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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #150 on: December 19, 2016, 01:25:07 am »

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #151 on: December 19, 2016, 06:44:28 am »

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #152 on: December 19, 2016, 08:19:49 am »

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #153 on: December 20, 2016, 05:54:50 am »

Rabbi Lionel Blue. BBC Radio 4’s Thought For The Day. One of the few things I missed when I left the UK for Australia
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #154 on: December 20, 2016, 08:55:06 am »

Hi I am so pleased to see that someone else was thinking about Lionel Blue.
There is an obituary on radio 4 this evening at 9 :30.
I always listened to his 'Thought for the day' in the morning and he was obviously well thought of by the presenters on radio 4 as he was part of a news item yesterday and on thought for thought for the day this morning.
Loved his jokes and way with talking to people.
Yes, will miss him.
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #155 on: December 24, 2016, 10:33:12 am »

I heard today that Terry Westrop passed away last week some modelers here may have known or heard of him from the model aero scene he was a World Champion pattern flyer in the 70's and 80's and produced some of the best pattern flying kits around in those days. He was always featured in Radio Modeller and Aeromodeller magazines he and Ken Binks who went over to radio sailing and still very competitive were the guys I admired in my flying days.


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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #156 on: December 24, 2016, 03:53:06 pm »

 
Rick Parfitt of status quo. ......rip





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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #157 on: December 24, 2016, 04:17:20 pm »

Oh sugar no more Quo ......Rip


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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #158 on: December 24, 2016, 04:57:01 pm »

They weren't going to tour anymore Stavros, they had already decided that at the end of the last one. Rick was already ill and was finding it too hard to carry on. Besides, Francis Rossi was 68 not so long ago! Even the last tour ended with them being an acoustic band (on stools)  as they were finding it too hard to carry a 2 hour gig rocking out.

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #159 on: December 24, 2016, 07:25:39 pm »

I saw the Quo at the Aberdeen exhibition center in the mid 1990's and they rank up there in my top 4 live bands ( and I've seen a lot of bands.. ) , some people said 3 chord songs weren't rock... erm no as anyone who's seen them live will tell you they were rock ( although I think they thought of themselves as more a heavy blues band , incidentally if you'd ever said to Lemmy from Motorhead that his music was heavy metal you'd have been punched he called his brand of music rock and roll and if you've ever heard the acoustic version of ace of spades you can see its really a rock and roll blues song )

Its been a hard year for the music industry and entertainers in general , saw yesterday that Carrie fisher ( Princess Leia in Star Wars ) collapsed with a massive heart attack on a flight to LA and is in intensive care in hospital so we have to hope the grim reaper spares her
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #160 on: December 24, 2016, 10:53:47 pm »

OK.  Enough.  No more please.  Can those feeling poorly please wait until next year now.  This is spoiling my Christmas!


Played some Quo to remember how they were.  I think Francis Rossi will keep going and I wish him well but it won't be the real McCoy.  Get down, deeper and down!


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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #161 on: December 25, 2016, 07:54:22 am »

After having a heart attack and not breathing for 10 minutes, I fully expected Carrie Fisher to be on this list by now.

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #162 on: December 25, 2016, 11:38:36 pm »

RIP  George  michael of Wham fame....boy oh boy is 2016 going iut with a bang.


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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #163 on: December 26, 2016, 11:17:30 pm »


Topic tidied up.

We drifted off topic quite a bit there..... which is understandable considering George Michael's lifestyle choices ......   {:-{
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #164 on: December 26, 2016, 11:20:26 pm »

 
BBC:  'Royle Family' actress Liz Smith dies - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38440648

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #165 on: December 27, 2016, 10:29:50 am »

44 CELEBRITIES WHO HAVE DIED THIS YEAR AS A LIST.....
1) David Bowie
2) Actor Alan Rickman died aged 69 on January 14.
3) Eagles frontman Glenn 1) Singer David Bowie died aged 69 on January 10.
Frey died aged 67 on January 18.
4) Broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan died on January 31 aged 77.
5) Author Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird, died aged 89 on February 19.
6) Actor Frank Kelly, who played Father Jack in the comedy series Father Ted, died aged 77 on February 28.
7) Coronation Street creator Tony Warren died aged 79 on March 1.
8  ) Nancy Reagan, actress and former first lady of the United States, died aged 94 on March 6.
9) Beatles producer Sir George Martin died aged 90 on March 8.
10) Magician Paul Daniels died aged 77 on March 17.
11) Comedian Ronnie Corbett died aged 85 on March 31.
12) This Morning agony aunt Denise Robertson died aged 83 on March 31.
13) Sherlock Holmes actor Douglas Wilmer died aged 96 on March 31.
14) Drugs campaigner Howard Marks, known as Mr Nice, died aged 70 on April 10.
15) Reality TV star and music producer David Gest died aged 62 on April 12.
16) British playwright Sir Arnold Wesker died aged 83 on April 12.
17) Comedian Victoria Wood died aged 62 on April 20.
18) Superstar singer Prince died aged 57 on April 21.
19) Television writer Carla Lane, known for The Liver Birds and Bless This House, died aged 87 on May 31.
20) Boxing champion Muhammad Ali died aged 74 on June 3.
21) Singer Dave Swarbrick of folk band Fairport Convention died aged 75 on June 3.
22) Anton Yelchin, actor in Star Trek, died aged 27 on June 19.
23) Comedian, Royle Family actress and writer Caroline Aherne died aged 52 on July 2.
24) Ken Barrie, the voice of Postman Pat, died aged 83 on July 29.
25) Kenny Baker, who played droid R2D2 in the Star Wars films, died aged 81 on August 13.
26) Gene Wilder, who played Willy Wonka and other memorable roles, died aged 83 on August 28.
27) Former Israeli president Shimon Peres died aged 93 on September 28.
28) Former Coronation Street actress Jean Alexander, who played Hilda Ogden, died aged 90 on October 14.
29) Raine Spencer, the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, died aged 87 on October 21.
30) London-born fashion designer Richard Nicoll died aged 39 on October 21.
31) Jimmy Perry, screenwriter known for shows including Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum, died aged 93 on October 23.
32) Singer, songwriter and television personality Pete Burns, who founded pop band Dead or Alive, died aged 57 on October 23.
33) Sir Jimmy Young, who hosted BBC radio programmes for half a century, died aged 95 on November 7.
34) The death at 82 of Canadian singer, songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen, who penned the classic song Hallelujah,  on November 11.
35) The Man From U.N.C.L.E star Robert Vaughn died aged 83 on November 11.
36) Musician Craig Gill, drummer of Madchester band Inspiral Carpets, died aged 44 on November 22.
37) The death of West End star Keo Woolford, 49, who starred in The King And I opposite Elaine Paige and in the television remake of Hawaii Five-O, was announced on November 30.
38) The death of comic actor Andrew Sachs, 86, best-known for playing Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers, was announced on December 1.
39) Peter Vaughan, who starred in Game Of Thrones and Porridge, died aged 93 on December 6.
40) Musician Greg Lake died aged 69 on December 8.
41) Sunday Times journalist AA Gill died aged 62 on December 10.
42) Hollywood actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor died aged 99 on December 18.
43) Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt died aged 68 on December 24.
44) The death of George Michael, 53, was announced on December 25.
 

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #166 on: December 27, 2016, 05:45:56 pm »

Cripes  <:(
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #167 on: December 27, 2016, 05:53:23 pm »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38446309

Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96



This year has been very bad for entertainers....
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #168 on: December 27, 2016, 06:03:28 pm »

http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/

Just been confirmed that Carrie Fisher has passed away , not a huge surprise after not breathing for ten minutes and having a massive heart attack , 2016 takes another entertainer.....
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #169 on: December 27, 2016, 06:05:37 pm »

And author Richard Adams of Watership Down fame.

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #170 on: December 27, 2016, 06:10:19 pm »

Just announced Carrie Fisher.  Tbc
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #171 on: December 27, 2016, 06:11:55 pm »

Now confirmed.  Princess leah is dead.
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #172 on: December 27, 2016, 06:40:02 pm »

lets not forget the 4 lads in the group Viola Beach and their manager who were killed in a horrendous car crash in Sweden in February.

they might only have been young and up and coming starlets, but everyone has to start somewhere.

no drugs or alcohol was found in them at all. And they were good at what they did...sadly cut down in their prime.

but what  MORBID lot we are. It's as though we are all just hanging around waiting for the next one to fall............hope it's not me.

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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #173 on: December 27, 2016, 07:28:38 pm »

Jim, I think it is a case that so many of the people who passed away this year were icons and celebrities in the correct sense. The latter word is of bandied about when it should not be. Can David Bowie and a woman with a fat posterior be compared in any way?

I suppose that rather than being morbid, we are becoming almost expectant that someone we cherished and/or respected for their contribution to our lives will pass away. Sadly people of all ages pass away wether they be infants with complications or an elder of the family, and it is the same with the people who passed away this year. Some were frankly too young and had lots more to give, while others had a great innings, and their work will be remembered with fondness. I hate the thought that Lennon was cut down in his prime, but his legacy and that of the Band he formed is larger than the individual, like Bowie, Jimmy Perry and even Kenny Baker!

The way we lost Viola Beach is so redolent of how we lost Buddy Holly. Died far too young and had such potential (Admittedly Holly was further down his career but he was by no means a long way into his career)
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Re: RIP in 2016
« Reply #174 on: December 27, 2016, 07:55:15 pm »

I presume Brian (Reply 169) that this is your personal list as there are many more listed on this thread. Eric 'Winkle' Brown, Fidel Castro, John Glenn, Ian McCaskill and Jock Moffat to mention a few.

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