Obituary Thread

[Old Frightful]

Double post.

Edited July 28, 2021 by Old Frightful

[voteronniegibbs]

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Edited August 6, 2023 by voteronniegibbs

[distantdog]

27 minutes ago, voteronniegibbs said:

Dusty Hill, ZZ Top bassist.

Sad, saw ZZ top a few times. Always enjoyed the show.

[Futtocks]

Ron "set it and forget it" Popeil, founder of Ronco, who made many convenience products, some of which actually worked.

[Mumby Magic]

On 27/07/2021 at 22:06, metallithrax said:

https://variety.com/2021/music/obituaries-people-news/joey-jordison-slipknot-dead-dies-1235028746/

 

Joey Jordison - Slipknot drummer aged 46.

Good drummer. Only like a couple of Slipknot songs but he played along side Metallica at some events. 

[Trojan]

On 27/07/2021 at 14:07, DavidM said:

Very sad , I enjoyed watching him bowl as a kid . Nice action and very accurate . He induced so  many plays and misses

Couldn't bat, said he didn't see why bowlers had to bat!

[DavidM]

Thoughts and best wishes are with him

[metallithrax]

11 hours ago, Mumby Magic said:

Good drummer. Only like a couple of Slipknot songs but he played along side Metallica at some events. 

Donington 2004, Joey Jordison and Dave Lombardo played most of the set when Lars Ulrich was in hospital.  An amazing show considering the way it had to be pulled together.

 

Also, Dusty Hill of ZZ Top

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58006978

[Mumby Magic]

Candy Davis - Are u being served MND

[Futtocks]

25 minutes ago, Mumby Magic said:

Candy Davis - Are u being served MND

I never made the connection between her and her pen name as the crime writer Mo Hayder 'til now.

[graveyard johnny]

7 hours ago, Mumby Magic said:

Candy Davis - Are u being served MND

the ultimate dream girl for every teenage boy of that era - damn that awful disease!

[Futtocks]

Una Stubbs.

[Hugh Jarce]

4 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Una Stubbs.

Genuinely sorry to read this on BBC News alert, she seems to have been always been around during my childhood.

 

[Futtocks]

The 8th of the 12 people referenced in Half Man Half Biscuit's God gave us Life to pass away.

[DavidM]

I watched her on Wurzel Gummidge and Alf Garnett , there’s a contrast

[Shadow]

2 hours ago, DavidM said:

I watched her on Wurzel Gummidge and Alf Garnett , there’s a contrast

I thought of her in Give Us A Clue, Sherlock and Summer Holiday.

All in all quite a wide ranging career

[Leeds Wire]

 

 

[JonM]

That's quite a shock - in my head, she was in her thirties forties. I guess that's what comes of watching 90s videos on youtube.

[Irish Saint]

Rest in Peace Nanci thank you for all your concerts in Belfast  during those years when very few others included Belfast on their tours.

 

[Old Frightful]

Very sad news about Nanci Griffith.

I love watching and listening to famous people on programmes like "Desert Island Discs" and hearing why they chose a particular song and what it means to them. Jim Bowen was on one of these types of programmes and he chose "From a distance" by Nanci.

He said that many people have covered this song but Nanci Griffith made love to it.

A lovely tribute.

 

[Futtocks]

Footballer Gerd Muller: https://fcbayern.com/en/news/2021/08/fc-bayern-mourns-the-passing-of-gerd-muller 

[DavidM]

Der Bomber 

[Futtocks]

5 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Der Bomber 

Log-legs, long before Kieron Cunningham. For a short guy, he outjumped a lot of tall defenders.

[DavidM]

1 minute ago, Futtocks said:

Log-legs, long before Kieron Cunningham. For a short guy, he outjumped a lot of tall defenders.

Just reading his stats they’re incredible 

[Futtocks]

Comedian Sean Lock, aged 58.