, according to a St. Petersburg journalist who knew him personally.

"From his grandson he learned that T-shirts and mugs with his image had become available in the West, and he joked that he never earned a kopeck from them," Mikhail Sadchikov told the Associated Press on Monday. "He was also very optimistic, positive and ironic at the same time."

The kitschy (and oh-so-catchy) wordlessness of the Trololo song, more properly known in rough translation as “I Am So Happy That I’m Finally Coming Home,” interestingly had its roots in Cold War-era history. After the original lyrics about a cowboy riding his horse home in Kentucky didn’t fly with Soviet censors -- it’s unclear if the ban was official or unofficial -- the words were turned into vocalizations instead.

And decades later, a star was born.

A civil funeral will be held at a theater in Moscow, Khil’s son Dmitry told the Voice of Russia. He’ll be buried at Smolenskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg -- while “Mr. Trololo” lives online in perpetuity.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/le-et-mg-eduard-khil-dies-trololo-singer-dead,0,2846975.story

BeatDGodM0D

cml387 wrote: »

Aww sh!te.

RIP. I hope he goes to heaven in that lovely brown suit.
St Peter would say: "Are you the trololol guy?".
On answering the affirmative, he would gain admittance.

I am for some reason really sad about this.

Then he'd unscrew the door handle from the inside.


(troll-face)

im invisible

Heres a truck stop instead of St. Peter's, yeah yeah yeah yeah

;/)

LaVail

I hear epic sax guy will attend the funeral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6Jx6CwOCU

Pride Fighter

RIP

Loved Mr. Trololo, what a legend.

Ruski

Goodbye comrade Khil.

smash

I think boards need an RIP section at this stage.

4zn76tysfajdxp

smash wrote: »

I think boards need an RIP section at this stage.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1360

mikom

Elijah Scary Symphony wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1360

RIP rip section.....