RIP Avicii (Mod warning in op)

I'm shocked. RIP. Loved 'Levels'. His Eurovision 2013 opening ceremony music was great too (collaboration with one of the guys from ABBA.) 😢

I’m old enough to be his mother but I have to say I got a terrible shock when that news came over the news tonight at 7pm in the car in my way home from work.

My first thoughts were, he must be only a young fella.

28 that’s so sad.

Some of the behavior here is from people clearly not aware of life or their surroundings or living in a bubble. .

people seriously don’t know who he is?

The most played song over the past few years, on radio, tv, ads, everywhere?

Then the other bit about people disrespecting his work.

Have you ever when someone dies go “ah well he was crap at his job.”
Coukdnt have been that crap to be that successful.

Pack of begrudgers.

RIP.

Sad to hear.anyone who ever turned on a radio would know his songs.and they were the kind of music you would listen to no matter what you were at or what mood you were in.easy listening.rip to him

So sad, incredible talent. I'm shocked by this news. 28 is too young. RIP

Genuinely shocked and saddened by this. Not the biggest edm fan but he had some catchy tunes, and seemed like a sound man in general. RIP.

My 14 year old Niece heard it tonight and she was like "What the ****"??

I knew the name Avicii but didn't know what he'd done so I just youtubed him there. Of course straightaway I recognised loads of the songs from having the radio on at work. Not my cup of tea but was obviously popular so fair play to him. Just a young fella.

I'm more shocked to hear about David Carey as mentioned earlier. I don't have kids but always enjoyed his parenting slot on Moncrieff. Just seen his picture on the independant.ie website. Would never have put it with his voice. He sounded a lot older than he looked !

RIP to both.

RIP

Poor kid, another awesome talent lost

dd972 wrote: »

If it's what I suspect it is, then it's pretty sad that someone with millions in the bank wasn't able to think about taking serious time out for rest and to review their situation, that said the human mind being what it is can be distorted by depression to the extent that no amount of money or acclaim can pull it back from 'the brink' or what feels like 'the brink' to some people, never heard of him until today but a shame, RIP.

I doubt this was a suicide if that's what you're thinking, he had some serious health scares over the last few years due to extreme alcoholism and it sounds to me like either (a) he relapsed into binge drinking despite needing to let his body recover, or (b) he damaged his body so much in the past that even after ostensibly giving up on the sesh altogether last year, it was already too late and his organs were unable to sufficiently recover.

In that context, the millions in the bank may have actually contributed somewhat. I mean, many people with serious, imminently health-damaging substance abuse issues are limited only by inability to fund their ongoing binges. If someone has developed an alcohol dependency a la say Shane MacGowan, being as incredibly wealthy as Avicii probably means that you just keep buying booze and drugs, without anything to actually stop you doing more.

Speculation obviously, but that's been my theory all evening anyway. He had acute pancreatitis at some stage last year which is why he gave up the live performance scene, and it was reported at the time that this was directly related to extensive drug and alcohol use over a long period of time. Seems more likely to have been related to this than anything else.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I doubt this was a suicide if that's what you're thinking, he had some serious health scares over the last few years due to extreme alcoholism and it sounds to me like either (a) he relapsed into binge drinking despite needing to let his body recover, or (b) he damaged his body so much in the past that even after ostensibly giving up on the sesh altogether last year, it was already too late and his organs were unable to sufficiently recover.

In that context, the millions in the bank may have actually contributed somewhat. I mean, many people with serious, imminently health-damaging substance abuse issues are limited only by inability to fund their ongoing binges. If someone has developed an alcohol dependency a la say Shane MacGowan, being as incredibly wealthy as Avicii probably means that you just keep buying booze and drugs, without anything to actually stop you doing more.

Speculation obviously, but that's been my theory all evening anyway. He had acute pancreatitis at some stage last year which is why he gave up the live performance scene, and it was reported at the time that this was directly related to extensive drug and alcohol use over a long period of time. Seems more likely to have been related to this than anything else.

Even amongst hardcore alcoholics, it's still pretty uncommon to die from it at 28. If other recent celebrity deaths are anything to go by, I'd say pills were involved. Such a waste

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God I feel old and out of touch, never heard of this lad but always terrible to hear of someone so young pass. Age 28 has taken many a great artist.

Same here, although I had heard the Wake Me Up song.
I actually thought it was a Mumford and Sons number.