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Die young to become a legend ?



T soprano

T soprano

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Oct 27, 2011
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Would MONROE , JAMES DEAN , BUDDY HOLLY , ELVIS & JOHN LENNON have become iconic legends if they hadn't died in their prime , if you take a look at PAUL MACCARTNEY most people ridicule him these days and say he's shite but if he'd died at 40 would he have become a legend and LENNON become a boring old fart ?
Or on another note who would you class as a living iconic legend ?
 




Stoo82

Stoo82

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Jul 8, 2008
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People take this piss out of McCartney but I am sure when he goes he will fall into the aboslute legend catergary.
 




Triggaaar

Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005
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T soprano said:
Would MONROE , JAMES DEAN , BUDDY HOLLY , ELVIS & JOHN LENNON have become iconic legends if they hadn't died in their prime
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Monroe - no, Dean - maybe, Holly - yes, Elvis - yes, and he didn't die in his prime - Lennon, same
 






wallyback

wallyback

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Jun 22, 2011
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jeff buckley - the biggest loss to music ever, because there was so much to come. Amazing singer, guitarist and composer. I'm looking forward to the movie, when eventually it gets made
 




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CliveWalkerWingWizard

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Aug 31, 2006
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wallyback said:
jeff buckley - the biggest loss to music ever, because there was so much to come. Amazing singer, guitarist and composer. I'm looking forward to the movie, when eventually it gets made
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Like father like son ! An absolute phenominal talent. But who goes swimming with boots on ?
 






beorhthelm

beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
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Triggaaar said:
Monroe - no, Dean - maybe, Holly - yes, Elvis - yes, and he didn't die in his prime - Lennon, same
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i'd go with that. Elvis was a icon in his own life time. Lennon you only have to see the idolisation of McCartney (despite alot of boo boys), Dean would have been "just" another actor like all the other famous, idolised actors. Monroe was a bit of an also ran really.
 






DavidinSouthampton

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Living iconic legend - BB King?
 


Bwian

Bwian

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Jul 14, 2003
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Winifred Zaha died a death last Sunday and he hasn't become a legend.
 






DavidinSouthampton

DavidinSouthampton

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Died before his time - Sam Cooke. What a voice and what a singer.
 




wallyback

wallyback

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Jun 22, 2011
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T soprano said:
Others
Sid vicious
Phil Lynnot
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Marley
Kurt Cobain
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Sid vicious - I don't think so - I adored the pistols- but sid , bless him, had almost zero talent
. Did a nice vocal on something else. The others Had their time. Jeff had one album.. his dad was talented. But was on a downward slope, wasting his talent.
 


HovaGirl

HovaGirl

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Jul 16, 2009
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Monroe, Elvis and Lennon were already living legends when they died, as was Paul McCartney at the time of Lennon's murder. I can't comment on Dean and Holly, because they were slightly before my time and I knew nothing about them. Greta Garbo was also a living legend but she gave up films and lived as a virtual recluse, keeping well out of the public eye, so she maintained her legendary statu, even as an old woman. Paul McCartney has kept in the public eye, and few who weren't around in the 60s and 70s would fully appreciate just how much he contributed to British music, and still does. But because he's still in the public eye, and tries to keep a youthful look, youngsters see him as ridiculous. But Lennon and McCartney will go down in musical and social history on a par with the likes of Beethoven or Mozart while JLS will just disappear, like so many others.
 








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