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I guess his death can't go unrecognised here: he was very influential upon my music choices back when I was a teenager in the late seventies. I hated punk, so moved my appreciation to his (and...

John Miles also wrote some great ballads, but this song was his only hit (at least in the UK and, I think, Australia)

1976 was in the time of punk rock and, in somewhat a reverse rebellion, the...

Rock musician John Miles has died at the age of 72, his family have confirmed.


Was it really 1976? How time flies. I was in my mid-teens then, and remember it well from then, and now.
A lovely...

At that age, no-one dies from "COVID-19 complications".

They die from other things, like old age or cancer or strokes or Parkinsons or breaking a hip or blood diseases or other illnesses. If...

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies aged 80. The following is copied & pasted from press sources:


Musician’s publicist says he died peacefully in a London hospital surrounded by his...

Well he was indeed a Star! Thank you Devo_stevo for bringing his name to the Bogley fore.

Rob

It was far more than a "greatest" fear for Collins...it was more of a likelihood of failure (you mention 50%; most gave it a much lower chance of success). Fortunately, it worked out better.

Rob

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 dies aged 90

https://e3.365dm.com/21/04/2048x1152/skynews-michael-collins-armstrong_5359167.jpg?bypass-service-worker&20210428174856
A very humbling interview:
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The Queen's Consort, Prince Philip (aka Phil the Greek) has left the building just two months short of his 100th birthday.

Despite me not liking him much, I did like the way he wasn't frightened...

Mary Wilson


https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/6022c5883d879bcfdcd6aa47/2:1/w_2560%2Cc_limit/Mary-Wilson.jpg

Pierre Cardin has departed this mortal coil.

Fashion designer of some note (but not to my taste). 98 years old; not a bad inning.

POS? What is that please Byron?

I met him briefly once in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, back in the early or mid-nineties or thereabouts. I found him to be the most supercilious arrogant git that I'd ever had the displeasure of meeting.
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I met him once. He said: "Rob, you're a shite, for shore eyesh"

Best Bond actor ever. Very, very good on "The hunt for Red October"

Well he didn't get up this morning with that feeling :roll:. Stunning guitarist all the same.

A great loss.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54443394

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Eddie Van Halen formed Van Halen in the early 1970s in Los Angeles, with his brother Alex as the drummer, David...

Diana Rigg has died aged 82.

Aka Emma Peel in "The Avengers" , she was also the only woman to marry James Bond.
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I liked him in "Cocoon" (comedy) and "The Firm" (Serious) [Grisham is a great Author] but had not seen Wilford Brimley in "The Natural"; I'll look it up. Thanks.

A good life.
Thanks, savanna3313, for the correct spelling of her name!

How do you turn a duck into a Country & Western singer? Heat it up until it's bill withers.

Bill Withers lost aged 81
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52155227

I saw his death reported on the UK news this evening. He appears to have had that issue that makes the eyes shuffle rapidly sideways; but it evidently did not affect his ability to sing great songs....

Darwinism at work

The UK has left the EU (thank goodness)

Actor Stephen Moore (aka the"Paranoid Android" in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) has died aged 81

"I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..."

Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96.

Famous for his operatic directorial film work.

Infamous for putting a 15-year old girl in a topless scene.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48648278
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