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Famous peoples deaths that have shaken you up?
- Thread starter Return of the Rev
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happypig
Staring at the rude boys
John Peel
Joe Strummer
John Lennon
Joe Strummer
John Lennon
- Aug 7, 2003
- 7,800
JFK - I was playing under my grandparents billiards table at the time. Everyone was in shock.
Norman Potting
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Lady Di, not due to being a particular Royalist but mainly due to the circumstances. And I do think it was a genuine accident.
Although not an enormous Bowie fan listening to some his stuff today (including some I had never heard before) has left me thinking that I should listen to more of his output.
Would it be accurate to say that depending whether things occured pre or post Social Media may make a difference. As a huge Thin Lizzy fan I don't recall being upset at Phil Lynott's early passing.
Although not an enormous Bowie fan listening to some his stuff today (including some I had never heard before) has left me thinking that I should listen to more of his output.
Would it be accurate to say that depending whether things occured pre or post Social Media may make a difference. As a huge Thin Lizzy fan I don't recall being upset at Phil Lynott's early passing.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
This for me. It just seemed an impossibility on the race track at least, potentially the greatest driver who ever lived - it was unreal.
swindonseagull
Well-known member
None.......
5mins-from-amex
New member
Layne Staley for me, Alice in Chains are one of my favourite bands and when ever I listen to them I just wished he was still here making music.
Phat Baz 68
Get a ****ing life mate !
- Apr 16, 2011
- 5,023
Princess Diana without a doubt also had me very very angry too.
Prince Monolulu
Everything in Moderation
Without wishing to be supercilious in any shape or form I find it difficult unless I have met that particular person. I have wrapped myself in the glory of recently deceased persons' work but at the same time not turned it into a time for me where I 'cried my eyes out' since that will be happening with the close friends and family.
Death for famous folk and artists should be treated with respect and celebrated for what they have contributed and left for us to enjoy for eternity, not for me to wear black and feel sorry for myself.
That happens far to often with folks I know only too well.
Death for famous folk and artists should be treated with respect and celebrated for what they have contributed and left for us to enjoy for eternity, not for me to wear black and feel sorry for myself.
That happens far to often with folks I know only too well.
Respect
Really cut me up that did but famous?
Ish
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Buddy Holly
JFK
Lord Mountbatten
John Lennon
Diana
JFK
Lord Mountbatten
John Lennon
Diana
Eagle Slayer
Active member
Rik Mayall , Bob Monkhouse and David Rocastle
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
All of those were genuine shocks. Not sure how anybody could be that shocked by Marley or Mercury, they were terminally ill for quite a while before they died.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
Rik and John Peel
Del Fenner
Because of Boxing Day
Mao Tse Tung. What do you mean, fat debauched old despots aren't immortal?
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
JFK
Lennon
Diana
John Smith
Lennon
Diana
John Smith
Cosmic Joker
The Motorik
Cliff Burton, the original bass player for Metallica. It was 1986 I was 19 and mad about rock music and they'd burst into prominence with "Master of Puppets" and I'd become a big fan of theirs through that and their two previous albums. In September I saw - with my brother and friends - them do a storming gig at Hammersmith Odeon, one I hoped would be the first of many times I saw them. Cliff was a cool dude on bass, who made a virtue of having no image and not seeking the limelight. A few short days later their tour bus skidded off the road in Sweden in the middle of the night, Cliff was thrown from his sleeping bunk out of a window and the bus landed on him, killing him right away. He was 24. Just brutal. I was relieved when the band decided to carry on, but would have understood if they couldn't.
That's probably the one that "shook me up" the most, but others that have affected me, possibly more than I thought they would were, Kurt Cobain, John Peel, Robin Cook, Elizabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), Rik Mayall and recently Lemmy - although he had a very good run for someone with his lifestyle so it was sadness at loss of an icon not shock - and today Bowie.
That's probably the one that "shook me up" the most, but others that have affected me, possibly more than I thought they would were, Kurt Cobain, John Peel, Robin Cook, Elizabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), Rik Mayall and recently Lemmy - although he had a very good run for someone with his lifestyle so it was sadness at loss of an icon not shock - and today Bowie.