The Dearly departed....

Steve · 22-11-2017 2:06am

RIP Malcolm Young.

Founder of AC/DC and legend of the rock world.

beer enigma · 22-11-2017 11:13am

David Cassidy aged 67 - "At his peak, David Cassidy was the world's highest paid live entertainer, and his official fan club was the largest in pop history -- exceeding Elvis Presley and The Beatles COMBINED."

OldGoat · 22-11-2017 11:27am

My missus is heartbroken. She grew up in South Africa at a time when music was ... limited. David Cassidy was a major influence in her youth as his was one of the few outside influences to pass the scrutiny of the apartheid regime.

garancafan · 30-11-2017 2:13am

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone. Age 55.
https://youtu.be/CmpBCyxQ0Bs

Jellybaby1 · 30-11-2017 8:53pm

garancafan wrote: »

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone. Age 55.
https://youtu.be/CmpBCyxQ0Bs

Actually never heard of him but words fail me, except for.......Wow! Wish I had.

beer enigma · 06-12-2017 12:38pm

Profumo Affair's Christine Keeler dies at 75

Big news in the day

https://news.sky.com/story/profumo-affairs-christine-keeler-dies-at-75-11157992

Johnboy1951 · 06-12-2017 9:25pm

beer enigma wrote: »

Profumo Affair's Christine Keeler dies at 75

Big news in the day

https://news.sky.com/story/profumo-affairs-christine-keeler-dies-at-75-11157992

Yes indeed it was big news.

I recall a rumour around that time of both Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler attending a party in a house in Woodstown Co. Waterford.

garancafan · 07-12-2017 12:59am

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Yes indeed it was big news.

I recall a rumour around that time of both Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler attending a party in a house in Woodstown Co. Waterford.

Mandy would have, wouldn't she?

cml387 · 11-12-2017 6:40pm

Keith Chegwin has died after a long illness, aged 60.

The first thing that comes to mind is his appearance, as himself, in "Extras", consistently fluffing his appearance in When The Whistle Blows to Rick Gervais' increasing exasperation.

Jellybaby1 · 12-12-2017 12:03am

Gosh, sorry Keith Chegwin is gone.

beer enigma · 20-12-2017 12:38pm

Heather North passed away last night.....who is she ?, well she voiced Daphne in Scooby Doo from 1970 to 2003.

Aged 71, she's gone to the big scooby snack in the sky

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-01-2018 10:56pm

US astronaut John Young, who flew to the moon twice and commanded the first ever space shuttle mission, has died aged 87. He was the only person to have flown missions on the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programmes.

roundymac · 08-01-2018 11:54am

Peter Sutherland former EU commisioner.

Rubecula · 15-01-2018 9:06pm

two sad deaths today

Dolores O'Riordan the lead singer of the Cranberries.

Cyril Regis the footballer.

Jellybaby1 · 15-01-2018 9:09pm

Don't know much about Dolores O'Riordan but have heard of her. Cyril Regis is definitely one I remember very well as at his peak I was big into watching football. Sad indeed.

Rubecula · 16-01-2018 11:12am

here you are JB x

Jellybaby1 · 08-02-2018 12:55am

Sorry to hear that John Mahoney has died, aged 77. One of the great characters in Frasier. I have recently been watching the series from the first season and now am on series 8.

spurious · 24-02-2018 11:00pm

Emma Chambers, who played Alice in 'Vicar of Dibley' has died, aged 53.
How sad. R.I.P.

Rubecula · 24-02-2018 11:02pm

spurious wrote: »

Emma Chambers, who played Alice in 'Vicar of Dibley' has died, aged 53.
How sad. R.I.P.

very funny young lady

Jellybaby1 · 26-02-2018 12:51am

She was the best character in Dibley, loved her to bits. So sad she's gone.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-03-2018 3:29pm

Sir Roger Bannister. A true giant, legend and gentleman.

BBDBB · 04-03-2018 8:34pm

Sad news, I used to tell the story of Sir Roger Bannister at the end of a course I used to run.
His achievement after his own personal failure at the previous Olympics and against the scientific/medical advice that was prevalent at the time. Man CANNOT run a mile in less than 4 minutes, he will die trying, it is impossible. Other runners also saw it as an impossible barrier though several were trying.

He did it that afternoon and within 18 months about 20 other runners were also able to break the 4 minute barrier. Why? Before Bannister, no-one can do it, suddenly because he showed it was possible, other runners took a look at themselves and thought, well if he can do it, I can do it. If thats not teh very definition of an inspiration I dont know what it is.

An incredible man whose legacy will live well beyond his own passing

RIP

Jellybaby1 · 14-03-2018 12:42am

No one else has so I will. Ken Dodd has left the building. Those angels don't know what's they're in for!!!!! Hope he didn't forget his tickling stick.

red sean · 14-03-2018 9:19am

Stephen Hawking gone too.

OldGoat · 14-03-2018 9:55am

Genuinely saddened to hear of Hawkings passing. A man of letters and a man of wit.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-03-2018 10:19am

OldGoat wrote: »

Genuinely saddened to hear of Hawkings passing. A man of letters and a man of wit.

I'm so sorry to see him go. A colossus.

Rubecula · 14-03-2018 1:34pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

No one else has so I will. Ken Dodd has left the building. Those angels don't know what's they're in for!!!!! Hope he didn't forget his tickling stick.

wonderful man, generous to a fault with time and money, and truly a comic genius.

red sean wrote: »

Stephen Hawking gone too.

great man despite his poor health during his life.

joeysoap · 14-03-2018 1:42pm

Liam o’Fylnn. He made the Uilleann pipes sound beautiful. R.I.P

Johnboy1951 · 14-03-2018 1:45pm

joeysoap wrote: »

Liam o’Fylnn. He made the Uilleann pipers sound like beautiful. R.I.P

I had not heard

RIP Liam Óg

One of the great pipers!

0lddog · 16-03-2018 12:55pm

Many obits. and reminiscences have been published in recent days

For example : https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/garech-browne-thank-you-and-sorry-and-goodbye-1.3428164

For me, his death marks the end of an era.

His brother, Tara, died in a car accident in the '60s. This is said to have inspired The Beatles 'A day in the life'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Dh-I0_m5Y

Steve · 16-03-2018 11:43pm

Hawking had a sense of humor till the end.

A truly great man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcC6FYyL4U

Jellybaby1 · 31-03-2018 10:38pm

Bill Maynard has passed away. They never repeat his episodes of Heartbeat. We were very fond of his character Greengrass. Wonder if they will repeat them now. He did a good Selwyn Froggett too!

Poor Uncle Tom · 02-04-2018 3:12pm

Steven Bochco 74, American TV writer and producer, (NYPD Blue, LA Law and my all time favourite Hill Street Blues) I always imagined him as being older.

beer enigma · 04-04-2018 2:58pm

Ray "Butch" Wilkins - Chelsea, Man Utd, Rangers and England aged 61

Sad loss

DeBurca · 05-04-2018 1:08am

Selwyn Froggatt "Tragic"

Poor Uncle Tom · 06-04-2018 8:23am

Eric Bristow, 5 times world darts champion, I still can't believe he was only 60.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-04-2018 9:07am

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Eric Bristow, 5 times world darts champion, I still can't believe he was only 60.

As I said on another thread about him,

At least he went on a triple 20.

I always thought him a gentleman, cocky but good fun.

Jellybaby1 · 06-04-2018 10:19am

Sorry to hear that. Far too young to leave. I used to watch a bit of darts in his heyday but I lost interest in it. There were a lot of showmen around the game then, it seems a necessary thing in certain games. Don't know what it is like now.

joeysoap · 06-04-2018 2:42pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Sorry to hear that. Far too young to leave. I used to watch a bit of darts in his heyday but I lost interest in it. There were a lot of showmen around the game then, it seems a necessary thing in certain games. Don't know what it is like now.

It’s Las Vegas with all the bells and whistles now. And walk on girls.Practically wiped snooker off the map.

Sorry to see the Crafty Cockney gone , he too was among the early stars I remember , Alex Higgins, Jockey Wilson, sadly both gone now too

And the old joke. Players throws his darts, first two double twenties, but third one bounces off wire and rickochets into the audience, hitting a nun on the head. And the commentator declares ‘one nun dead and eighty’

Poor Uncle Tom · 14-04-2018 8:54pm

:eek:

Ray Thomas 76, gone since early January, serious shock!

Jellybaby1 · 25-04-2018 11:28pm

Dale Winton passed away a few days ago. He wasn't one of my favourite TV presenters but his life was so sad I just thought he should be remembered here anyway.

Jellybaby1 · 01-10-2018 10:06pm

I understand, no one wants to be in this thread, its too morbid. However. My 'art. Eet eez bro-ken. Charles Aznavour has left us, he was 94. When he sang........I.......melted!

New Home · 01-10-2018 10:21pm

Geoffrey Hayes from Rainbow also passed away.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/1001/999217-rainbow-presenter-geoffrey-hayes-has-died-aged-76/

Jellybaby1 · 01-10-2018 10:27pm

New Home wrote: »

Geoffrey Hayes from Rainbow also passed away.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/1001/999217-rainbow-presenter-geoffrey-hayes-has-died-aged-76/

Aw, that's sad. Poor Zippy, George & Bungle will miss him so much.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-10-2018 9:48pm

Peggy Sue has died.

Peggy Sue Gerron, the inspiration for Buddy Holly's 1957 hit song, has died in Lubbock, Texas, aged 78.
While she was the focus of the single, Peggy Sue was in fact in a relationship with Buddy Holly's band mate in The Crickets, Jerry Allison.
She and Allison would marry in 1958, inspiring Holly's song, Peggy Sue Got Married, released after Holly was killed in a plane crash in 1959.
Gerron died at the University Medical Center in Lubbock early on Monday.
Born in Olton, Texas, in 1940, Gerron grew up in Lubbock and went to high school with Holly and Allison.

New Home · 06-10-2018 12:01pm

And now, Montserrat Cabballé.

Jellybaby1 · 06-10-2018 11:39pm

And Ray Galton of Galton & Simpson fame, creators of Steptoe & Son.

DeBurca · 12-11-2018 10:16pm

Rip Stan Lee the creator of Spider-Man and so many other comic characters that were such a big part of my boyhood years

beer enigma · 15-11-2018 11:52am

John Wilson RIP, brought fishing to so many youngsters through his Go Fishing programme, passed away aged 75

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-11-2018 12:19pm

beer enigma wrote: »

John Wilson RIP, brought fishing to so many youngsters through his Go Fishing programme, passed away aged 75

He seemed so full of life and fun. R.I.P.

The Dearly departed....

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