RIP Mr Jaffee. Plenty of youthful hours spent reading Mad magazines. 

Edited April 11, 20233 yr by Voltron

RIP Mr. Jaffrey.

I remember MAD fondly. 

RIP, Al Jaffee.

You brought so much joy into our lives.

RIP, Al Jaffee. Definitely a staple in my childhood. 

RIP, Ahmad Jamal  age 93

 

RIP to another legend. I'm seeing age 92 fwiw.

RIP Harry Belafonte

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/entertainment/harry-belafonte-death/index.html

Shit....another legend (on and off the stage!)....RIP Harry.

Edited April 25, 20233 yr by skullguise

Wow...that's a loss.  What a class act.

Godspeed, Mr. Belafonte...

HS

Damn, a class act. RIP Mr. Belafonte.

RIP Harry Belafonte.

RIP Harry Belafonte. What a legend! But not too shabby an innings at 96.

The woman friend that Freddy Mercury left his Kensington home and all contents to in his will, is selling everything at auction. She said in an interview on R4: "it is time to put my affairs in order" which kind of implies that she has some serious health condition. She wants to sell things now rather than someone else (probably an executor) sell everything later.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/26/freddie-mercury-collection-of-splendid-things-up-for-auction

Or maybe she is just getting old. If Mercury had lived, he would now be 77!

RIP Jerry Springer.

BBC News - Jerry Springer: Era-defining TV host dies aged 79
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65415348

Without whom we would not have 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer:_The_Opera

 

 

 

 

On 4/26/2023 at 5:16 AM, Craig Sawyers said:

Or maybe she is just getting old. If Mercury had lived, he would now be 77!

Or maybe she read a book.

12 hours ago, Grahame said:

RIP Jerry Springer.

No

Weird first post in a very long time. Hey Wayne 

1 hour ago, Voltron said:

Weird first post in a very long time. Hey Wayne 

Hey, what can I say? Hope you're all doing well. 

RIP Gordon Lightfoot at age 84. Much of his music defined the 70's, certainly for me.

Aww man. Same here and did a ton of relistening during the pandemic. Thanks and RIP.

Edited May 2, 20233 yr by blessingx

Love him, so much great music.  Incredible writing and musically so wonderful.  RIP to yet another legend! 😥

Gordon was a complex one for me.  I grew up during the age of angry punks and metalheads who were reacting against "boomer rock."  His style of music was the least hip thing imaginable around the time I got my first Walkman.  In spite of that environment, I always liked his songwriting and his incredibly distinctive singing voice.  As is often the case, Gordon Lightfoot wasn't actually a boomer (1938, Silent Generation.)  I remember hearing "Sundown" on the radio when I was quite young and finding it captivating.  It was many years (which are big ones when one is so small) before I had an artist song title I could attach to it.  It's apocryphal/not proven, but the lyrics to the song are often described as referring to the woman who indirectly killed John Belushi.  That adds a whole additional weight to an already quite dark song.

Also I've noticed that younger generations (later Millennials and Zoomers) seem to unironically (as they say) like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."  I remember a few years ago someone posted a graphic illustrating how lake Superior had its own weather systems to reddit and a bunch of users there wrote out the entire lyrics to the song, one comment  at a time.  That's some lasting impact right there.

Gordon Lightfoot was one of the great singer songwriters. 

Kristofferson, Chapin, Lightfoot...

R.I.P. Gordon.