Voltron Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 (edited) RIP Mr Jaffee. Plenty of youthful hours spent reading Mad magazines. Edited April 11 by Voltron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swt61 Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 RIP Mr. Jaffrey. I remember MAD fondly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 RIP, Al Jaffee. You brought so much joy into our lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robm321 Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 RIP, Al Jaffee. Definitely a staple in my childhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin gilmore Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 RIP, Ahmad Jamal age 93 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 RIP to another legend. I'm seeing age 92 fwiw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 RIP Harry Belafonte https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/entertainment/harry-belafonte-death/index.html 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullguise Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 (edited) Shit....another legend (on and off the stage!)....RIP Harry. Edited April 25 by skullguise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiSam Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Wow...that's a loss. What a class act. Godspeed, Mr. Belafonte... HS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Damn, a class act. RIP Mr. Belafonte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swt61 Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 RIP Harry Belafonte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 RIP Harry Belafonte. What a legend! But not too shabby an innings at 96. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Or maybe she is just getting old. If Mercury had lived, he would now be 77! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted April 28 Report Share Posted April 28 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted April 28 Report Share Posted April 28 12 hours ago, Grahame said: RIP Jerry Springer. No 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Voltron Posted April 29 Report Share Posted April 29 Weird first post in a very long time. Hey Wayne 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wmcmanus Posted April 29 Author Report Share Posted April 29 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. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 RIP Gordon Lightfoot at age 84. Much of his music defined the 70's, certainly for me. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 (edited) Aww man. Same here and did a ton of relistening during the pandemic. Thanks and RIP. Edited May 2 by blessingx 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullguise Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 Love him, so much great music. Incredible writing and musically so wonderful. RIP to yet another legend! 😥 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swt61 Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 Gordon Lightfoot was one of the great singer songwriters. Kristofferson, Chapin, Lightfoot... R.I.P. Gordon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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